Visitors to Seattle are ready to be dazzled by coffee … but I’ll only let ’em go to a Starbucks twice – once to a “regular” one so they can see how much more food, goodies, and cool stuff we get with our “home field advantage” and once to the Pike Place Market original Starbucks coffee shop.



It’s fun to see people blink at the original logo (LOVE the original logo) take a picture of the pig made of coffee beans that stands over the entrance, and … I swear one day I will successfully remember to buy an original Starbucks coffee shop card on a day when the cards are in stock and the charger-upper machine is working. But for a Starbucks fan from afar, that card’s got storytelling clout back home. Trust me, it’s true.