Starbucks introduces filone sandwiches

From this month, Starbucks Coffee Japan has introduced a new sandwich using Italian filone bread. Filone bread, using high quality wheat, is a crusty, chewy bread that contains lots of minerals and vitamin B1. The lineup includes beef pastrami, vegetable & chicken, and ham & maribo cheese.

External Link:http://www.starbucks.co.jp/

Additional Information:

Available from September 1, 2008
460/440/420 yen

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GeorgeRoper at 12:55 PM JST - 1st September

They built oneof them Starbucks near where i live,and Mmy wife Mildred pestered me to take her there.

I bought 2 coffees and a piece of chocolate cake, it cost nine Pounds, strewth, i could have dinner and pints of ooking, down the Feathers for that price.

That place is a rip off. Stuff their menu, greedy they are, and their stuff isn`t so great anyway.
GeorgeRoper at 12:57 PM JST - 1st September

Should have said"I could have had dinner and 3 pints of cooking, down the Feathers for that price".
escape_artist at 01:34 PM JST - 1st September

Everything at Starbucks is overpriced in Japan, no doubt elsewhere too. I mean, 200 yen for an amazingly tiny coconut-bran cookie? (their replacement for the tastier (IMO) oatmeal-bran cookie that they'd gotten rid of) and no fresh or other orange juice anymore, now just an overpriced, designer-label-type orange-juice-like drink Puhleeze. If only more people in Japan knew how much they're being ripped off, but then it's the trendiness people go for when they go to Starbucks, a feeling that they're hip practicing their kokusaika. Nowadays I go to regular Dotouru joints: less pretentious, a bit cheaper, and often quieter.

I wonder how much Starbucks paid JT to run this ad...
haytkayokomiya at 02:38 PM JST - 1st September

Great. First the line at Krispy Kreme's is long due to a special donut, and now this.
tetsukon at 04:19 PM JST - 1st September

ColAmerica, if you'll step off your soap box for a moment and reread the article again you'll notice vegetable is one of the mentioned sandwiches.
cleo at 05:36 PM JST - 1st September

I petitioned Mcdonalds Japan to introduce veggie food, and they suggest i eat a french fries and black coffee!!

You mean they've taken the beef tallow out of the fries?

tetsukon -

'Vegetable and chicken' is not 'vegetable'.

Sorry Moddie, but any discussion of food has to include a discussion of whether it's actually edible or not. And for vegetarians beef pastrami, vegetable & chicken, and ham & maribo cheese are not edible.

Sounds to me like a pitiful waste of some darn good bread.
TheNewZen at 06:17 PM JST - 1st September

I agree I often get food-stuff customised for my son and my wife. Yes, easier at some places than others.

As for starbucks way to pricey for what you get. I like ”Cafe De Crie” they make their sandwiches fresh when you order　(so can ask to have staff replaced or dropped), plus they are tasty and in decent serving sizes.

Many other places have pre-packaged foods delivered.
Nessie at 06:30 PM JST - 1st September

Filone is an alias for Vienna loaf. Ciao, Carmella; gutentag, Hanz.
TheNewZen at 06:35 PM JST - 1st September

Personally I prefer Panini over Filone. Mahlzeit.
presto345 at 09:12 PM JST - 1st September

I'd like to try it. I'm a sucker for tasty bread. You can't argue about taste, of course. But if your taste buds are not that developed and are on a low budget you can always find something cheaper.
Pukey2 at 09:49 PM JST - 1st September

Everything overpriced, and sh1t all for vegetarians (savory stuff, that is). My biggest gripe is that their drinks eg latte are sickeningly sweet - drinking them is like drinking maple syrup.

George Roper:

my wife Mildred pestered me to take her there.

I hate to break the bad news to you, but Mildred died over 20 years ago.
pointofview at 11:36 PM JST - 1st September

I tried the beef pastrami one today. Not bad. Its a little under 500 yen which is a little high but its better than the classic/fake meat burger at Freshness Burger and that is pricier.
Nessie at 05:58 PM JST - 2nd September

Alas, Fleshless Burger, where by thy beef?
isthistheend at 09:32 PM JST - 2nd September

Starbucks filone sandwhich won't pass mustard and will be off the menu by next year. Today in downtown Tokyo I saw a Western business man walking with his extra large thermos cup with Starbucks logo and a banana or two in the other hand as he walked to the office in the morning. This is trendy?
taiko666 at 09:56 PM JST - 2nd September

Starbucks filone sandwhich won't pass mustard

Great pun! (I assume it was a pun on 'pass muster')