Visiting the Starbucks in Kawagoe Kanetsuki-dori Pt. 1

Originally featured on dennisamith.com Back on March 19, 2018, Starbucks opened a shop in Kawagoe’s Koedo (Little Edo) where many historic buildings are located. And similar to Kawagoe’s unique landscape in Saitama prefecture, Starbucks made sure to match the traditional architecture of the area with Read More …

Checking out the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo – Part 2 – Rocco Princi – Spirito di Milano

Originally featured in DennisAmith.com: Once you get inside the door of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo’s Meguro ward, you have several choices, go to the right for the merchandise store, go to the middle section for coffee, go straight left in order to get Read More …

A visit to the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo – Part 1

The following was originally featured on dennisamith.com: On February 28th, the largest Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the world opened in Nakameguro, Tokyo. While there are Starbucks roaster cafe’s in Seattle, New York, Milan and Shanghai, this is the largest and is also the first training Read More …