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Vegan and vegetarian restaurants are starting to become one of the regulars among sushi and Thai joints across Los Angeles neighborhoods. And on Thursday, Silver Lake got theirs with Flore Vegan Cuisine (additionally, Intelligentsia Coffee opened yesterday one block north). Veggies are rejoicing to once again eat owner and Chef Miranda's cuisine after selling Tierra Cafe last year in Downtown (which is still open under new management). She has now brought forth a vegan restaurant...

After much anticipation, this afternoon marked the opening day of Chicago's Intelligentsia Coffee in Silver Lake at their new Sunset Junction location. I've been looking forward to this opening since the announcement of their arrival some months ago, mainly because after falling in love with their bean roasts while on vacation in the Windy City last year, ordering bags of beans for home brewing via the internets was getting to cost me a pretty penny....

We are absolutely stoked beyond exuberance to report that the Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee is slated to initiate what EaterLA is calling their "West Coast domination" at an outpost in the Sunset Junction part of Silverlake in April. Why are we so damned excited? Because Intelligentsia's coffee rocks our face off, that's why. We got turned on to their beans last year on a jaunt to Chicago, and have indugled with ordering their wares online for home consumption; just a week or so ago we pulled the packing tape off just such a fragrant delivery and have been brewing their House Blend in our humble Mr. Coffee since then. The scoop on Intelligentsia: They roast all their own beans daily in vintage German roasters, and they take their coffee seriously. It's no so much about the bells and whistles of syrups and whipped creams and themed seasonal desserts-in-a-cup, but more about coffee at an artisanal level. We agree that Silverlake is the place for them; we just hope what we'll save in shipping fees will be worth the forseeable parking drama.