Inside The World's Biggest Starbucks In Japan

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My bucket list ✨

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/cardiovasculars 📅︎︎ Jun 24 2019 🗫︎ replies

It looks so magical in there, and I would love to go visit one day!

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Jun 24 2019 🗫︎ replies

Karen walks in and is upset she can’t get her over complicated grossly sweet Frappuccino that she always says wasn’t made correctly. Orders an espresso martini, says she wanted it blended and freaks out when she finds out there actual alcohol in it.

But in all seriousness this place looks awesome! Would love to go someday.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/musiconthewind 📅︎︎ Jun 25 2019 🗫︎ replies
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This is the world's biggest Starbucks. At 32,000 square feet, it's a four-story Roastery overlooking the Meguro River in Tokyo, Japan. Now, we're pretty lucky that it's quite quiet here at the moment, because when this place first opened three months ago, it had a five-hour-long queue, and you needed a ticket to get in. We've come to try some of the unique coffees they have on the menu and check out their one-of-a-kind tea and cocktail bars. Let's go inside. The site opened on February 28, 2019, and it's close to the subway stops of Shibuya and Ebisu. So how does it measure up to the others? It overtakes the 30,000-square-foot Roastery in Shanghai. The company has just three other Roasteries: in Seattle, Milan, and New York City. On the second floor is the Teavana tea bar. Here, you can buy tea, as well as getting some brightly colored hot drinks and cream sodas. On the third floor is the Arriviamo bar, serving wines, whiskeys, and cocktails. The espresso martini here is made with chestnut liqueur. Then at the top is the AMU Inspiration Lounge hosting barista training. It's really beautiful in here for a coffee shop. There's an origami ceiling that sits above the entire Roastery, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the man behind the main host stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. There is a long terrace running around the outside of the building. It overlooks the Meguro River, where cherry blossoms grow in the spring. The menu here has over 100 items, 60 of which are unique to Japan. The coffee is made in a similar way to other Roasteries. At the base, the beans are roasted in a 17-meter-tall copper coffee cask. They're transported via glass and copper tubes that snake through every floor. More than 680,000 kilograms of coffee will be roasted here for the Japanese market, approximately 31 60-kilogram bags every day. While other Roasteries might focus on espresso, the Tokyo Starbucks prides itself on its specific way of serving Americano. This is the Americano con Crema, which has a cinnamon-infused foam and a line of demerara sugar. That might look like ice cream, but it's actually whipped milk. This is signature low-fat milk for the Roastery here. The brown sugar mixed in with it is, yeah, the flavor of the milk is, like, absolutely gorgeous, with coffee coming through. The ground-floor bar has filter coffee, coffee presses, and cold-brew taps. There's a whiskey barrel-aged cold brew and this nitro cold brew. So in any Irish pub in the UK, you can obviously get Guinness, and this looks like a Guinness, and this has got a bit of a beer flavor about it. Tastes a little bit Guinnessy. If you like Guinness, then you'll really like this. This being Japan, the cafe takes pride in serving tea. There are 15 different types of tea-related drinks and desserts, with unusual ingredients. This is turmeric cotton candy. So this is a chai tea at the bottom, and then on top of it, it looks like you've gone to the fun fair or something, because there's actually a really big pillow of turmeric cotton candy on the top of this. But I'm gonna have to get in to the drink somehow, which means going into it with these chopsticks. Wow, that whole thing has just evaporated inside of the coffee. All of the sugar from the cotton candy has gone straight inside that chai latte, so now it's just like something I might pick up at another Starbucks, turmeric latte. The cocktail floor looks just like a regular bar. There's a selection of Japanese whiskeys here, as well as international spirits. The espresso martini is made with chestnut liqueur, which gives it an extra sweet edge. So what did we think after our visit? It's true that you can't go two blocks in Tokyo without seeing a Starbucks. They are everywhere, as Japan has over 1,400 locations, but it's definitely worth a trip to here to have a cold brew and sit on the terrace, even if you have to wait a little while for a seat.
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Channel: Food Insider
Views: 1,001,469
Rating: 4.9243393 out of 5
Keywords: martinis, cold brews, japan, cream soda, espreso, INSIDER, UK, cocktails, Video, roastery, whiskey, tokyo, FOOD INSIDER, japanese coffee, Original, coffee, starbucks, starbucks coffee, shanghai reserve roastery
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Length: 7min 6sec (426 seconds)
Published: Sun Jun 23 2019
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