Top 10 Best Starbucks Drinks You Must Try: How to Order Starbucks Coffee Correctly for the Best Taste

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Do all coffee lovers enjoy Starbucks coffee? Is it the kind of flavor you have in mind? Many people buy coffee from Starbucks because the experience is genuinely good.

After all, they offer a wide variety of drinks, a great atmosphere, and excellent service. They also roll out new beverages regularly, and those photogenic drinks keep drawing people in. So which Starbucks drinks are actually the best?

1. Coffee Beverages

1) Featured Coffee (also known as Daily Coffee or Freshly Brewed Coffee)

If you enjoy pure coffee (meaning a bit more bitter), try the drip coffee of the day — though not every location offers it. It's a cost-effective black coffee, and you can add milk for free if you like. The flavor is milder than an Americano, and it's typically served hot by default.

2) Americano

An Americano is espresso diluted with water. Want the rich, mellow aroma of coffee? Order it hot. Prefer something crisper? Go iced.

One thing to know about iced Americanos: they get more diluted as you drink. The ice keeps melting and watering down the coffee. If you want a stronger iced Americano, you can pay for extra shots — or simply ask for ice with no water, letting the melting ice do the diluting gradually.

3) Latte

Lattes come in many varieties, and both hot and iced versions are delicious. A latte is simply milk + espresso. Lactose intolerant? Substitute oat milk or other plant-based milks. Lattes are generally less bitter than Americanos, but if you're still worried, choose a vanilla or other flavored latte.

4) Mocha

A mocha is essentially a latte with a generous amount of chocolate syrup — a milk coffee with serious chocolate flavor, topped with whipped cream. If you don't like overly sweet drinks or you're watching your figure, order with caution!

5) Caramel Macchiato

The Caramel Macchiato layers espresso and vanilla into rich hot milk, then finishes with a drizzle of pure caramel — three flavors in one cup, and one of the sweeter milk coffees on the menu.

2. Tea Beverages

1) Iced Shaken Lemon Tea

The default iced shaken lemon tea uses black tea, and Starbucks brews theirs from tea bags. Prefer it tarter? Order it with no tea, extra sugar, less ice — and the whole cup becomes sweet-and-sour lemon juice!

2) Tea Latte

A Tea Latte contains no coffee — "latte" just means milk. So a Tea Latte is black tea + milk, essentially milk tea. It's a personal favorite, and the hot version beats the iced one. It's made by brewing black tea bags in hot water, then adding steamed milk. Tall and Grande sizes get one tea bag each; Venti gets two!

3) Matcha Latte

Again, no coffee here — and you must try it iced! Order a Venti with less ice, extra matcha powder, and half sugar. Incredibly good. (Starbucks' matcha powder is genuinely nice. Some people like hot matcha lattes; personally, I don't.)

3. Frappuccinos

The common thread among Frappuccinos is sweetness — they're all blended with Starbucks' proprietary Frappuccino syrup, usually two or more syrups plus whipped cream. If you don't like sweet drinks, ask for half sugar.

1) Matcha Frappuccino

A famous one, and a safe choice when treating friends and family who don't drink coffee.

2) Caramel, Mocha, Java Chip

All of these contain coffee, and the Java Chip adds chocolate chips with chocolate sauce on top of the cream, making it the sweetest of the bunch. Want more caffeine from your Frappuccino? Add an extra shot for a more complex flavor profile.

Starbucks offers not just many coffees but plenty of tea beverages too. With such variety, it's no wonder so many people choose Starbucks. What do you prefer — traditional specialty coffee, sweet cream Frappuccinos, or coffee-forward drinks?

Really, whatever you order, as long as it suits your taste, it's good coffee. There are endless choices out there, and finding a drink you truly enjoy isn't easy.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Starbucks sparked your interest in Americanos, making them at home is easier than you think — it starts with the right beans. For beginners, FrontStreet Coffee's Classic Blend is a traditional Italian-style recipe built from Indonesian Mandheling, Brazilian Red Bourbon, and Vietnamese washed coffee. It combines Asia's low-acid, herbal-woody depth with the smooth balance and creamy texture of the Americas, extracting with butter, nut, spice, and dark chocolate aromas — wild character and overflowing crema whether you pour it as an Americano or a latte.

On a budget? The FrontStreet Dark Cocoa Blend pairs Yunnan small bean with Brazil Cerrado: nut, chocolate, and cream aromas with a soft plum-like acidity, gentle on the palate and gentle on the wallet. And if deep-roasted espresso has you bored, the medium-roast Strawberry Candy Espresso Blend unites Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ethiopia — washed, natural, and honey processed — with rose aromatics, low bitterness, notes of grape, dried blueberry, sweet orange, and fruit candy, plus a distinctive almond finish. For something truly special, try a Huakui SOE Americano: a single-origin espresso from the Buku Abel washing station in Ethiopia's Guji/Hambela, tasting of creamy strawberry, guava, dried mango, black tea, and citrus — bright, sweet-tart, and refreshingly free of bitterness.