It’s not that I don’t like the taste of coffee - au contraire, it’s one of my favorite things in the world - but I make my regular coffee at home, in my French press. Here, the Latte Macchiato is on the left and the Flat White is on the right:Īfter changing my pants, I finally tasted the drink properly - and the first words that occurred to me once my taste buds figured out what was going on were, “not sweet.” Why these two words? Because, like the Most Interesting Man in the World, I don’t always go to Starbucks, but when I do, I order an incredibly sweet seasonal drink that tastes absolutely nothing like coffee. super conceptrated espresso), then has steamed milk microfoam added to it - kind of like a reverse Latte Macchiato. The Flat White, meanwhile, starts with a ristretto shot (e.g.
To recap, the Latte Macchiato features whole milk steamed into a dense foam, after which the espresso shot is slowly poured in this creates a "dot," or a tiny little espresso stain on the top of the milk. I’d never had either of these drinks before, so I went into the experiment with only the written descriptions of each to color my expectations. Given the seeming similarities between the two drinks, it felt potentially fruitful not only to see what the Latte Macchiato tasted like on its own, but also how it differed from the Flat White. Just for kicks, I decided to give myself a point of comparison, too: I tested a Flat White alongside it. So that’s what I did first thing this morning - I went out into the freezing cold to acquire a Latte Macchiato. The fact that I can now run across the street, grab a coffee I didn’t make myself, and run back home, all in under 10 minutes and with no driving required? That's a Big Deal.
(Such is the nature of living in a city: There’s pretty much always a Starbucks right across the street from where you live.) This is incredibly exciting to me during the roughly two and a half years I lived in the ‘burbs, one of the biggest things I missed about life in the city I'd lived in for the decade prior was the accessibility of everything. I moved from suburban New Jersey to the DC metro area a few months ago, which means that I now no longer have to drive several towns over in order to access a Starbucks - there’s one right across the street from where I live. The moment we heard the big news on Monday, all of us here at Bustle knew that someone was going to have to taste test the Starbucks Latte Macchiato (for science, you understand) - and I immediately volunteered as Tribute.
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