It was just a little over one week ago that this blog took a trip to the Sloterdijk train station in Amsterdam, where the most recent Netherlands Starbucks opened in July of this year. We’re heading back to the Netherlands again, this time to see a few pics of other Starbucks in this country. As a reminder, in the Netherlands, all Starbucks are located either in the airport or in a train station, and the country has a total of about 8 Starbucks.
Here is the previous blog post on Starbucks in Amsterdam:
Starbucks in Sloterdijk, Amsterdam
The eight photos below were taken in a variety of the Netherlands Starbucks, and are provided courtesy of Sebastian, who is generously letting me use them for this blog. I don’t have too much to say, but I thought that a few readers might enjoying seeing more pictures of Starbucks in Netherlands.
Since this blog post is on the topic of store photos, and store experience, I wanted to recommend a few older blog posts that have been my very favorites on the topic of store design and experience:
- The First Starbucks – 1912 Pike Place – This blog entry takes you on a virtual trip into the Pike Place Starbucks, and it’s an uplifting store visit.
- Featured Starbucks – Store #101 Columbia Center – This blog entry takes you on a trip to a Starbucks that has an amazing history.
- Soup’s on at Children’s Hospital – A store review of a Starbucks INSIDE Seattle’s Children’s Hospital, and definitely a heart-warming store.
- Starbucks opens its first LEED store in Japan – A beautiful Starbucks in Japan
- Store review: Clover Starbucks in Sacramento – This is a very recent remodel and Clover store in Sacramento. It’s a beautiful large store, and a great friendly place to visit.
- Store review: Clover Starbucks in Gold River, California – Another beautiful Clover Starbucks in northern California, and for me this was a very fun experience because I got to make my own Clover coffee!
- Happy Birthday Pioneer Square Starbucks – A blog entry which is a tribute to the Pioneer Square Starbucks in Seattle – Nice pics of the Pioneer Square neighborhood.
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These locations are all so nice! I really like the big round store (second picture) and the pastry case looks so inviting! Thanks, Melody for sharing these pictures!
Wow I agree great pics and the design in non USA stores is so different and inviting. Wish they would pay more attention to the design for stores here in the USA.
Great thread!
Love the wooden counter the most I think! So warm and welcoming! (to me anyway…;))
@CABarista – I agree, it looks warm & inviting! Also like the wall with the photos of the farmers, and what looks like a nice little coffee plant on the counter. Thank you Sebastian & Melody for the wonderful photos!
Wow, I really really like the Hoog Centraal starbucks! It kind of looks like a log cabin! And the fool selection looks really good, I’d love to have that much choice for food here 🙂
That reminds me: I have yet to go inside a Starbucks in France. I’ve seen some in Paris, but didn’t purchase anything from the stores (was too busy sight-seeing).
I really enjoyed the last picture; for some reason, that Starbucks really seems to resonate with me. I’m not a Starbucks or coffee person, but I do like the architecture of it.
I checked out the Japanese Starbucks, and the 1912 Pike Place Starbucks articles; I must say, before I could help myself, I found that I was reading them all the way down to the end. Well done, Melody. 😛
Here is one more pic from where I work every day 🙂
Schiphol Amsterdam Airport Lounge 1
http://twitpic.com/f9gh5
@Kaori That store in Utrecht looks like that because in that location there used to be a Swiss-themed café and they kept the wooden structure for the Starbucks store 🙂
@Renee
Ahhhh…thanks! Too bad that I couldn’t visit this store at Lounge 1 cuz I did not have a boarding pass. DAMN!
I just moved from Amsterdam after living there for four years.
Amsterdam is where the roasting plant is located for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Green coffee beans arrive from origin country to Rotterdam (one of only 3 places in the world where green coffee is shipped). It then gets moved by container ship to Amsterdam for roasting, packaging, and distribution.
The Starbucks locations that exist in the Netherlands are through partnerships, none of these are company owned/operated. Not that that makes a difference… (but sometimes it does). There is often a dramatic difference between the experience/quality you find in an airport location than your home town street-side location.
The Dutch are very excited to have Starbucks there – they love their koffie!