Starbucks

The service was okay, but my daughter tried to find a milk and they were all quite expired.

Solid location. I’ve never had a complaint regarding my drink order and there’s plenty of places to sit. It can get a little loud when it’s full, but it’s not meant to be a library. Also has a good amount of places to sit where access to an outlet is available.

I used to go to this Starbucks a lot but I have been having very inconsistent drinks here. I order the same thing all the time at every Starbucks and although all of them get it wrong occasionally this one gets it wrong ¹⁄₅ of the time. I have now taken my business to the east longmeadow Starbucks which hasn’t gotten it wrong yet.

If the walls of this Starbucks could talk, it would revel the gossip and secrets of hundreds of Bay Path College alumni.
As I recently was in Longmeadow for my five year (…oh, sweet Jesus…) college reunion, a rather droll midday Saturday event required a bit of a caffeine boost afterwards.
Stuck in the the middle of the town’s adorable shopping center (…it was good to still see Talbot’s and Chico’s and a bunch of hoity-​toity Longmeadow Mothers…), it has changed a bit since I was last there. A few less tables and a few less display cases of various Starbucks products, but it makes the seating space ultimately bigger. This is a large Starbucks, able to cram a lot of thirsty rich teenagers in Hollister, looking for their Venti Caramel Frappacino fixes.
As the sweet barista took my order, she took the time to ask me if I’d like my Vanilla Rooibus latte with whole milk, 2% milk, or skim milk. After thinking about it, I said, «Skim, please.» She asked me if I would like it sweetened if if I would like to add my own sweetener. I thought about this again. Intriguing! I decided to have it unsweetened. The whole concept of actually being able to carefully think about my order without a New York City crowd pushing behind me while a barista takes your order about five people prior to the cash register threw me off there for a minute, folks.
I sat with some of my old college friends by the unlit fireplace. We sat down at 2:45 p.m. We left at 6 p.m. We spent the entire time talking shit about old classmates. That’s IT.
A proud Bay Path tradition continues…

I frequent the ‘Bucks quite a bit so I have a good base to compare different stores. This one is decent. I say decent because I’m not a 50-​something divorcee on the prowl. I feel like 85% of the patrons at this store wish they were on «Real Housewives of Longmeadow» or «Desperate Longmeadow Housewives». The next 9% is made up of high school girls. Usually freshmen or sophomores I think. I usually don’t like to look at them. The next 6% is made up of the Longmeadow Police Department.
Their hours are lame because they close at 9 or 9:30 and if its a Friday/​Saturday they stay open until 10! Rock on!
Products are consistent. Staff is nice but forget your orders sometimes and leave you standing at the counter staring at them like a puppy hoping to be adopted and/​or given a treat.
Its fine if you want one of their drinks. Or if you want to gossip about the PTA.

MMMM.
This was my first ever experience with Starbucks. That’s kind of weird to think about considering their eponymous nature at this point, but Longmeadow was never really much of an expansionist town, per se. The town fought the big corporate boys tooth and nail until the floodgate creaked open with CVS (which gobbled first Ryan Drug and later Bliss Pharmacy) and then Blockbuster and Starbucks. I can’t review the first two, because I worked at both at some point, but I can review the place that helped satiate my caffeine addiction up until college.
All of the above being said, the Starbucks here has nice service, nice places to sit both inside and outside, and an overall chill demeanor. The lighting helps this a little bit: for some reason, I always found this place to be a little bit less-​lit-​up than your average Starbucks.
So nice location and a nice place to get your coffee on.