What is driving me crazy, though, is that last week sometime, I had a conversation with someone that went kind of like this:
“Did you hear? Intelligentsia is opening up this new, excessively-pretentious-sounding store in Venice. With hydraulic pods or some shit.”
“Really? Wow. I heard there’s some place where you can get some kind of donut-infused coffee.”
“That is so amazing that it can’t possibly be real.”
But this morning I learned that it is real. But I cannot for the life of me remember who I had this conversation with so I cannot share the joy. Which is driving me crazy.
But, anyhow, apparently the process for making donut-infused coffee is actually to first make donut-infused milk, which you do by soaking donuts in milk. So I am going to do it myself. I figure, if you use skim milk, it will be like eating donuts, only not as bad for you.
ANYHOW, in other Excellent Coffee News, yesterday I found the Most Perfect Coffee Shop Ever: It is purple on the inside, plays jazz, has paintings of pinup girls, has lots of cute boys with beards hanging out, and MOST IMPORTANTLY: it has a brie and avocado melt. Sadly it is in Echo Park, which means I cannot walk there. The only coffee shop in walking distance to my house is the shitty uncomfortable one with weird Tibetan chairs that are low to the ground and very tiny tables that I always bruise my knees on.
I am going to write another blog post about things other than coffee, but first I need to finish reading my pretentious French feminist theory.
Lamill appears to charge $15 for some of its cups of coffee. And even I, I who was trained by the finest coffee ninjas in Canada, am completely unable to decipher most of their beverage menu. WE MUST GO THERE AND CHALLENGE THEM.
is this Echo Park coffeehouse the Downbeat Cafe? Lauren used to live across the street from it, and we’d go there all the time. I miss it.
Yes, it is Downbeat Cafe and I love it so much! It’s not that far away – we should go there together sometime!
I don’t even know what I think about LA Mill. I have been refusing to go there because it looks too stupid but now that there is donut coffee I might have to recant and at least go just once. WHEN ARE YOU COMING TO HELP ME CHALLENGE THEM??? You should bring Kate Whatserface along and she can make them a Brazilian Fog and they will cower in fear.
Yep. It was me. I know strange things about fancy coffees.