John V.
Yelp
I have a hate-hate relationship with this Starbucks. The only reason to use this location for your coffee addiction is for the drive-thru. And that's the problem.
First, one has to know how to access the drive-thru. One would think that it would be obvious since it's on freakin' Colorado Blvd., the busiest street in the state but noooooo, it is not at all obvious. The entrance of the drive-thru is found off Arizona Ave. and NOT Colorado Blvd. Duh.
If you are going SB on Colorado, you make a right on to Arizona and then an immediate left as if you were going into the Wahoo's parking lot to enter the drive-thru.
If you are going NB on Colorado Blvd, you are screwed and should just find another location to get your coffee. Seriously. There is no way in hell that you are going to be able to make a safe left turn onto Arizona. If you insist on doing so you are on your own. Have your insurance agent's phone number handy, you'll need it.
Once you manage to find the drive-thru the fun is not yet over, not by a long espresso shot. Hopefully you are not attempting to get coffee between 6:50AM and 8:40AM because the drive-thru is backed up all the way to the street so you must wait until the slowly moving line of cars advances for you to take your place in line.
If you courteously use your left turn signal to let people behind you know that you want to turn you will be honked at and verbally assaulted by self-absorbed luxury car driving a$$holes. Your heart beat now sufficiently raised, you begin to wonder if you even need coffee.
The timid and easily bullied will move on and not wait to make that left turn, but not you, because you have coffee obsessive disorder (identified in DSM-5) and are as obstinate as the person behind you who ceaselessly continues to honk and curse. Because of your coffee dependency you have now backed up Arizona Ave. all the way to Colorado Blvd. telling yourself the whole time that it's not your fault.
Did I mention that the McDee's drive-thru empties out right onto Arizona Ave. too? Oh yeah, you'll also be blocking their exit on to Arizona. You have no choice however because you've made the commitment to that left turn. It is not as easy to ignore the epithets being spewed from the McDee's person since they are facing you, but you do, determined to get your coffee fix. Pro tip: a ball cap and dark shades facilitates this process.
The coffee is exactly the same as at any other Starbucks.