The Starbucks 3 Coffee Conundrum: Pike Place Special Reserve/ Pike Place Blend/ Pike Place Roast
In Seattle, whether the skies are a cold grey or bright blue, there is a street called Pike Place, running north-south through a small market area. It is not called…
Starbucks Via Ready Brew earrings & enthusiasm
When I first heard Starbucks was launching instant coffee, I was skeptical and suspicious. After trying it, hot and cold, I came around. I don’t know how it happened, but…
Roy Street Coffee inspired by Starbucks: Meet the neighborhood!
[[Update December 2009 – I wrote a second “Roy Street Coffee” blog entry here which posted the day before it opened. I went to a media preview event the Tuesday…
My Siren: 1987 to 1992 – 3 very special Starbucks (#340, #350, and #101)
Ask yourself, what do the Starbucks at Lynnwood Square, (#350) Crossroads Mall (#340) in Bellevue, and the Columbia Center (#101) all have in common? If you answered that these three…
If Beans Could Speak … The Clover Coffee Experience & the tale of the Starbucks Black and Tan (Episode #1, very late 2007 to August 26, 2008)
It is time for a blog entry on the delightful world of the Clover Coffee brewer. The Clover Coffee Brewer has been around as a part of Starbucks for at…
Store Review: North Bend, Washington & Melody’s Via Taste Challenge
This weekend is the Via Taste Challenge weekend, and so I can’t pass up this opportunity to visit a new store and do the challenge. For those who don’t know,…
I’ll take a “double grande” Starbucks passion tea lemonade please. (Cold drink sizes, tall, grande, venti, double grande)
This post is the kissing cousin to the tea menu featured a few weeks ago in this blog. At the same time that Starbucks experimented with whole leaf in their…
The magic of Starbucks Aged Sumatra whole bean coffee
The endangered Sumatran tiger roams – close to near extinction – on this hot, moist, tropical island where lush Sumatran pines, rhododendron, and bamboo color the landscape. This small Indonesian…
Catching up with Winter: In conversation with a guy on a journey to visit every company-operated Starbucks
I caught up with Winter at 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea today who was passing through Seattle to visit 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea, and then heading up to Canada. …
Starbucks schwag: It’s so cool. (or possibly dorky but I’m okay with that) (OPEN thread)
At the 2009 annual meeting of shareholders, Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company, said this: “One of the things I recently read is that Starbucks Coffee Co. is not…
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