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Place to PT @ 8:30am in Los Angeles?
bjphillips5
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No libraries in LA are open Saturday or during the week at 8:30 (even university due to summer schedules), though a few coffee shops are. So far I've been going to a library at 9:30a. Any recommendations for where to PT at 8:30 in LA?
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I don't think it's possible to get into Southwestern Law School (my Test Center) before hand, but maybe I'm wrong! Perhaps, I'll adventure there someday.
I'm pretty sure Intelligentsia over on Abbot-Kinney (Santa Monica?) is open, or any of the others for that matter. Always overrun with people in there so would really test your focus if you're in to that kind of thing. Abbot's Habit across the way has a little more seating where you might could find you a little nook away from the hustle and bustle. Handsome Coffee downtown should be open as well but I'm not really sure about them. Only been there once and it was relatively quiet. Anyway, if you want good coffee Intelligentsia and Handsome are both top 10 in the country.
(I live in somewhat backwoods in the South, so this is not meant to be derogatory in any way:)
So LA coffee, haha. It’s more coffee knowledge than LA knowledge, so you can hold your LA local pride intact @bjphillips5 ! Intelligentsia is big time. They only have maybe five stores but they’re internationally recognized as among the very best. They really were leaders in making coffee not suck, and the modern specialty coffee industry is kind of built on the model which they pioneered. They’ve since been surpassed by a couple of roasters in my opinion but they remain indisputably among the very best of the elites. Handsome was founded by Michael Phillips (formerly of Intelligentsia Chicago, actually) who was the first American to win the World Barista Championship. So it’s a must visit for any coffee enthusiast visiting LA.
Although in looking up how to spell Phillips, I just saw that Bluebottle bought up Handsome. So it’s a Bluebottle now. They’re out of Oakland and are as good as anyone. It’s not that they’re not worth a trip, it’s just there’s a lot of them. Glad I had the opportunity to go to Handsome while it was Handsome. This is happening a lot actually. The industry is conglomerating.
So it goes.
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