Starbucks stores around the world are serving up espresso drinks and coffee in over 25,000 convenient locations. Some of these locations are destinations that have made adaptive reuse of existing architectural buildings or have created special spaces with cool aesthetics and beautiful design.
Several lists have highlighted many of the coolest Starbucks spaces around the world:
The 10 Most Beautiful Starbucks Stores In The World (@ Business Insider)
The World’s Coolest Starbucks (@ Huffington Post)
Top 10 Beautiful Starbucks Locations in the World (by Kristan Manning @ ppcorn)
20 Cool Starbucks Stores From Around The World (@ Lifebuzz)
The 10 Most Romantic Starbucks Locations in the World (@ The Date Report)
Cool Beans: The World’s Most Startling Starbucks Stores (@ Web Urbanist)
The Most Over-the-Top Starbucks Around the World (@ Elle Decor)
And for those of us that travel mostly domestically in the United States (USA) like myself, it’d be useful to have a handy list of cool Starbucks locations where you can get an extra shot of inspiration from the Starbucks-branded third place. Here are cool Starbucks destinations in the USA: [in no particular order]
Las Vegas Grand Bazaar
Highland & Willoughby @ Los Angeles, California
Starbucks Tukwila Drive Thru Store @ Seattle, Washington
Ketchum, Idaho
Canal Street @ New Orleans, Louisiana
- in a Wells Fargo bank lobby @ Orange, California
- by mission @ San Juan Capistrano, California
- Downtown Disney @ Anaheim, California
- Rancho Palos Verdes, California
- Starbucks Universal Studios Hollywood
- Presidio National Park, San Francisco
- Peachtree Street in Atlanta
- Jamaica, Queens, NY
- Chelsea Neighborhood of New York City
- 771 Broadway in New York
- 1142 Madison Avenue in New York
- 10 Waverly Place in New York
- 18th and H, Washington, DC
- Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
- 1730 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC
- at George Mason University @ Fairfax, Virginia
- Austin, Texas
- Breckenridge, Colorado
- Denver, Colorado
- Columbia Tower @ 701 5th Ave, 40th floor, Seattle
- 239 King Street, Charleston, SC has a really neat bank vault in the back as their storage room [ht: ceneff]
- 2106 E Victory Dr., Savannah, GA has beautiful stained glass windows [ht: ceneff]
[Update Sept. 2020] More beautiful Starbucks locations in their list of Starbucks virtual backgrounds.