BFF asked Ai to go out for a drink today, and I asked her where she was, and if she'd found some little bar. She gave me a "I'll wait for you at Starbucks."
How can Starbucks sell alcohol?
Later I realized I was wrong, Starbucks really opened a flagship store with a bar, right in front of Beijing's Qianmen Square, near Tiananmen Square, and the flagship store, called Beijing Square, actually made itself into a bar.
Since about the wine that will quickly move it, after the subway, found that the neighborhood Starbucks is really more, at first by the Zheng Yangmen Starbucks cheated, but also want to say that this Starbucks is really good, full of Chinese style. Into the sit half a day found that this place and ordinary Starbucks no difference ah, and later realized that this is not the flagship store, embarrassed ......
Walked to the flagship store of Beijing Square, found that this and ordinary Starbucks is not the same, super large, even three floors!
It's perfect for taking pictures and sending them to friends, and the weather was better on Tuesday (I'm tired and haven't written the food link yet, so I'll make it up to you tomorrow). The queue is really big, make people doubt that they went to Disney.
This queue is really more than an hour, the big sun put me are about to heat up, suggest that everyone just opened these weeks or do not go to the hustle and bustle ......
In the queue, through the window, found that the flagship store's cups of the variety is really a lot of good full ah, through the window in the heart of the heart lit up a trace of I want to spend money on the enthusiasm.
Lined up for more than an hour, finally went in, almost to the line when the girlfriends just came, hum! This guy said to invite me to drink! Actually just want me to help her queue it ！！！！！ The whole first floor is a regular Starbucks and peripheral vending area.
First floor Starbucks Select
Although it doesn't look much different from a regular Starbucks, this place is called Starbucks Select, which is a collection of all the Starbucks products in China, and the big Star R logo is also a lot taller than the original Starbucks.
Asked the staff if there are any other Starbucks not limited to food, and they said no, the first floor is just more complete, but the peripheral sales area over the cups have a lot of limited models.
Even if there is no limited food, but here really full ah, you see which Starbucks window can have so many desserts inside?
There's a long list of desserts in the window!
Here is a special recommendation for Starbucks cheesecake, I feel that his cheesecake is actually very qualified, and only sells for more than 20 bucks (seems to be 28 yuan), with his vanilla latte flavor is just right ~
Worth mentioning is that, in addition to the ordinary coffee area and desserts, there is also a window to sell chocolate, which is not found in any other Starbucks, but is the cooperation of Neuhaus chocolate, one of the best chocolate. Neuhaus chocolate, one of the cheapest also want more than 20 dollars (can not afford to eat) ......
Neuhaus from Switzerland, is one of the world's most famous Belgian chocolate brand, which seems to be more high-end than Godiva, back to Baidu only to realize that they lost the world super food big brand!
Coffee bar here is also a hand brewing coffee teaching experience area, the name is my own hahahaha.
There are too many people lining up, so I can't experience it properly, but I can only take pictures on the side, but the staff's technique is super skillful, and it makes people want to taste it.
After brewing, the coffee varieties will also be introduced, but I basically know nothing about coffee, I forgot what the barista said at that time ......
Then we went to the neighborhood, where there are very, very many cups! It turns out that a normal Starbucks only has one wall, here there are several tables with a bunch of cups densely packed on them, and a few of them feel genuinely pretty.
There are a number of cups that are only sold in this area, so if you are interested, you can pick one up. Each cup is only 100-200 dollars, the same price as a regular Starbucks, and they will be replaced every quarter, so you can sell them second-hand if they are out of print. ...... (You can see that I'm not very commercially minded)
There are a number of cups that are only sold in this area. p>
This is a few bits and pieces, such as badges, key chains and so on.
This cup with the tray in the middle is the limited edition here, and Ai thinks it's very pretty, so she bought it, 228. It's worth mentioning that the spoon for digging coffee beans on the left side of this cup sells for 149！！！！！ I felt my own poverty ......
Other stores have cups here, other stores do not have the limited edition also have, in the future do not go to other Starbucks to buy cups ah, to come here in one breath to buy a full that more comfortable ~
Even if the first floor of the product here is not new, but the cups ah and the dining environment is better than the general The Starbucks is a lot better than the average Starbucks. Ai ordered a cup of coffee, which can also be filled with vanilla ice cream!
I have to say, this is a very good neutralization of the bitter taste of coffee, and the cup is in is good to see the cry, although the price is higher, but send a circle of friends to enhance the overall circle of friends forced to qualify the quality or ok.
The second-floor TEAVANA area
If you like to drink tea at Starbucks, you'll find that their tea brand is called TEAVANA, and this time Starbucks has decorated the entire second floor as a TEAVANA area.
There are not only some TEAVANA special cups to buy, but also a lot of weird little tins of tea.
The menu, which you won't find at any other Starbucks, features all sorts of strange teas. For example, the tea will be layered like cocktails, and matcha like beer, are very creative. (Feel more fun than the first floor)
There is also that steampunk brewing, I love to see what seems to be the use of steam tea, interested partners can go to the scene to see the staff to make a little bit, to see the tea leaves in the steam dance mood will also become better.
Small love in these tea drinks, the favorite is the two layered super nice fruit tea, although it looks like cocktails, will also be layered, but it is layered from tea and juice, and a circle of friends killed, other Starbucks can not have this thing ~
Matcha aura and Zen Peach Qi, surprisingly, is from a brewer-like thing sprayed out (yes, really is sprayed out), it looks like the tea and fruit juice, and it's a good idea to have the tea and fruit tea. It really is sprayed out), looks like a beer, but drink it is more soft taste of tea, praise praise praise ~
How can you not come to a little bit of tea heart? This Chawana area, there are some other Starbucks does not have a small snack, the size of a bite, a **** 10 models.
But the price is not very cheap, 14 yuan a small piece, 48 yuan 4, this price comparison, cheesecake is simply the existence of God ......
In addition to the consumer area, those small canisters of tea (those on the white menu) there will be a few models to provide a trial, and every day to provide the seemingly not the same? It seems to vary from day to day. Today's were these two: Maraja Indian Style Tea and Zen Oolong Tea.
While I don't have much research on tea, but I think, this Indian style tea is really good, mixed with a variety of different spices, after drinking it, I feel like it's mental, I feel like it's very calming effect eh, a little bit of grass.
Third floor liquor special adjustment area
This Starbucks, the biggest feature in the third floor, the entire third floor is a bar, Shanghai opened a while ago a bakery flagship store, which also sells alcohol, this is China's second Starbucks to sell alcohol. All the wine is made on site, the bar on the wine a lot of ah ~
Here is really a lot of people, may be the name of the bar, the first time I encountered a drink but also wait for the location of the situation of waiting for more than 10 minutes ......
Let's take a look at the Starbucks wine menu, limited alcohol today, I can only help you review! A few of them ~
In addition to wine, there are some other specialty drinks. The first three are available, and the last one, the Workshop Creations, is a coffee unique to this place, not available elsewhere oh!
In addition to wine and coffee, there are three small dishes, respectively, vegetable sticks dipped in cheese, cheese breadsticks green olives, mini savory pie. After ordering the mini savory pies, I realized that they are also sold on the first floor.
The savory pies on the first floor are no different from those on the third floor! And really small ah! So small to sell 58 three ah! Naming and criticizing ah! ! 58 is still not ready-made ah ！！！！！ The flavor is really very general ah, or more points cup of wine cost-effective.
How to say the other two dishes, the price is really feel comparable to a better Western restaurant. This + cheese + olive combination how to see than the vegetable dip to give ah, and only ten dollars more expensive, breadsticks crunchy quite delicious, cheese and imagine a little less than the same (quite authentic but the taste is not too like) ......
Vegetable dip, that is really vegetables and cream cheese, this cheese is a little bit of a light sour taste, and the feeling is like a yogurt mousse. Much like a yogurt mousse.
With vegetables is quite good, but this vegetable strips inside is ordinary carrots, cucumbers, seems to be all expensive in this cheese is it.
All in all, these three small dishes are not too recommended to order, the price is a little poor ...... (in order to save space salty pie and vegetable strips even put together)
Wine, in fact, each is very eye-catching, from cocktails to the recent popularity of the craft brewery, as well as wine, sparkling wine and champagne, in general, very full!
This time Xiao Ai ordered Melrose Street, sangria tea, spicy warm red wine, Maifei color surprisingly sold out, Xiao Ai most want to drink is actually this one. Also ordered a craft beer in the Kenyan grapefruit IPA, the following on the start of the review ~
Melrose Street should be the most ordered here a wine, this wine inside is a mixture of coffee and cherry Bittersweet, with the bitter taste of coffee and the aroma of fruit wines, the cherry flavor is very strong, the alcohol content of 0.5 degrees, even if it is a very bad alcohol girl can also feel at ease to enjoy ~ (the above) The cherry is quite sweet)
Sangria tea should be the best flavor of these wines, fruity flavor is very strong, the wine used Spanish fruit wine sangria, and also added mint green tea on its base, with sweet honey and fruit slices, this is a small love this time the most favorite wine, the alcohol content of 1.5, a cup of feeling completely ok.
Spicy warmth of the red wine this is really very It's not like ordinary wine, it's a warm wine. The Malbec red wine is steamed with Indian spice tea, which seems to be the same maraja tea mentioned above, and cinnamon is added at the end to give it a very strong spice flavor. (The one that looks like a straw is a cinnamon roll.)
The warm wine is also very comfortable to drink in the stomach, and if you don't like ice drinks, you can try this one, which is about the same as beer at 6.5 degrees.
Finally said this craft beer, is a Starbucks partner Taiwan Tiger craft brewing produced by grapefruit and Kenya coffee beans cold cui out of a beer, with a rich aroma of grapefruit, because of the presence of coffee so the whole is still on the bitter side, are the products of the fruit wine base, I love more like sangria tea a little more.
Try a few more of the limited coffees here well, the alcohol is as bad as I actually have been a little drunk, ordered a cup of snow alcohol iced coffee and a cup of iced coffee, and then found that these two seem to be just a little vanilla sweet milk difference. （
Directly say this snow alcohol iced coffee, love itself is not like bitter taste of people, so the degree of interest in the coffee is not high, this one is really super bitter ah, bitter to my alcohol are awake, obviously added vanilla sweet milk, but do not feel the existence of it, and finally to girlfriends to drink.
But she said that no matter whether it is iced, or snow alcohol iced, inside the coffee flavor is very pure, like coffee bitter teenagers can still try. Usually come to Starbucks are drinking lattes must not try, will be bitter to cry ......
Here the wine are ready to mix, I later found out that the bartender is a super handsome young lady, super model.
When I think of the drinks I just drank are all mixed by this young lady, the mood of the day has changed for the better. （
All in all, this Starbucks flagship store gives people a feeling of novelty, go to explore the store is also quite fun, the only shortcoming may be the price is higher than the price of ordinary Starbucks stores, but there are also a lot of things unique to this place, the overall shopping down is not a loss to
When KFC McDonald's also opened a flagship store ah ......
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