Starbucks Coffee

C, that's a great question about asking us if we remember the first Starbucks we visited. In 1989 when I moved to Seattle, I was a student at UW, and I think that the first Starbucks I visited might have been one on the Ave in 1989 or 1990 (store 305). But the one that made me a customer was, as you already know, the Oak Tree store (store 308). That's a long time ago and hard to remember!

Starbucks in B & N and ESPECIALLY in grocery stores/Target stores are usually not even remotely up to par with the regular Starbucks stores. It's sad. I won't even go to a SB in those places anymore because I've rarely had a good experience.

The only SBX in my rural area are the licensed stores, Kroger, Barnes & Noble. I have never been to a company-owned store. The one in the Marion IL Kroger is VERY good, the others are hit  & miss, mostly miss. Please put more company-owned stores in rural areas. We want a real Starbucks experience too!

Starbucks in Stamford, CT near Lord and Taylor

The only liscensed one I like is inside a Meijer. B&N I hate, yes I said hate. The WORST! Airports are hit and miss. Targets are ok. The other grocery stores(Kroger and VONS) aren't bad.

I *think* my very first Starbucks store visit was at Westlake Center. I was visiting my dad and he took me to WL, Pike Place Market and the Space Needle.

For the most part, I only visit company-owned locations if I can find one. This is because the drinks from licensed stores usually are of lower quality and the most obvious reason being the inability to use Starbucks Cards or Gold Cards.

The first store I ever went to is on Boylston St. in Boston near the Copley Mall. A nice store overall that had good staff - sourced from the colleges around that area. It is still there and does a good business I think, there a lot of offices near there and a convention facility.

The first Starbucks I visited was the one in Towson, MD, across from the Towson Town Center Mall. I still go there a lot, and its my favorite place to meet my son, a senior at Towson U.

The few times I have visited one in a grocery store have been disappointing - the quality and overall experience is far short of a stand-alone store. I wasn't able to purchase gift cards there, either.

I have tried B & N, but don't go to them anymore because they don't offer Tazo teas.

There is a big gap between stand alone stores and those in grocery and other stores. Its good for me that there are a lot of Starbucks in the Baltimore and Annapolis areas where I am daily, and I visit them several times a week for coffee meetings.

Wow...I love the "first" question. My first SB experience was probably at a store in Tacoma on Portland Ave. (right off I-5). I was in junior high then and my mom and dad wouldn't let me have coffee, but my mom DID let me sip a Valencia Mocha (which later became one of my favorite drinks). We used to go as a family on weekends after church--us kids would have hot chocolote and cream cheese Danish with cherries (wow--those were good!) and my parents would talk with us, catch up with friends, and read the paper. Good memories.

Minor correction (I haven't had my Starbucks fix yet!)--the store was off of 72nd Street and I-5. There's still a store there now, but it's moved closer to the road and now has a drive-thru.

Where's the results on the favorite brewed coffee?

I remember the first Starbucks I visted in Newport Beach, California. The Via Lido store. Convenient but too crowded to relax in.