21 Starbucks Stores That Are More Beautiful Than They Have Any Right To Be

Your passport is going to have coffee stains all over it.

1. This store, called the Dewata Coffee Sanctuary in Bali, is 24,000 square feet, has an adjoining coffee farm, tasting room, greenhouse, and an interactive wall showing how coffee is picked, washed, and roasted.

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Starbucks says: "This one-of-a-kind Coffee Sanctuary builds upon 16 years of innovation in design, customer experience, and community impact in Indonesia. The store pays tribute to the important role that Indonesia, the fourth largest Arabica coffee growing region in the world, plays in bringing Starbucks customers the highest quality coffees."

2. This Starbucks at their own coffee farm in Costa Rica couldn't get me to leave their balcony no matter how hard they tried.

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Starbucks says: "Did you know Hacienda Alsacia’s 600 acres function as a working coffee farm, complete with a new Visitor Center that explores the journey of coffee from seedling to cup? And 25 acres are devoted to an ambitious task: research and development to help ensure the future of coffee production."

3. This Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Milan has a 30-foot marble counter inside, as well as a mezzanine where mixologists make coffee cocktails.

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Starbucks says: "As you enter the building, you're met with a jaw-dropping view that spans every aspect of the Roastery experience. There is a wood-fronted main bar where classic espresso beverages mingle with cutting-edge coffee innovation. Upstairs on the mezzanine, mixologists are on hand to create specialty cocktails behind a 30-foot-long marble bar carved from a single block of Calacatta Macchia Vecchia."

4. This totally unique store in Taiwan is made out of 29 shipping containers.

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Starbucks says: "This unique exterior design was envisioned and brought to life by the famed Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, who has also the exterior architect for the upcoming Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo. This is the first time Kuma has used shipping containers for his designs and was inspired by the foliage of coffee trees combined with the traditional Chinese bucket arch."

5. This store in Thailand honestly looks more like a palace.

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Starbucks says: "The store has more than 230 seats and two large rooms designed to host community events or small gatherings surrounded by locally-relevant art installations throughout the store. Local artists Rukkit Kuanhawate created a feature piece highlighting the various coffee growing regions through regional wildlife including the Sumatran Tiger, Kenyan Elephant, and Guatemalan Quetzal bird."

6. This three-story store in Yangshuo, Xijie looks like it's been there since the town was built.

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Starbucks says: "To respect this beautiful old town, Starbucks designers used very simple, but clean and neat material, such as concrete, stone, brick, natural wood, and aged brass with a contemporary design idea to blend the new and old, west and east together, embracing the cultures from around the globe."

7. This store on the beach of Mallorca has so many windows, you can't avoid views of the water even if you wanted to.

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Starbucks says: "[This] beachfront location has the longest shoreline views on the island! The open design makes the most of the sunny weather Palma basks in most of the year, and the timber flooring and wooden features give the space a modern feel."

8. This store in New Orleans pays tribute to the city's culture and design elements. Honestly, I want to take one of those trumpet lights home.

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Starbucks says: "Starbucks designers went back in time for this store, imagining what the space might look like if it had belonged to a Louisianan merchant in the early 1900s. The front room, where the merchant would have worked, features floor-to-ceiling shelves behind a large coffee bar, designed to resemble an old-fashioned apothecary store. Local sculptor David Borgerding built chandeliers from old wrought iron gates to honor the city’s mercantile roots."

9. This cafe in Kobe, Japan is on the waterfront and designed to look like a ship coming into port.

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Starbucks says: "This store is an expressive addition to an exuberant collection of public structures and art in Kobe Meriken Park. Set into the waterfront park and styled as a ship at harbor, the unusual shape serves the environment as well to connect with the neighborhood."

10. This store in Maryland is so cozy and mod, it feels like you need reservations for it.

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Starbucks says: "Leather and brass accents reinforce rustic elements and drive home a warm and comfortable vibe. The use of white accents against walnut wood feels light and clean and complements the hotel lobby. A mix of custom elements, as with the sofas, condiment cart, railing, flat wood slatting, and merchandise wall millwork, elevate furnishings sourced from the Toolkit by the Concepts team."

11. This charming store in Palm Springs looks like the perfect desert oasis.

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Starbucks says: "To celebrate the characteristic greenery surrounding the city, Josh Rosen — a local landscape specialist and air plants expert — created a custom “pour-over “inspired brass and metal clamp to house air plants randomly mounted onto the wooden screen interior. He used 35 sculpture distinctive desert air plants — requiring no soil to grow - to mirror with the outside palm tree silhouette and other local vegetation found in the desert."

12. This store in Portland, Oregon has got the coolest little hint of steampunk that you can definitely vibe with.

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Starbucks says: "This store is located in the Merchant Hotel in Portland's Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood inside a beloved building on the National Register of Historic Places. The Merchant is one of the West Coast's few remaining examples of Victorian-Italianate cast-iron architecture... The store features minimalist design and its rich textures complemented by reclaimed oak barn wood and, where possible, the original brickwork, wood, and plaster."

13. This glass coffee dome in Korea is decorated with coffee trees and considers itself an "urban coffee forest."

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Starbucks says: "In South Korea, the Famille Park store's exterior is a geometric glass dome structure that invites customers to enjoy an “urban coffee forest" within the city. The interior features wood and decorations that use eco-friendly materials such as burlap bags."

14. This store in Miami Beach has huge murals, tons of light, and is walking distance to the ocean.

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Starbucks says: "The Starbucks at 2912 Collins blends coffee heritage with the local neighborhood. The store, within walking distance from the ocean, showcases the colors and textures of surrounding beaches."

15. This bank-turned-Starbucks in Idaho is so charming and toasty looking, I want to roll around in the snow just so I can go in and warm up.

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Starbucks says: "This Starbucks was built in a former bank building in Ketchum, Idaho. Designers used natural stone and kept woods naturally rough look throughout the building. The building has a ski lodge look and feel to it which is ideal for a location just down the road from ski resorts in Sun Valley."

16. This store in Amsterdam used to be a literal bank vault.

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Starbucks says: "Among other things, it features a floor-to-ceiling 'tattooed' mural celebrating the history of Dutch coffee traders, re-purposed Dutch oak throughout the space, antique Delft blue tiles, a ceiling sculpture created from 1,876 hand-cut wooden blocks, and a wall clad in recycled bicycle inner tubes."

17. This Kagoshima Senganen store in Japan looks homey and move-in ready.

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Starbucks says: "It is Satsuma Kiriko glass carving technique and colorful expression of scales of the Starbucks Siren which inspire the interior works such as bar counter, the ceiling and lighting fixtures in the entire space. Starbucks breathes new life into the history of Satsuma."

18. This store in Boston built in a historical building from the 1800's beckons me to take pictures of my coffee in black and white.

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Starbucks says: "Early renovations revealed secret passageways, old bank vaults, and stashes of newspapers and other vintage documentation.

Designers wanted the store to reflect the early architectural vocabulary, nod toward its storied history, and showcase the rich and opulent materiality of a nineteenth-century bank."

19. This massive Starbucks Reserve Roastery in New York is basically a coffee lover's dream come true.

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Starbucks says: "There’s a working coffee roaster, freshly made Princi baked goods, an expansive mezzanine-level bar with adventurous craft cocktails, a surprise terrarium, a Starbucks Siren emerging from sculpted metal water — the list goes on."

20. This store was built in a century-old community space in Olympia, Washington.

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Starbucks says: "Chambers Prairie Grange No. 191, was built in 1909 as a community gathering space and was used until about 2002 near Olympia, Washington. Most of the more than 110-year-old building still remains intact. When needed, the team matched new materials with old."

21. This store in Paris, which is perfect if you ever wanted to feel like you were drinking your coffee in an actual painting.

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Starbucks says: "The original building and courtyard date all the way back to the 17th century. The Starbucks design team paid close attention to ensuring the rich history of the building was retained firstly with the incredible ornate and intricate 19th century ceiling murals and motifs, which have been fully restored to their original state and now reveal their true colors and historical elegance."

UPDATE

Jun. 04, 2019, at 16:49 PM

A previous version of the post incorrectly stated that the store in Ketchum, ID was a church. It was actually a bank before it became a Starbucks!