STARBUCKS
I haven't been in, but they usually follow the same model. Many non-coffee options, including seasonal iced beverages (coffee, tea, juices), sandwiches, snacks and pre-packaged salads. Mix of tables and lounge-type chairs and sofas.
If you go online you will see a tremendously large menu for all products.........coffee, teas, sandwiches , desserts etc. Don't know if they have a grill or microwave. They offer an alternative standard coffee as well as their primary house brand. Wi Fi is always good and now free. While entering the Mojave Desert just north of Barstow California , I realized it was Starship or nothing but sand and road runners for hundreds of miles. Any port in a storm. I thought their alternate coffee blend was fair to middling.
We were crossing the country West to East from Southern California, actually San Francisco to New Orleans.
We were frequently within eyesight of the Mexican border and were stopped twice by the Border Patrol.
I swear they are first cousins to Homeland Security which delights in holding me up every time I return to this country. My flower child insisted that we swing North through Utah in order to take in Zion National
Park.Somewhere along the line there. we hit a stretch where there was no coffee available for miles. I thought it was as we approached the lower part of the Mojave but it could have been before that.
All I remember was my daughter being buried in a book every time a road runner crossed our path.
Las Cruces to San Antonio soon enough. Texas west to East was forever. Finally New Orleans where the waiter put a sprig of parsley on my birthday cup cake. Stumbled into the Cafe du Monde and relaxed in the 200 per cent humidity. Later experienced the joy of a 35 hour long Greyhound trip to get home from the deep South..........not the first time but I was younger then.
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author said:
We were crossing the country West to East from Southern California, actually San Francisco to New Orleans.
We were frequently within eyesight of the Mexican border and were stopped twice by the Border Patrol.
I swear they are first cousins to Homeland Security which delights in holding me up every time I return to this country. My flower child insisted that we swing North through Utah in order to take in Zion National
Park.Somewhere along the line there. we hit a stretch where there was no coffee available for miles. I thought it was as we approached the lower part of the Mojave but it could have been before that.
All I remember was my daughter being buried in a book every time a road runner crossed our path.
Las Cruces to San Antonio soon enough. Texas west to East was forever. Finally New Orleans where the waiter put a sprig of parsley on my birthday cup cake. Stumbled into the Cafe du Monde and relaxed in the 200 per cent humidity. Later experienced the joy of a 35 hour long Greyhound trip to get home from the deep South..........not the first time but I was younger then.
ridski said:
peteglider said:
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Who knows?
Only the shadow and he is not telling. However my answer was in my usual long form. I took MI1's question "What Starbucks" to mean , where was it located? Now that I have paused for air I can continue featuring the best restaurants located within a few miles of Stonehenge. Let me check my notes.
Yes. I've been in Starbucks. Not great. Used to be better. But it's fine. Skip the food.
I've been three times! It's an OK Starbucks, with a big cavernous space and lousy accustics. Mostly big communal table space but a few comfy chairs and a long "couch" type space in the back with small tables. Better than Milburn Sbux, but not as good as South Orange's. The staff is VERY new and you have to be patient. I will go there to get computer work done and for coffee and an occasional egg-white, feta wrap. I will go back to Village Coffee for ice tea with lemon and omolettes and Able Baker for atmosphere.
sarahzm said:
ridski said:
peteglider said:
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Who knows?
Narcissism, combined with oral diahhrea
Ah, Sarah always so pleasant. Are you still buying your coffee in Maplewood Village, walking 750 feet through the train tunnel and across Dunnell Road to find one of the three closest benches? Or are you
settling for sipping your brew on the patio of Starship midst the on going construction. Nice view of Kings from there. Not giving yourself a pat on the back this week? Maybe you sprained your arm. rub some of the Starship coffee on it.......it must be good for something.
nan said:
I've been three times! It's an OK Starbucks, with a big cavernous space and lousy accustics. Mostly big communal table space but a few comfy chairs and a long "couch" type space in the back with small tables. Better than Milburn Sbux, but not as good as South Orange's. The staff is VERY new and you have to be patient. I will go there to get computer work done and for coffee and an occasional egg-white, feta wrap. I will go back to Village Coffee for ice tea with lemon and omolettes and Able Baker for atmosphere.
That is spreading the Euro's around. Village Coffee has switched to Fios and it is lightening fast. I could drop my WiFi and pick up theirs from my apartment....the owner does not mind......but with the Comcast
triple package I would not save any money.
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Starbucks is a place for people who don't like coffee to "get coffee".
We must have a ton of people in town who hate coffee if my visits are any indication (or the inflow around 9:30 this eve when I watched quite a number of folks from a perch in Ricalton Sq. while eating my yogurt).
ctrzaska said:
We must have a ton of people in town who hate coffee if my visits are any indication (or the inflow around 9:30 this eve when I watched quite a number of folks from a perch in Ricalton Sq. while eating my yogurt).
One of the best selling beers is Budweiser . Now Bud is also one of the cheaper beers so that young people when they begin drinking will frequently buy it. Unlike other beers Bud is brewed with a large portion of rice.
That rice taste is addictive. So that when people can afford more expensive beers...which don't have that rice taste they don't like it and return to buying Bud.
With the Starship main line of coffee there is a very similar situation. The taste is different than other coffees and causes them to seem inferior................notice I am skipping my usual insults about the taste.
Thus the Starship cult is born
Call me Ishmael
Author is the first person narrator of Moby Dick, but the new building is the whale in this version of the story.
Was Ishmael the one that couldn't just accept things and spent his life in the pursuit of vengeance? Or the one that later fought the cylons?
dave said:
Author is the first person narrator of Moby Dick, but the new building is the whale in this version of the story.
Dave you get a yellow star on your chart for that one . Now to find my Captain Ahab.
RobB said:
Was Ishmael the one that couldn't just accept things and spent his life in the pursuit of vengeance? Or the one that later fought the cylons?
The difference is that I am much better looking than either of them. Abercrombie wanted me to model but I felt much more comfortable in early Banana Republic clothing. Never went over big at work.
Gilgul said:
You buy clothes at a chain rather than a local store?
Now that I have found my style or lack thereof to the point of preferring to keep it simple like Grateful Dead
..............The internet works fine.
ctrzaska said:
We must have a ton of people in town who hate coffee if my visits are any indication (or the inflow around 9:30 this eve when I watched quite a number of folks from a perch in Ricalton Sq. while eating my yogurt).
Actually that is part of their marketing strategy. when you are the only game in town....where else do people go at that hour. Yes I suppose Coda would work or a few other places.......but going in there for just coffee would be awkward. Having said that I thought of the fact that Pub which would work.
Able Baker.....Palmers and Village Coffee are all closed.
I will agree with author that Starbucks brewed coffee is just too strong and bitter for me, but I love, love, love their cappuccinos and lattes. Mm mm. Once in a blue moon, an indulgence in a frappuccino in the summer or hot apple cider in the winter is sublime. If I had a glut of disposable income, I'd open a Starbucks in my backyard.
While I have never cared much for Starbucks' coffee, it is really sad that so many posters here ave nothing better to do than post super critical remarks about the company. If enough Maplewood residents do not like the place it will eventually close, but it doesn't deserve the blatantly stupid comments posted here. Don't you have anything better to do?
thechamp said:
While I have never cared much for Starbucks' coffee, it is really sad that so many posters here ave nothing better to do than post super critical remarks about the company. If enough Maplewood residents do not like the place it will eventually close, but it doesn't deserve the blatantly stupid comments posted here. Don't you have anything better to do?
You now decide and tell people on what subjects they can write. Interesting mindset. Also a form of censorship which fortunately is not tolerated in a free society.
marylago said:
I will agree with author that Starbucks brewed coffee is just too strong and bitter for me, but I love, love, love their cappuccinos and lattes. Mm mm. Once in a blue moon, an indulgence in a frappuccino in the summer or hot apple cider in the winter is sublime. If I had a glut of disposable income, I'd open a Starbucks in my backyard.
Don't give them any ideas...........they will follow up the back yard outlet with one in your garage.
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Has anyone been inside? I've seen quite a few tables occupied outside. I'm not a coffee drinker so doubt I'll enter although I could be curious. Do they offer many choices excluding coffee? Is it a spacious area?