Starbucks

I love my neighborhood Starbucks. The baristas are top notch, and get to know you and your order. Always ready with my mobile order when I’m in a rush. I like the no drive-​through, since all of the SBUX with drive through a feel rushed and busy. This one is relaxing and a great place to park for a while and work.
The parking lot stinks, but it’s also right next to a pretty decent lunchtime Mexican spot. Can’t go wrong!

Great Starbucks. Quick service.
Small sitting room but it’s nice and quiet. There is also outside seating, which many stores don’t have.
Dakota is my favorite barista there.

This was the most unfriendly Starbucks I’ve ever been in. Seriously. The vibe was so weird and totally unwelcoming.
I walked in and stood at the counter for a good minute and a half with Starbucks peeps walking about behind the bar as if I were the Ghost of Christmas past and they couldn’t see me… at all. I was Invisible Girl.
Finally, I said in my meek «hope I am not bothering you» voice «Excuse me, I just need to get a coffee…»
I was met with a giant sigh and eye roll…
Dude, it’s kind of your job…
Anyway, got my coffee, walked out and will never be back.
There are WAY too many Starbucks in the world to waste time on the crappy ones.
Hasta la vista, barista!

Five stars for the wonderful barista gal who took our order today! I will love her every time I go here. But I’m getting a little ahead of myself. Here is my tale of newly discovered love for a Starbucks staffer:
My friend and I decide to stop in to catch up on life over a Chai tea. We step up to the counter and place our order. Then, suddenly we notice they now serve coconut milk.
We decide to change our milk to coconut milk. Sounds yummy, right? When we step back to mention this, the guy behind the guy ordering says: «Haven’t you already ordered?» And we both tell him we are just making a quick change. He sneers at us and throws his thumb backwards and says: «The line’s back there.» So we take up more of his precious order time by repeating we were making a substitute to the previous order. We also call him a jerk… and an asshole somewhat quietly but hoping he hears us. The wonderful barista gal leans over to us before taking the jerk asshole’s order and asks «What do you want to substitute, I’m happy to make a change.» And we want to hug her. But we don’t since we have already caused way too much waiting time for the jerk asshole. You know, an extra 30 seconds maybe. Wonderful barista gal promptly makes the substitution which takes all of three seconds and we wait for our drinks.
Shortly, the sneering jerk asshole grabs his coffee, hopefully burning his hand when he sloshes it, and shoots giant poisonous fire daggers into us with his beady eyes. He stomps past our table and leaves. We imagine he gets into his Porche Carrera GT to continue his day of rage and hatefulness and we say to each other «Good riddance, jerk asshole!» In case you run into this «JA», he wears a dirty yellow cap with a blue M on the back. Michigan? Get a rope! And don’t mess with Texas women.

I really love the area that this Starbucks is located and the service was pretty fast and friendly. The only downfall I guess would have to be the parking lot. The spots are so small that even compact cars looked big in the spaces! Not to mention that fact that a lot of Texans like bigger cars so you know what I mean. Other than this one variable I think that this Starbucks is a great place to meet friends for coffee and also a great place for a student to sit and study. The lighting is great and the bathrooms are clean, too. What more can you ask for? hehe

(This is the Starbucks on Far West boulevard.)
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I’ve used a public bathroom twice in my life, because I have to know you before sharing your fucking germs. I almost gave this Starbucks five stars for having a spotless pee-​pee room.
But the cramped parking lot can be a challenge, all the chairs are hard & upright, and the interior design appears to resemble a submarine or anorexic fashion model. But it’s around the corner from the Far West HEB & Quarry branch library, and if you need the usual Starbucks stuff, it’s here and available.

I love Starbucks, but I hate this location. The tiny parking lot that has about 20 slots available are shared among two other restaurants. This is a very tiny outdoor sitting area but it has two sets of table and it’s located right in from of the parking lot, so no decent conversation can be happening while sitting outside. It doesn’t get better when you’re inside thought. This tiny location is always packed with students who live nearby, so don’t think that finding a seat is a easy task. Once you do get a seat, don’t expect to chat with your friend because the tiny location makes it noisy. The only good thing that comes to this location is that there is a Wells Fargo and post office nearby, so it’s only good god a coffee run, nothing else.

No drive through! Small parking lot! Busy busy busy!
Service is fast and friendly & drinks are made up to par… it’s really not their fault… but just don’t come if you’re in a rush.

If I ever have an hour to kill, I come to this Starbucks because I live right down the street!
But I walk… I do NOT drive as parking is AHHHH!!! (not good)
And also, this location is THE SLOWEST in the history of the WHOLE WORLD!!!
Another AHHHH!!! (verrrry slow)
But the staff is SUPER SWEET!!!

Hate the location and parking lot but besides that yay Starbucks! !!! Nice staff, fast service, clean place.

Love this location. They have great staff and have so many regular customers that I find it amazing they can remember my basic drink order.

Quick, consistent service. The baristas are helpful but not overly fake friendly. Even though it’s not a drive through it’s still an easy place to pop in and out to get your morning fix. However, imo not a super relaxed atmosphere for hanging out, as it can get very crowded and loud. All in all, still my favorite sbx in the hood.

This is a convenient Starbucks for all the people that live in the surrounding apartments off farwest. But, because of this, it is ALWAYS busy. Don’t expect to sit and relax, because the hustle and bustle can be a little stressful.
The parking lot is entirely too small and you may have to circle for a parking spot. But not for long because people are always leaving.
Other than that, this Starbucks is great. I can usually grab a coffee in under 5 minutes and be on my way.
Cheers!

Strawberry frapp! Walking distance to my pad, so this is legit because of that fact.

If you go often, ask how to become a gold member! :)

I like this location a lot.
It’s consistent and the morning staff know my name. I guess that’s kinda sad, but oh well :)
The only drawbacks are that it’s kinda small. It’s the weirdest little shopping center. So many businesses/​suites oddly configured and crammed into one building. Also parking can be tricky. I’ve been there several times when there hasn’t been an empty space. This is usually when there’s something going on at the church next door and the middle school/​athletic fields across the street.

This location was always a disappointment. The staff are friendly and I appreciate them. But I gave it a few tries and every time I ordered from here my drinks tasted burnt and bad.
Hate to say it, but while living at Far West, I ended up avoiding this location altogether and driving to the one on Anderson instead, which was much better.

I honestly DO like this Starbucks. It’s in my hood, when I worked nearby, I was here at least once every workday, and most importantly, my BF and I used to hang out here on the patio in our early dating days.
Ah yes… the patio. The reason for my 3 star review. (I was actually wavering between 3 – 4, just out of loyalty’s sake.)
Back in the Summer of our young love, we spent many a happy hour on this patio. The people watching is great, just an overall fun and relaxing experience. So, last week when we had a chance to go in together and grab a beverage and muffin, we were most excited to go back and sit at ‘our table.‘
Give the patio some love, Starbucks! The tables and chairs were terribly scattered (and not just like patrons had gotten up from them… like they were just randomly tossed about.) We had to grab two chairs and pull them to our table.
Trash everywhere on the ground…:sob: it was just sad. The reason why (I figured out) is that there was NO TRASHCAN out there… ummmm…WHAT? So you have to go back inside to toss your trash (which we did) but really, an outdoor patio seating area should always have a trash can.
That is really my whole rant, and maybe we just caught it at a bad time, but the patio used to be our fave thing about this place.
Service is quick, baristas are friendly (and remember your order when you are a frequent customer.)
An outdoor garbage can and an every now and then check to the condition of the area would make this a 4 – 5 star review.

I love this Starbucks. It is near my house and doesn’t have the feeling that it is a chain coffee store. The staff are super nice. I come here a couple times a week to get coffee before a long day at work. The parking lot is kind of hard to get into, but I don’t mind because they are always quick and courteous.

To be honest, I’m not really a coffee drinker. But I AM a procrastinator and something has got to keep me up for all those late nights I inevitably have.
A lot of coffee tastes the same to me. For the most part, I am quite satisfied with the instant coffee I smuggled back with me from Nicaragua. But every once in a while I want something ridiculously sweet and I am all about placebo effects. So I’ll head to Starbucks.
Unfortunately this one does not have a drive-​thru, which is OK. It’s literally a couple blocks from my house, so that gives me some incentive to go out for a stroll. My only issue with the actual store is the parking situation is a bit dicey. Very small parking lot for the 4 stores that are in the tiny strip mall and it’s a weird L-​shape that encloses the restaurants, with the streets serving as the other borders. Anyway, I only notice this because I drive a truck and find myself trying to back into tiny spaces and getting out at awkward angles. But, not that big a deal.
Think what stands out here is the customer service. Every time I’ve gone in I’ve experienced wonderfully competent and friendly workers. They’ve even got some witty banter going on, which I appreciate. They even gave me a Marshmellow Dream Bar for free once. I think I was struck by how they actually seemed to be enjoying their jobs. Whether that’s true or not is irrelevant– they at least know how to put on a good customer service act. This is also a marked difference from the type of service I usually experience at Starbucks. Maybe it’s a Far West thing…