Starbucks has been slowly expanding the number of Reserve Bars it has. These are the special Starbucks locations that offer Reserve coffees, unique merchandise, and elevated brewing methods. Reserve Starbucks coffees are small batch, premium coffee offerings.
On October 18th this year, Starbucks opened a second Reserve Bar in Los Angeles, California at Hillhurst & Avocado. It is beautiful! I had the chance to visit it on December 20th and took all the photos below.
The Starbucks Reserve Bar locations are one of the only places you’ll find the wonderful and elusive Micro Blend No 11 coffee. It’s a bit of a unicorn in the Reserve lineup. To this day, I hear it is one of Howard Schultz’s favorite coffees, originally blended years ago to create the perfect Reserve Blend. Today you’ll find Micro Blend No. 11 in select fine dining restaurants, Roy Street Coffee and Tea (a one-of-a-kind experimental Starbucks store), and select Starbucks stores such as Reserve Bars.
You can order siphon brewed coffee at a Reserve Bar, or unique beverages like the Juniper Latte!
The new Hillhurst & Avocado Reserve Bar is located at 2138 Hillhurst Avenue.
Take a look at how gorgeous it is! You will have a great experience. I visited mid-afternoon on the 20th and met lots of friendly partners and had a great time. Hope you get to visit this Reserve Bar or any other Reserve Bar location.
Looking for a list of Reserve Bar locations? Here you go!
Canada – Mt. Pleasant – 2980 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, (604) 873-5176
Canada – Byward Market – 62 York Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 5T1
California – Hillhurst & Avocado – 2138 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, California (323) 912-9210
California – Stevens Creek & Deanza – 20520 A Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, California 95014 (408) 973-8358
California – 4th & LaBrea – 359 South LaBrea, Los Angeles, California 90036 (323) 627-5619
California – Blossom Hill Pavilion – 624 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, California 95032 (408) 402-0310
California – Palm Canyon Dr. & Tahquitz Canyon – 110 N. Palm Canyon Rd., Palm Springs, California 92262
California – Broadway & Hamilton – 2227 N. Broadway, Redwood City, California 94063 (650) 465-7508
California – 7th & K – 630 K Street, Sacramento, California 95814 (916) 764-2120
District of Columbia – Brookland CUA – 655 Michigan Ave. NE, Suite B1, Washington DC, 20017 (202) 505-0472
Georgia – 7th & Peachtree – 867 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 (404) 876-7466
Hawaii – Waikiki Trade Center – 2255 Kuhio Ave., Suite 101, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96815 (808) 284-0278
Illinois – North & Damen – 1588 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60622 (773) 862-0249
Illinois – Oak & Rush – 1003 N. Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 (312) 951-5436
Illinois – The Park at Wrigley – 3649 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois 60613 (224) 531-4490
Illinois – Western & Deerpath – 672 N. Western Avenue, Lake Forest, Illinois, 60045 (847) 234-5420
Illinois – Main & Jefferson –
Massachusetts – Harvard Yard – 1380 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (617) 354-3726
Maryland – Harbor East – 615 S. President Street, Baltimore, Maryland 20212 (410) 685-4369
Michigan – Old Woodward & Maple – 101 N. Old Woodward, Birmingham, 48009 (248) 723-8430
New Jersey – Closter Plaza – 79 VerValen St., D-15, Closter, New Jersey 07624 (201) 750-3555
New York – 154 N. 7th – 154 N. 7th, Brooklyn, New York 11211 (718) 384-0152
New York – 6 Metrotech at Jay Street – 6 Metrotech, Brooklyn, New York 11201 (718) 522-2396
New York – Waverly Place – 10 Waverly Place, New York, New York 10003 (929) 259-0304
New York – 47th & Broadway – 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 (212) 541-7515
New York – Broadway & 9th – 771 Broadway, New York, New York 10003 (646) 445-9014
New York – Brookfield Place – 250 Vesey Street #250, New York, New York 10281 (646) 618-5392
New York – Macy’s Herald Square – 151 West 34th, New York, New York 10001 (212) 239-6524
Texas – The Domain Northside – 3120 Palm Way #110, Austin, Texas 78758 (737) 207-1987
Texas – McKinney & Olive – 2355 Olive Street, Suite 120, Dallas, Texas 75201 (496) 418-4786
Texas – Legacy West – 7600 Windrose Ave Ste G140, Plano, Texas 75024 (214) 490-1227
Washington – 1st & University – 1305 First Ave., Seattle, Washington 98101 (206) 482-3871
The above list is a list of Starbucks Reserve Bars. These are elevated Starbucks stores with unique coffees, drinks, and more. These are not actual roasteries. As I write this, there are only two Reserve Roasteries. The two Reserve Roastery locations have unique food, drink, and elevated brewing methods, exclusive coffees, as well as complete roasting operations. For example, at the Reserve Roastery in Seattle, you can see green coffee being loaded into the Green Coffee Loading Pit and you can see it being roasted in the roaster.
The two Reserve Roastery locations are the Roastery in Seattle, and the new Reserve Roastery in Shanghai.
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Thank you again Ms melody. I wish I had known of your visit in advance. This is my everyday Starbucks. I was one of the first two customers at opening. I would have loved to have met you and bought you a cup. Keep up the great articles. The manager and staff are fantastic at this location.
Hi Sam! I got the photos that you sent me too! You were part of my inspiration to go visit. I’m sorry that we didn’t connect. I take a lot of trips to California, and generally I’m just visiting family and I try to squeeze in Starbucks activities around that. Sometimes it’s not well planned in advance when I’m visiting a Starbucks! I want you to know that I appreciate that you’ve been a reader for a long time and I’d be happy to connect over a French press someday!
Melody,
Either this has been a “soft opening” or this is a “Reserve Bar Lite” concept store — after some searching I found this here in the Toronto area (I haven’t been to it as I don’t live near it)
https://reserve.delta.blog/2017/08/05/starbucks-reserve-bar-yorkdale-mall-east-toronto-ontario/
Looks like a Reserve Bar (but not a full sized, standalone location) in one of the big malls here. It isn’t listed on the Reserve Bar website at all. They call themselves “Reserve Experience Bar / Flagship Store” on their instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/sbuxydeast/
Can’t wait to get over there! I have about 12 free drinks to use up!
(as an update to my last post) seems that new “Reserve Experience Bar” changed its Instagram name probably because it originally lacked the word “Starbucks”. Anyway here it is:
https://www.instagram.com/starbucks.yde/
I’m going to visit them next week!
Dear Melody, would you say that the Starbucks Upper St Martins Lane in London can also be considered a fully fledged Reserve Bar? It seems to tick all the boxes interior- and concept-wise, but I don’t think they offer the premium bakery items and special edition coffees (like the juniper one around Christmas). What’s your opinion on this?