Starbucks

This is one of the best Starbucks in Manchester. There is plenty of seating up and downstairs as well as some outside.
The staff are friendly and the service is good.
The selection if drinks is what you would expect from a coffee house but a little bit better, and in the winter they always bring out a selection of new coffees and teas to warm you up in the festive winter time.

This Starbucks is decent, though it feels wrong coming here when Pot Kettle Black is just around the corner. Spacious inside seating for the location, with more tables available downstairs. Good if you want to just pop in for something quick.

So today this was all about a quick pit stop to refuel. This is a nice sized Starbucks and has a simple yet effective one way system that doesn’t take a degree to work out. Rather than my usual white chocolate peppermint skinny mocha I went for a passion fruit blend. And it was delicious. The thing I like about this Starbucks is its not overly in your face. They just serve with a smile. There is non of this million and one extras sell when you get to the till. The staff were friendly and polite and the service was quick sharp. If you are in town and fancy a coffee or indeed like me a fruit blend I would recommend this establishment.

Like every Starbucks, only bigger
Yet to receive the latest Starbucks update, this has been the most successful occupant of this site (I remember when it was a Gap during my post-​uni years and it was the most cutting-​edge thing in the city — how times change!). This branch is the largest in the city centre but is always busy — you’ll be hard pushed to find a seat on a Saturday, and on a Sunday morning it’s about the only thing open at this end of the retail strip so it’s packed between 930 and 11am.
Usual Starbucks service but its appeal is the passing world outside the picture windows — recently jigged about to seat more in the windows, it looks out on lovely St Ann’s Square which is always buzzing. Worth a drop in for a caffeine fix of the high street variety and to people watch for 10 – 15 minutes.

A very busy Starbucks in Manchester city centre. Thankfully it’s one of the few branches left that has a good amount of comfortable seating, with lots more available downstairs.
Seasonal variations to the menu are always welcome. The current chocolate and ginger muffins are a delight. The fruit toast from the regular menu is a favourite of mine for breakfast which comes with lashings of butter and a pot of conserve.
Why only 3 stars? The toilet situation. There are individual male and female toilets downstairs. On this visit the female toilet had a notice declaring that it was out of service. The make toilet had no notice but the door appeared to be permanently locked. That leaves 1 disabled access toilet upstairs to cope with a coffee shop that has over a hundred seats and people drinking. Not good enough!

Big company coffee shop. I realy like this coffee but every Starbucks coffee shop looks that same with no spirit. Friendly staff and very clean place. Nice to relax with book or meet friend for some gossips .Lol

A normal Starbucks, not very comfy, not very cosy, but free wifi!

Love this Starbucks. Its a great place to chill with great coffee choice and one of the stores that still has relaxing sofa chairs downstairs. Free wifi, though both phone signal and wifi quality downstair isn’t great.

This is one of my favourite Starbucks in Manchester. Enjoy your coffee in the relaxing dark and moody basement seating area. Not forgetting free wifi! Note, phone reception in the basement is poor so make use of the wifi service. Outside seating is available too. Relax, put your feet up and enjoy a Starbucks!

Probably the best of all starbucks in the city centre for ambiance and availability to sit outside! Usual menu but the plus here is availability of seating and sofas and bug comfy chairs that are still available! Unlike most other starbucks…

I think this is the best Starbucks in the city of Manchester. There are lots of seats downstairs if there is no seats upstairs and a few outside if the sun is out. I’m not a big coffee drinker but I do like the cold drinks they offer as well their English breakfast tea. (If you get Grande or Venti, you can have a second tea bag at no charge). So if you’re ever in Manchester and fancy a coffee go to this place. Also as with all Starbucks they have great free wifi.

I love this Starbucks, Its right in St Annes Square right in Manchester City Centre, all the Baristas are really friendly and they make great Starbucks Coffee, Theres loads of nice cakes, muffins and sandwiches available, Theres loads of comfy sofas and armchairs to sit in and theres also extra seating downstairs, theres also a few tables and chairs outside if the weather is nice.

Lots of seating upstairs and down as well as outside. Great place to people watch in St Anne’s Square!

You’d think with all of the money Starbucks save by not paying tax, that they would be able to sell their coffee cheaper wouldn’t you?
At the end of the day a Starbucks is a Starbucks is a Starbucks is a Starbucks (I can keep this up all day)…
This one in St Anne’s Square is the one I have been in the most, that isn’t a boast (I once one inch punched a Great White in half is a boast, not a true one, but still a boast)…
Gingerbread syrup is the nicest thing I can say about Starbucks coffee, oh, and it’s brown…

After a long afternoon with my fellow Unilocalers I decided that it would be nice to finish the afternoon off by grabbing a Starbucks and head home.
There was a long cue because only one person was serving customers. After about 10 minutes we got to order and went over to the collection point.
I noticed a member of staff cleaning the work surface with a spray and cloth — great, its a clean place. However! What I found shocking was that there was cold cup lids also being sprayed as they were next to the surface. Even more shocking was the cloth she used… she put onto the lids… and then the person who was making the customers order went and took one of the lids (that had the used cleaning cloth on) and put it on the customers cup!
They person cleaning then proceeded to put these lids into some type of container and filled it with even more lids.
I cant help but feel shocked by this? Am I worrying about nothing?

Quit hatin’ on this Starbucks, y’all, or I’ll exercise my fluency in American English. Oh wait, I already did. See what you made me do. I’d visited this branch countless times in my youth when I ventured to Manchester on Afflecks shopping trips (oh hai, corduroy flares), and didn’t really know anything about coffee, other than I could just about stomach it if it were piled full of chocolate and sugar and caramels and cinnamon and candy floss.
Oh, how times change.
I found myself here today to grab a coffee and use the WiFi before a meeting. I’d realised to my joy, due to research on t’interwebs at home, that Starbucks have abandoned their fiddly card system and now anyone and everyone, even the great unwashed, can turn on and log in at pretty much all Starbuckses. Great, right?
I set up my computer with a whole 15 minutes to spare and ordered my filter coffee. £1.50 was a small price to pay for PIKE PLACE BLEND. Oh god, I savoured that cup of stuff, it took me right back to l’original Starbucks in Seattle. Anyways, my filter would take three minutes to brew so I came back, checked my laptop and all was well. Ooh, if I had time I’d even get an iced coffee after the meeting.
I returned with my Pike Place jar o’ tar. FAILNESS. Every tab on my laptop had screamed about some kind of problem and it took me ages to reconnect to the WiFi, all the while missing the start of my conference call that I was supposed to take notes on. My colleagues can attest to this. Anyways the IT Crowd method worked eventually, and I realised the darned thing had been trying to connect to every WiFi service in central Manchester. Sandinista. Manchester Public WiFi. BT Openzone, non-​Starbucks flavour. UGH. But we got there eventually, call was had, meeting was had, nobody lost a limb.
And then I did some exploring. The sunshine (I know, right?) was making itself a nuisance across my screen and I needed to visit the little girls’ room so I took lappy and all my belongings downstairs. Wows. I’d be really surprised if you were pushed to find a seat in this Starbucks. It’s the ma-​hoo-​sivest one I ever did see. There are so many chairs and sofas of all varieties! I plonked myself in a cool quiet corner and did some work and chatted with my favourite Glaswegian. It was brillo. Staff tick the box for friendliness too.
So… always a comfy seat, WiFi cool once you know how, silly iced coffees, me getting all romantic about Seattle, as city central as you can get… St Ann’s Square, you’ve just made it onto my virtual office map. Yay! Ignore any feelings of soullessness décor-​wise and don’t get into Feng Shui mode. Just grab your caffeine and take it into the basement with your office supplies. That’s what I shall do.

This is one of the nicer branches of Starbucks in Manchester, with lots of comfortable sofas & seats, including plenty of outside seating for that rare sunny day. There’s also lots of little ‘nooks’ downstairs, so you can tuck yourself away & escape from the queues & crowds upstairs (unless of course you’re in the mood for people watching!)
Sells the same stuff you get in every Starbucks — I personally like Starbucks coffee, as it is nice & bold. I also like the free wi-​fi.
The cakes are not so good in my humble opinion (they have that weird, long-​life taste), but the panini’s aren’t bad, albeit v. expensive.
It’s always fun to listen in on people’s customised ridiculously long orders — «tall-​skinny-​no whip-​extra hot-​extra wet-​sugar-​free mocha please!»
Oh & for those into that sort of thing… being near to Deansgate & all that, this is the best branch for those into a bit of celebrity spotting.

You can go to any Starbucks in any corner of any country and you’ll see that they all look the same. And, seemingly, serve up the same kind of coffee — stuff which either tastes stewed and burnt, or is so sweetened with ice and sugar syrup that it makes your teeth hurt.
Seeing as they all appear to be built to the same kind of format, you’d think that no one Starbucks is better than the other. But actually, this isn’t a bad little branch — which probably is more down to its location than its selection of beverages.
Located in a St. Anne’s Square sun trap, this is a very lovely spot indeed to sit, sip on a immensely fattening Frappuccino and watch the world mosey on by. However, if you’re looking for good coffee, you might be best off looking elsewhere.

A big starbucks with lots and lots of rip off coffee!!! Spread across 2 floors you can fight it out for a sofa with other people wandering around with watchful eyes, waiting for the first folk to leave their squishy seats. Meanwhile listening to the soothing sounds of whatever bit of multicultural shite the place is plugging down the speakers. Why is it so popular, it’s just a f*****g rip off!!!

Overlooking the atmospheric St Ann’s Square, this Starbucks should be a great place to curl up with a brilliant book and a hot cup of mud in a big arm chair.
Sadly, the store always seems to be packed with stressed out shoppers weighed down with bags from the nearby Arndale Centre, M&S and the shops on Deansgate. As the seating upstairs is nearly always taken, I usually end up going downstairs — which is like sitting in someone’s cavernous basement. There’s a dozen comfy chairs, sofas and tables but they seem randomly placed with no thought to ambience or atmosphere. From my experience, they’re usually occupied by groups of teenagers busy texting and calling their mates too!
Like other Starbucks in the city, the music is usually bland or crippingly predictable — light jazz to Take That — and the hygiene and cleanliness ranges from okay to filthy. Put this way, I’ve yet to sit at a table that wasn’t sticky or covered with muffin crumbs!