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Intelligentsia Coffee

Intelligentsia is a Chicago coffee roaster dating from 1995, known for direct-trade buying and for coffeebars in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, New York and Austin. It also runs coffeebars in South Korea and sells roasted coffee online and wholesale.

US locations
12Oct 2026 · location pages
Founded
1995
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Ownership
Subsidiary
Website
intelligentsia.com

Where Intelligentsia Coffee is

The chain's own location pages · Oct 2026
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Top states

  1. California5
  2. Illinois3
  3. Massachusetts2
  4. New York1
  5. Texas1

12 coffeebar entries with US addresses: Chicago 3, Los Angeles area 5, Boston area 2, New York 1, Austin 1. Excludes 4 Korean coffeebars and the roasting works and training labs the page flags as not retail.

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Not on file yet: outlet history, sales or revenue and a menu count. A gap means Intelligentsia Coffee has not published it in a source we accept, not that it is zero. How we source.