With all the hipster coffee joints popping up in my area, Sbux is actually the cheapest around, aside from McDonald's or DunknDonuts or places like that. Here are 12oz. coffee prices for local trendy cafes in my area: Urth Cafe - 3.15 & its pure swill. Aussie Bean - 2.45 and its decent Bodhi Leaf - 4.15 it's really good Starbucks - 1.95 meh Night Owl - 2.30 it's totally garbage Of course there are more places that have a 12oz cup for around two bucks, but in general they aren't great. I just prefer to make my own. But if you want to go really extravagant and overpriced you can go to Intelligencia and order a 16oz. Jamaica Blue Mountain for 25.00. I tried it once. I'm really into coffee. It was a very good cup of coffee, but not the best, and it certainly wasn't worth 25 bucks lol.