It’s been quite a few months since I have featured the Starbucks coffee gear store! If you are ever visiting Seattle, don’t miss this store. It’s one of a kind! The Starbucks Coffee Gear store is a store full of interesting and unique Starbucks-branded items. It’s open to the public. You can visit Monday through Friday, normal business hours. To visit, go to the Starbucks Headquarters at 2401 Utah Avenue South. Take the elevators to the 8th floor. You’ll find the store immediately to your right, as you exit the elevators.
Here’s the address again:
- Starbucks Coffee Gear store
2401 Utah Avenue South, 8th floor
Seattle, WA 98134
One of the cutest new things at this store are these new little tasting cups:
And who wouldn’t want to sport an umbrella that says Starbucks on it?
Here are just a few more pictures. I also really like the cute little Starbucks Siren coasters.
Starbucks partners (Starbucks calls their employees “partners”) can order coffee gear merchandise through the online Coffee Gear store. It looks like there are a couple of funny t-shirts which are only online item at the partner-only online store.
Customers (or partners) can also buy coffee gear items at StarbucksStore.com. What’s interesting is that there are a couple of items on the StarbucksStore.com site that I don’t remember seeing in the store when I was just there. I must’ve somehow missed them! The bamboo logo iPhone case and the black logo journal are items that I don’t recall seeing while I was in the store! At the StarbucksStore.com site, I noticed that the logo hoodie has gone on sale. I am very tempted to get one!
I hope you enjoyed this short visit to the Starbucks Coffee Gear store! What’s on your wishlist? (You can click on these photos to make them larger).
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Nice update Melody. In some ways although it would be a bit chaotic, I wish they would sell some of these items in stores especially for those of us not near Seattle.
Did the little tasting cups have handles? The little black tasting cups they have in stores now do not have handles. They get super hot too fast and are actually hard to use for tastings. 🙁
on my wishlist?
everything! <3.<3
@Kurt – There were two versions of the new tasting cups. One had the Siren logo, and does have a handle on it. The one that has a pretty star design (kind of like the MSR star pattern) does not have a handle. The one with the stars just charms the heck out of me, but the logo one with a handle is probably more practical.
I do like the little ones with the stars. I already have a couple of the handled versions. Ask them if you can take a cup down to the shop in the lobby for a heat test before buying. 🙂
Would love to be able to be in this store! or, even able to order from it online? I have the little “Onward” tasting cup, with the silver siren (I think from last yr) and also the 3 oz ‘demi’ cup with handle. love them….and there’s SO much more in this store I’d love to get my hands on! 🙁
This would be like Niketown (here in Chicago, on Michigan Ave) used to be for me in the ’90’s. That store was just heaven for me. And now, looks like this store might feel the same, or close at least.
Love this blog post, wish we had something like this in the UK. Such fantastic merchandise! 🙂 enjoying your blog as always!
That umbrella looks nice! (You kept thinking of umbrellas on rainy days like now. LOL) About the items that are on the Starbucksstore.com that you didn’t find in the store, I’m sure they’re new items, one of them is the bamboo logo iPhone case. Nice to see that there are great discounts on Starbucksstore.com now too, one of it is the logo hoodie. But too bad that the Pike Place T-shirt is no longer available. Maybe there are nice new caps & T-shirts too at this coffee gear store?… =)
I CANNOT wait for the ornaments!! Does anyone know the first day the Christmas merchandise launches in the US? I have to get that gold cup ornament I saw a glimpse of!!!
@Hayley – I saw the ornaments on StarbucksStore.com, and was blown away. I have been waiting, but I probably will do a blog post just on this year’s ornaments – the best they’ve been in several years!
I just jumped over from this thread and peeked at the holiday collection on starbucksstore.com and the stuff does look much better than years past. @denise r – what do you think of the bear this year? I think it’s an improvement.
I personally really like the pixelated Rodarte tumbler. Might just have to buy one or two of those…
And I’m sure a lot of people will love the SWAROVSKI coffee cup ornament (but of course maybe not the price.)
@CD: re the bear….well, at least there is one, and it’s not the ‘recession’ bear (altho maybe they will soon need to make one 🙁 I don’t know that I’m too crazy about it but definitely more elaborate, and closer to yrs past, than the recent one. I know those guys (the n.crkers) are a big collector item so maybe they’ll be a hit for those folks. Personally, I still wish for the old days of the pairs, all dressed up for whatever holiday or season. My niece (now 40y.o.) has quite a collection of those prs that my sister and I bought her thru the yrs. I’m glad she’s got them….plus the occasional odd ones….like a Windy City bearista bear! (don’t know WHY I ever sent that one to her. ha! because she’s out of state and her mom, like me, grew up in the city and she’s much younger than I am…that’s why of course!)
@denise r – I remember the pairs. Remember the Victorian pair? They even made a large one that year – maybe 24″?
I’m a UK partner, I wish coffee gear was available to us so bad!!