Starbucks Reserve® Seattle Roastery

Starbucks Reserve® Seattle Roastery reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

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   Mark

   Atlanta3 reviews

   3.0

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 5

   Store is amazing. Employees overall were super helpful and polite. Much better than a local storefront. My main concern is the person leading out tasting was very hard to hear. He was very soft spoken. They was brought to his attention several times. He skimmed over the tastings and didn’t really explain anything. Felt like he knew facts and shared them, but not really able to explain them.
   

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   Samantha

   San Diego1 review

   5.0

   Dined 7 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Did the coffee tasting and smelling experience, and the person who did our coffee experience was amazing! Calvin knew his stuff and we had some amazing coffee samples, and learned about how to make coffee and where it comes from. 10/10 recommend, worth the $$ totally
   

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   Isabella VIP

   New York City3 reviews

   2.0

   Dined on 24 March 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   Do not book a tour on Sunday, the tour is limited due to some parts being cleaned and shut down. Also, coffee tasting is nothing sophisticated, rather basic and unimpressive for the amount of money spent.
   

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   ChadH

   Omaha5 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 19 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   We were lucky to be the only people booked. Got a private tasting with the attention focused on us.
   

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   Yi Hui

   London2 reviews

   1.0

   Dined on 17 March 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 2

   My husband and I did the Coffee Roasting & Tasting Experience, and it was underwhelming. As background, we are into specialty coffee and were hoping that the Starbucks Reserve collection could convince us that Starbucks is not all about commercialisation, and actually does care about the coffee quality. However, we were sorely disappointed. We started off with tasting of 3 coffees. The first one already let us down, it was a cold brew with vanilla syrup added. Who does this at a coffee tasting?? How can I taste the coffee itself when the vanilla syrup has masked the original taste? The next two coffees were with any syrup, but had been brewed with very little care (French press, with no care of brewing time). By the time we tasted them, it was definitely over-extracted and tasted bad. We then walked around the cafe for the touring part. Thankfully, we got to talk to the roaster for 5-10 minutes, and that was at least a little bit informative. However, as a roaster in the cafe itself, she had very little/no control of experimenting with the roasting process. She basically were given instructions by corporate HQ, and could only follow them, so that was slightly disappointing to hear. The rest of the tour went around the cafe, which was very crowded and not conducive for a group tour of 9 people. Food was better than expected, it met our expectations more than the coffee or the tour. Will not recommend this tour, or the Reserve coffee honestly, you can get much better quality of coffee at the many cafes in Seattle.
   

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   Taymara

   Unspecified1 review

   5.0

   Dined on 14 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Calvin was absolutely fantastic! He provided outstanding customer service and was friendly, upbeat and incredibly helpful. His positive attitude made the experience even better, and he was very informative!!
   

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   Chris VIP

   Phoenix15 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 9 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The espresso martini experience was so fun! Samantha, our Instructor, was great and so were the espresso martinis! Highly recommend !
   

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   Nathaniel

   Unspecified1 review

   1.0

   Dined on 6 March 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 1

   It honestly felt like a scam, we payed 45$ per person to sip a couple coffees which was a cool experience but our host really seemed like he was talking about random facts and didn’t know what he was talking out nessasarly. And then the whole tour everyone could hear the tour which made us really feel like we should have just come to visit and not pay for the tour. And to top of it they let someone in the private room while we were in there to look around at the stuff in the reserved room. Overall the place is cool but the experience is not worth it the slightest. I honestly want my money back but I’m not like that so I just won’t be coming nor suggesting that it to anyone
   

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   Monica

   San Diego3 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 3 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great experience over all, forgot our barista / bartenders name but he was super cool and and taught us how to make the best espresso martini, a little pricey but definitely check it out.
   

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    Bryan

    Kansas City1 review

    5.0

    Dined on 2 March 2025

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 4
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    Our tour was amazing thanks to our guide Stephanie. The best! I highly recommend.
    

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