Gold Coast Blend®
This is our biggest, boldest blend - a coffee with “big shoulders.”
- Blend
- Multi-Region Blends
- Flavor
- Big, full-bodied, complex
- Intensity
- Extra Bold
Just like the city of Chicago, which it celebrates. In 1987, as Starbucks opened its first stores in the Second City, our coffee artists created a blend that would stand up to the coldest winds off Lake Michigan.
The source of this blend’s bigness is a secret recipe of Latin America, Asia/Pacific and dark roast coffees. The interplay of these very different coffees weaves a deep and densely rich, complex taste, with waves of flavor unfolding as you drink it.
Because of its great depth, this coffee is a fun one to pair foods with. Here are four flavors that can hold their own next to it: tangy cranberry, woodsy maple, buttery-sweet caramel and dense cheesecake.