![]() Louetta Rd and Vintage Preserve Pkw, Houston, Texas OPENED:, PHOTO: Replaces the kiosk that was right outside for nearly 15 years. OPENED:, PHOTO: Be sure to walk to the sectioned off seating area at the back of the store, and after you admire the light, perhaps the largest I've seen at any store anywhere, turn around and notice the well-stocked bookshelf. OPENED:, PHOTO: I'm not sure if this is considered 'The Heights', but it as close as as Starbucks has gotten yet. OPENED:, PHOTO: Drive-thru/walk-up only. According to my database, there are no more than 98. OPENED: ?, PHOTO: The 100th store in Houston! But only according to Starbucks. OPENED: Mar 2007, PHOTO: Obscenely large mega-church, anybody? But they served a drive-thru customer before they unlocked the front door, thus tainting my #1 position. I would have been the first customer the day the store opened, having arrived before 5:00 AM, over thirty minutes early, to wait. OPENED:, PHOTO:, ORIGINAL VISIT: This location brings to ten the number of stores along Highway 6/FM 1960, a primary highway/road that loops around the western half of the Houston metroplex. Houston Galleria Downstairs, Houston, Texas OPENED:, PHOTO: The extremely old kiosk was completely torn down and rebuilt, so I count this as a new store! Houston Galleria 2nd floor, Houston, Texas Highland Knolls & Westgreen, Houston, Texas Because the store only has one table near a power outlet, the manager bought a pair of small plastic tables that can be used by customers who have laptops and are sitting on the comfy chairs. On a subsequent visit to this store I found something interesting. OPENED: ?, PHOTO: The unusual round wall in those store is actually an accident, but I think it's a happy accident. OPENED:, PHOTO:, ORIGINAL VISIT: Good luck finding parking at this store in Houston's ultra-busy Medical Center, the largest such complex in the world.Īnd curse my bones!!! I overslept and missed being the first customer at this location by a couple of hours. A sign on the exterior would help, but at the time I visited, they were unsure of whether they would be allowed to put one up. OPENED: ?, PHOTO: It's just a tiny slice of a store, true, but this is the first one in downtown Houston to be visible from the street. OPENED:, PHOTO:, ORIGINAL VISIT: Relocation. I cannot find a notation for the first one in my database-anybody got any info?īuffalo Speedway & Westpark, Houston, TexasĬambridge & Fannin-MH Medical Plaza, Houston, TexasĬhimney Rock Rd & Richmond Ave, Houston, Texas OPENED:, PHOTO: According to a barista, this is the second Houston-area store to share space with a bank. OPENED:, PHOTO: This store has an unusual style of wall, white and a bit bubbly, that reminds me of pop art, as well as modernistic chandelier-style lights. OPENED: ?, PHOTO:, ORIGINAL VISIT: I am told this store is really in the city of Southside Place, a city I'd never heard of. I noticed that, although they both used standard corporate design elements, they had strikingly differently looks, which makes me wonder if this is not intentional, that differnet designs are chosen for nearby stores to lessen the impression that all Starbucks have cookie-cutter designs.īeechnut & 610 - Meyerland, Houston, Texas OPENED: ?, PHOTO: This store opened on the same day as the nearby Nasa Road store, and I visited both a couple of weeks after they opened, one right after the other. OPENED: ?, PHOTO: Continuing along Highway 6 until it intersects US 290, splitting off to the northwest and leaving us on FM 1960, we come across this drive-thru location, actually across from the mall.Ītascocita & Will Clayton, Houston, Texasīarker Cypress & Park Row, Houston, Texas OPENED: ?, PHOTO:, ORIGINAL VISIT: This store had seating removed around 2022 and is now pick-up/drive-thru only. OPENED:, PHOTO: This store has an unusual seating area, almost entirely enclosed in a metal cage that the baristas call (affectionately, I presume), the jungle gym.
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