If you squint enough, you might see some red wings on those cups.
What does it take to bring an Intelligentsia coffee bar to New York?
Apparently, the exploits of a group of privileged teenagers as they trounce around the city during their freshman year of college.
Fans of the show might have noticed that a “Greenwich Village” Intelligentsia has become one of the focal meeting points in the new season of Gossip Girl, being featured in every episode so far.
While it seems the people who work on the show are fans of ours, there are definitely many of us here at the stores and roasting works who are fans of the show. In fact, when I started thinking of doing the whole Spotted category of blog posts, I may have taken some inspiration from a certain fictional website…
Those living in New York who want to try Intelligentsia, well, sorry — we don’t quite have a coffee bar there yet. We do, however, have an Intelligentsia training lab and a large number of excellent wholesale accounts serving our coffee. (I even hear there’s an ice cream truck out there that serves a mean affogato with our espresso.)
For now, the Greenwich Village Intelligentsia is fictional, much like the story lines on the show. But you never know — in the case of Penn Badgely and Blake Lively, when it comes to Gossip Girl, life has imitated art before.
I’m notoriously bad for seeing movies I want to see in a timely fashion. Somehow I end up going to the theater to watch the trainwreck that is Post Grad, but I can’t make it to any of the Apatow comedies that are on my list (any obsessive TV fan will understand the strange allure of Rory Gilmore falling in love with Matt Saracen, to the rest of you, that won’t make sense).