Starbucks The Latest Menu USA

The Latest is not a fixed part of the menu. It is the shortlist Starbucks rotates to the front of the app and the board: the seasonal launches, the drinks getting the most orders this month, and whatever has gone viral. Two sections live here, Trending and Pumpkin Picks, and between them they hold 17 items that also appear in their home sections elsewhere on the menu.

Right now the list is dominated by fall: the pumpkin drinks, the banana bread cold foam builds, the Dubai chocolate flavors and the energy Refreshers that launched this year. Here is the shape of it.

Pumpkin Spice Latte

The Pumpkin Spice Latte has anchored the fall menu since 2003 and still sets the calendar: it arrives in late August and everything else in the pumpkin line follows it. A Grande is 390 calories, 50 g of sugar, 150 mg of caffeine and $6.35 at Starbucks (Northgate Way & I-5), Seattle.

• Why it trends: it is the seasonal drink other chains copy, and its return is a news event every year.

Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso

The Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso is the only year-round drink on the trending list and has been since 2021. 150 calories, 255 mg, dairy free by default.

• Why it trends: strong, lightly sweet and oat milk without asking, which is the order a large share of customers want.

Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew and Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai

The Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew at 250 calories is the pumpkin drink for cold brew people, and the Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai at 400 is the one that gets photographed. Both wear the same pumpkin cream cold foam.

The Banana Bread Builds

The Iced Banana Bread Chai and Iced Banana Bread Matcha are this year's new cold foam flavor, banana syrup under a brown sugar cold foam, at 350 and 330 calories.

The Energy Refreshers

The Pink Energy Drink and Mango Strawberry Lemonade Energy Refresher are the Refreshers with the 2025 energy blend, 125 mg of caffeine against 50 for a regular Pink Drink. They are trending because they are new and because they are the first Starbucks drink with the caffeine of a coffee and none of the taste.

Pumpkin runs on a schedule. The line launches in the last week of August, holds through October, and is pushed off the board by the holiday menu in the first week of November. Individual stores can run out of pumpkin sauce or pumpkin cream foam base earlier, and once they do the drink disappears from the app for that store. The Pumpkin Picks section lists everything in the line with the bakery item alongside.

• Seasonal launches: about ten weeks, or until the store runs out of the base.
• Limited flavors such as the Dubai chocolate builds: a few weeks, sometimes extended if they sell.
• Promotional tie-ins such as the Cannon Ball drinks: the length of the promotion.
• Permanent additions that trend, like the brown sugar shaken espresso: they stay, and the list simply stops calling them new.
• The app is the only reliable check late in a season; the board in store is updated less often.

Two groups. The shaken espresso, the Chaider and the energy Refreshers are under 200 calories in a Grande; everything with a cold foam is over 300. Caffeine runs from the chai builds at 60 mg to the shaken espresso at 255 mg.

Seasonal builds are heavier than the core menu because most of them add a sauce and a cold foam to a drink that was already sweet. Three changes cover most of the difference.

• No whip or light foam: the pumpkin latte's whipped cream and the cold foams are 70 to 110 calories each.
• Half the pumps: the pumpkin sauce is four pumps in a Grande at roughly 30 calories each; two keeps the flavor.
• Nonfat or almond milk in the base drink, which does nothing for the foam but trims the rest.
• Order the hot version: a Grande Pumpkin Spice Latte is lighter than the Iced Pumpkin Cream Shaken Espresso with foam, and a Pumpkin Spice Chai is lighter still at 260.
• A Tall of any seasonal drink is a reasonable treat; the Venti is where they become a dessert.

Treat this category as a rotating window rather than a menu. Everything here has a permanent home elsewhere on the site, and those section pages carry every size, price and nutrition figure. The value of the list is knowing what is new, what is leaving soon and what people are actually ordering, which is the question most customers walk in with.

Check the app for your store before a special trip, especially in the last weeks of a season.