Coffee company’s latest venture in London’s West End is an industrial dream of gleaming copper and leather seats designed to lure in ‘coffee snobs’Nestled in the heart of London’s theatreland in Covent Garden,just a stone’s throw from the Ivy restaurant and opposite the domestic of long-running play The Mousetrap, is Starbucks’ latest stab at reinventing itself.
On a damp Tuesday evening, or theatregoers on Upper St Martin’s Lane swarmed past the modern building with huge double-height windows. With its discreet entrance – marked only with a star and an R – it could be a private club.
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Source: theguardian.com