Chicago: Starbucks Reserve Roastery opened, Japanese sake and gin cocktails sold

Chicago: Starbucks Reserve Roastery opened, Japanese sake and gin cocktails sold

Chicago

November 21, 2019

Starbucks: Chicago Reserve Roastery

Starbucks (Chicago Reserve Roastery), the world’s largest, opened on November 15th in downtown Michigan Street in Chicago, USA.

You can enjoy rare coffee at Reserve Roastery.

Chicago Reserve Roastery:

It is the sixth store in the world after Seattle, Shanghai, Milan, New York and Tokyo.

This Chicago store consists of four floors (the fifth floor is the rooftop)

Cocktail bar opened:

There is also a cocktail bar on the 4th floor.

Julia Momose (a famous cocktail mixologist) supervised the experience of living in Japan.

This bar offers 5 types of cocktails only in the Chicago store.

Cocktails: Japanese sake (turbid sake) and gin

Among them are “cocktails using Japanese sake (turbid sake) and gin”.

These cocktails will first be available for a limited period in Chicago for six months.

Depending on the response, it will be expanded to other reserve roasteries.

Starbucks: selling sake and Japanese gin

Starbucks around the world offers menus using sake and Japanese gin.

This is very positive news for the export of Japanese agricultural, forestry and fishery products.

The sales volume is expected to increase in the future.

-JETRO