Starbucks® French Roast

Starbucks® French Roast is cheapest in Canada at $1.17 per capsule, and most expensive in Canada at $1.17 per capsule, based on the latest published prices in each market.

Starbucks® French Roast is a Vertuo capsule and fits Vertuo machines only. Vertuo and Original capsules are physically different and are not interchangeable.

Both words describe the same thing. The manufacturer calls them capsules, and English-language stores also say coffee pods; Starbucks® French Roast is one sealed portion of ground coffee either way. This site says "capsule" throughout only for consistency — searching for "Starbucks® French Roast pods" and "Starbucks® French Roast capsules" will find the same coffee.

The published flavour notes for Starbucks® French Roast are caramel, smoky notes.

Starbucks® French Roast is currently listed in 1 of the markets we track. Availability differs by country, and a capsule sold in one market is often absent from its neighbour.

Storefronts list Starbucks® French Roast at Coffee (230 ml).

On Vertuo machines with Coffee Creations the same capsule brews a shorter, stronger cup, intended as the base for iced and milk drinks. It is an extra mode, not the only one these machines have: a normal cup is still one press. On Vertuo Next, Pop, Pop+, Lattissima and Creatista you turn it on by pressing the coffee button twice — it blinks turquoise, the mode applies to that cup only, and the machine goes back to brewing normally afterwards; Vertuo Up has a dedicated Coffee Creations button, and there the mode stays on until the machine is switched off. The size steps down one place: an Espresso capsule brews as a Ristretto (25 ml), Double Espresso and Gran Lungo brew as an Espresso (40 ml), and a Mug capsule brews as a Double Espresso (80 ml). The machine refuses the mode for Ristretto, Cold Brew Style and Carafe capsules — the mode switches off again and the barcode size is brewed — and Nespresso does not recommend it for Alto or the Coffee+ range. In the rare case that the double press does nothing, try updating the machine’s firmware from the Nespresso app. Older Vertuo models, including Vertuo Plus, brew only the size written in the barcode.

The closest matches we hold are Starbucks® Caffè Verona®, Starbucks® Pike Place® Roast, Starbucks® Single Origin Colombia, scored on cup size, flavour notes, intensity and the published sensory profile.