The Starbucks experience we know today was inspired by the coffee culture in Milan, Italy, so it's hard to believe there's never been a single location in Italy. That all changes on Sept.

You can now get your go-to Starbucks order while traveling ... of cocoa powder in celebration of the new location. Additional cafes in Italy are expected to open later this year.

These predictable ebbs and flows are just one aspect of the entrenched coffee culture that Starbucks can expect to confront when the Seattle-based chain opens its first store in Italy early next year.

ROME — A few thousand years later, ancient Rome has a Starbucks. The mega coffee chain on Thursday opened its first location in the ... Coffee culture in Italy is vastly different than the ...

Starbucks’ first-ever location in Italy, set to open in late 2018, will take up 25,000 square feet of the Poste di Milano building on the Piazza Cordusio in Milan. Pictured above, it’s a ...

Milan is also the city that inspired Howard Schultz more than 30 years ago to turn the Seattle-based coffee retailer at the Pike Place Market, Starbucks into a global ... our first retail presence in ...

So while Starbucks locations in Italy do serve the chain's most basic offerings, such as cappuccinos and macchiatos, don't expect them to have the same variety or levels of customization you might ...