Seattle’s Best
May 7, 2012 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Articles, Feisty Fun, Manhattan, Midtown, Product Reviews
A while back, Seattle’s Best sent me a gift card for a drink. I finally got to the one location in NYC – in Manhattan Mall – and asked the lone barista to make me his favorite drink. We got to chatting and he mentioned that Starbucks owns them. That doesn’t bother me – I’m a Starbucks recovered addict (due to lack of funds, haha) – but I found it interesting that the line up of drinks seemed fairly different. He wound up making me a caramel macchiato type drink, iced, which I found overwhelmingly too sweet even after I told him to ease up on the sugar. Oh well – there’s only one Seattle’s Best in my city, and if I walked by, I wouldn’t hate going there… but I won’t go out of my way to find one, either.
Do you go to Seattle’s Best? Do you have a recommendation for a drink I’d like? Leave it in comments…
I received this $5 gift card courtesy of Seattle’s Best, but was under no obligation to post about it and received no monetary compensation to do so.
I can feel my teeth rotting just looking at that picture.
Ha! I got a gift card from them as well and could not find the place! Thanks for letting me know it’s IN the Mall
Seattle’s Best has better regular coffee than Starbucks. Didn’t know they are owned by them.
Subway’s serves their coffee!
See below comment re: Starbucks.
Subway serves Seattle’s Best? I did not know that. Thanks for the info!
Yea, I figure you meant it was bought by them.
Starbucks also originally started with coffee beans of Peet’s Coffee and I like their blends more. Peet’s is served in ING Cafe.
Yes, they serve their regular coffee since I used to get it with the breakfast sandwiches.
I love Peet’s! They have interesting blends.
Actually, “Seattle’s Best” started before Starbucks even began, but was eventually bought out by them. I was introduced to Seattle’s Best in 1999 or 2000? at a Jersey train station. I picked up a cup every time I was there after no fail. It then prompted me to buy their ground coffee from the grocery store when I moved to Utah. I drink coffee, but not often enough to tell the difference between the two. Only that I like Seattle’s Best more.
Sorry – my post is misleading, yes, I knew that Starbucks bought Seattle’s Best as opposed to creating them from scratch. I don’t often drink regular coffee – the closest is a soy latte from Starbucks, or sometimes at a diner/if I’m having breakfast or brunch out, I might order a regular coffee… so I can’t really comment on the quality of that at either place.