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If you're cramming for a test, need a post-dinner pick me up or want a Paul McCartney CD between the hours of 5:30 and 8:30 tonight, you'll have to go somewhere other than Starbucks. Nearly all of the coffee chain's locations will be closed for a company-wide education and training session for employees. Dunkin' Donuts just happens to have a promotion running today and will be giving away free lattes. Our favorite quote in the Trib's story comes courtesy of Frances Allen, Dunkin' Donuts' brand marketing officer: "We never want any customers to ever be denied access to their specialty drinks." You tell 'em, Ms. Allen. Let's draft a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Frappuncino availability.
If you want a quality hot beverage this evening that you don't mind paying for, we recommend opting for Intelligentsia (the Millennium Park store is open till 8 and Broadway till 10). Talking Heads' frontman and all-around awesome guy David Byrne agrees with us. On a recent trip to Los Angeles he stopped by Intelligentsia's new Silverlake location and prounounced the coffees "incredible. This seems to be common knowledge — the place is filled with hipsters waiting patiently to order." Absolutely.
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Like the post, and the graphic is great, but you probably meant "imminent", right?
I see it was just corrected :)
Dammit! Where else can I go write my screenplay?
sweet. i totally scooped chicagoist on this story on my blog (if you don't count the trib). also, why is everyone so gay for intelligentsia? lavazza is so much better.
How has no one linked to this yet?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28657
on the dunkin site it says the lattes are 99 cents, i just saw a tv ad that says they're free..
We need more Lavazza's. To bad their existing locations are scarce, and hours suck. They would wipe the slate on taste if given the same presence Starbucks/DD's enjoys.
Starbucks is ok in a pinch, but getting my espresso from a true Italian source is my preferred choice ;-)
Lavazza > (Intelligentsia + Illy + Starbucks + Caribou) IMO
Lavazza does brew some of the best drip coffee I've had in the city. They are also one of the few cafes that manages to get my Americano right most of the time. Dunkin and Starbucks sell dirty dishwater and dirty dishwater with steamed milk. Weak, bitter swill indeed.
What about the great Argo Tea?!
What about the great Argo Tea?!
tea? go back to england, jeeves.
It's what you like, I guess. I'd suggest the Bourgeois Pig Cafe, instead.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/bourgeois-pig-cafe-chicago#hrid:MzgMMBxeUMUdQJZ1fyRY1w
The Millenium Park place seems a little too yuppified and touristy for my tastes. Sure, the Pig has the Rachael Ray was here banner outside, but you get inside and its the same neighborhood place it always was.
Oh, and peteypants - the Irish drink tea, too. You might want to be careful with that line in this town. :)
Oops. I see that urls don't create links on this site. Maybe this will work?
Those Yelp Reviews I just tried to link to
Yes, it seems to.
I know I'm the only person on Chicagoist who reads that rag, the Redeye, so I thought I'd point out that some-time Chicagoist poster, Mandy O'Reilly, was quoted in today's edition regarding the Starbucks closings. Classic...