Starbucks Reserve Roastery opening inside the historic Poste building in Piazza Cordusio is the company’s first location in Italy, with plans to bring additional cafés to Milan beginning late 2018

Designed as an homage to the Italian espresso culture that inspired Howard Schultz 35 years ago to create the Starbucks Experience, the 2,300-square-meter (25,000-square-foot) Reserve Roastery showcases the theatre of coffee roasting, brewing and mixology in the epicenter of fashion and culture

The premium Reserve experience will offer limited availability, small-lot Arabica coffee sourced from 30 countries around the world, roasted for the first time in Europe and paired with freshly baked artisanal food from local baker Rocco Princi

Roastery opening creates nearly 300 jobs in Italy; Starbucks also invests in additional career-building by bringing its world-class Apprenticeship Program to Milan as well as collaborating with the Fondazione Don Gino Rigoldi and La Scala Academy

Today, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) celebrates the opening of its first store in Italy and the most beautiful Starbucks in the world: the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Milan. “The opening of the Milan Roastery is the story of Starbucks coming full circle.”

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After an invite-only gala tonight, the Reserve Roastery will open its doors to customers Friday at 9 a.m. Seattle and Shanghai have the only other Starbucks Reserve stores so far; more of the luxurious cafes are planned for Chicago, New York and Tokyo.
Starbucks opens its first shop in Italy, in the city of Milan. The 25,000 square-foot Reserve Roastery creates 300 jobs.