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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Java panic: Starbucks closing all stores Tuesday evening

While Starbucks restores "the art of espresso," latte-sipping blue-staters might have to slum it at Dunkin' Donuts.
Farhad Manjoo

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:22 AM

    Starbucks is often overstated in every way

    I live in a weird New England town that is part dying mill slum and part yuppie college campus. We have one Starbucks.

    It is always active, but what is quite interesting is that there has been a proliferation of other (locally-based) coffee places since Starbucks opened for business, something that did not happen with Dunkin' Donuts. Has anyone else noticed this sort of trend?

    I am neither an obsessive fan nor a rapid detractor. Starbucks does all right at coffee (better than Dunkin' by a long shot, but that is saying nothing), but there is certainly better to be had.

    —Jay Bee Read Jay Bee's other letters

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