coffees with olive oil. Plain and simple. This is the new Starbucks offensive, currently only present in the United States and Italy, with the arrival of Oleato. The name, as we see, leaves little to the imagination, and it has to do with the landing of extra virgin olive oil, literally, in the coffees of the American brand.
The offensive began in February, this collection called Starbucks Oleato It is available in very few stores, more as a commercial test than a true display of intent.
Does anyone feel like having a latte with a splash of oil? To enjoy an espresso infused with oil? Or that the foam of your coffee reminds you of a salad?
Starbucks thinks so. That is why he has collaborated with the oil mill and Sicilian oil bottle Partanna to infuse various products, whether cow’s milk or vegetable drinks, with which to create these Oleato.
Available at Starbucks in Italy, as well as at highly selected coffee shops from Seattle —the city where the company started—, Los Angeles and some Starbucks Reserve Roasteries —the brand’s most premium establishments— in New York, Chicago and Seattle itself, these cafes play various styles that we don’t know if they will ever reach the public Spanish.
What we do know is that the intention of the brand, according to what they say from Atlas Obscura, an important American gastronomic portal, is to reach Japan, the Middle East and the United Kingdom with the Oleato range.
These are the new coffees with oil from Starbucks
We have to point out that the three versions of Oleato They are not simply a coffee where you pour a jet of oil and that’s it. Starbucks has worked a lot on the formats, daring to give new life to some of its icons.
It is the case of popular Caffè Latte, perhaps the most common format could be for a Spaniard. Along with this, an iced espresso and a cold brew coffee close the triangle of love, hate and coffee olive oil.
Oleato Caffè Latte
In this case they start from what here we would call a lattemade with the toasted Blonde Espresso, which the brand explains as light and sweet, which is infused with Partanna oil and over which a vegetable oat drink is vaporized.
Oleato Iced Shaken Espresso
The second adventure takes us to a cafe that might look like slightly to an iced coffee, although not totally. What we do know is that it is a whipped espresso that has notes of hazelnut and that is crowned with a little vegetable oat drink infused with the aforementioned Partanna oil.
Oleate Golden Foam Cold Brew
Under the seductive name of Espuma Dorada —a trademark registered by Starbucks itself— appears the third coffee, created with the cold infusion method either cold brew. In this case, the oil is again infused cold into the foam —also from a vegetable drink— and poured over the coffee.
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