IntelligentsiaJust when you think you’ve mastered Starbuck coffee lingo, Sunset Junction’s Intelligentsia coffee shop introduces a graduate level of vocabulary including words like chemex, single-origin Clover brews and ristretto. A Chicago based company, Intelligentsia prides itself on using only coffee beans in season (just like your local farmers’ market produce), on-site roasting and boycotting [...]

The Good Luck BarYour fortune will be looking up after a visit to the Good Luck bar, a long time staple of Sunset Junction nightlife. The Good Luck is a red cacophony of Chinese artifacts and paper lanterns (fitting as red is the color of luck in Chinese culture). The bar opens up to opium [...]

Pazzo GelatoCrazy for Coco-Pops? Sure, why not. Crazy for gelato? Oh yes, most definitely. Pazzo (crazy in Italian) Gelato serves up hoards of people in the Sunset Junction everyday that can’t get enough of their creative gourmet concoctions. Flavors like lavender white chocolate, strawberry basil, pineapple cardamom, mimosa and chocolate martini (made with Valrhona [...]