"A tri-level Starbucks Reserve Roastery opened. It’s a 23,000-square-foot caffeine theme park hawking designer sunglasses and nitrogenated coffee laced with beef jerky. Inside, leather bannisters and tawny ceiling squares evoke the color scheme of a caramel Frappuccino. Larger design elements — a storage tank the size of small nuclear reactor, snake-like tubes that transport beans across the store — take their cue from 'the hardworking ethos of the Meatpacking District,' according to the Starbucks website. The size of the New York location — it can accommodate nearly 600 people at any given time — suggests it will easily become the city’s most-trafficked culinary establishment of 2019." - Ryan Sutton
