please empty your brain below
Prefer Costas myself.

Brian Harris | 15.09.05 - 8:36 a.m. | #

I don't get why people will pay the amount Starbucks and the other coffee places charge when they can get an equally c**p cuppa in the local greasy spoon cafe for 50p. It's why places like that fish bar you talked about close down.

Emma | 15.09.05 - 9:34 a.m. | #

I don't think I've ever been in a Starbucks.... but presumably it's just a matter of time. Very sad indeed.

dg writes: NiC - you'll be glad to know there are (currently) no Starbucks within 5 miles of your house, and that your nearest outlet is in Islington.

NiC | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 9:44 a.m. | #

Great one! ROTFL.

Rick | 15.09.05 - 10:25 a.m. | #

I can recommend their Mexican Bean Wrap with Mushroom Salsa. I don't drink coffee so don't visit too often (last two visits were both at airports).

Essexgirl | 15.09.05 - 10:58 a.m. | #

They do tea as well. And hot chocolate

Debster | 15.09.05 - 10:58 a.m. | #

Very amusing. It reminded me of the free tourist maps McDonalds used to give out which showed the centre of London with large Golden arches everywhere.

Oh, and if you'd walked the other way, Cannon St is similarly vandalised with Starbucks outlets. And 60 metres south of Ludgate Circus, theres another on New Bridge St and so on....

Michael | 15.09.05 - 11:30 a.m. | #

We have a Starbucks in the atrium of our offices! People go down there, three or four times a day and come back with overpriced double foam moccachino's or whatever the latest made-up sounds a bit like Italian but isn't crap they serve is. They probably spend over a fiver a day. I have a jar of coffee and a mug on my desk. I spend about three quid every two or three weeks.

Alan | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 11:35 a.m. | #

I can imagine this walk being seriously bad for your health. Nonetheless, I'm sure I've done something like it come tube strike day. Including coffee.

*buzz*

Nico | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 12:11 p.m. | #

I'd somehow never noticed there were quite so many of them around. Must be because I don't drink the stuff.

Ant | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 1:41 p.m. | #

Prefer Nero's. They actually put in two shots of coffee, not one. Thereby it tastes like coffee and not brown-flavoured milk.

quin | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 2:17 p.m. | #

Perfect.

(Our cafeteria at work 'proudly' serves Starbucks coffee. The tea is cr*p, that's all I know).

Katherine | 15.09.05 - 3:21 p.m. | #

i've been to starbucks once, on king's road. i thought it was rather nice - papers lying around to be read etc, but it appears that it's turned into some kind of an epidemic now.

i wonder how long it will be before there's one in brussels ...

zed | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 5:14 p.m. | #

If you live in America, you may appreciate this site which locates the nearest coffee-serving outlet to you which isn't Starbucks:
http://www.delocator.net

And all of you may be very scared by this link to someone whose life's ambition is to visit every Starbucks on the planet:
http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net/

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.09.05 - 6:21 p.m. | #

More than 20 miles to my nearest one - there are some advantages to living in a cultural wasteland!

Rob | 15.09.05 - 7:51 p.m. | #

I meanwhile have 106 within 5km...apparently.

Mark | 16.09.05 - 12:14 a.m. | #

I tought that there were one or two Starbucks in Melbourne - when I checked the website I was shocked to see that there are 16!!!!!

God knows how many there are in Sydney. They really are springing up at an alarming rate.

Carolyn | 16.09.05 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Not much has changed in three hundred years, except perhaps there is now more caffein in the sewer system than then. The coffee house conglomerate with one-name branding hadn't yet been invented either. http://home.att.net/~waeshael/coffee.htm

Cheryl | 16.09.05 - 9:32 p.m. | #

I apparently have 52 within 5km of my flat or 120 within 5km of my workplace. I think that reflects the Starbucks policy of saturation - they'll open so many branches in an area that not only do they kill all the competition, they poach custom from each other. Then they move on, like a virus.

In case you couldn't tell, I'm not exactly a fan. I'd rather not everywhere looked the same!

Dave Arquati | Homepage | 18.09.05 - 12:31 a.m. | #

Starbucks does have one (and only one) saving grace - their extra shots are the cheapest, the last time I checked, of all the high street chains. So while the default Starbucks offerings are poor value, once you add three or four extra shots into them they're not half bad at all!

(*buzzbuzz*)

Chz | Homepage | 19.09.05 - 11:48 a.m. | #











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