Celebrity drink obsessions travel fast online. One clipped interview, one paparazzi cup, or one menu collaboration can turn a personal routine into a full-blown trend.
The smartest way to read these orders is not as commandments, but as clues. They reveal what people want from a daily ritual now: comfort, customization, and a little bit of spectacle.
Why a few celebrity orders become internet folklore
Not every famous-person beverage survives the news cycle, but the memorable ones usually do one of two things. They either sound refreshingly attainable, or they feel so over-the-top that people have to talk about them. That split helps explain why Ariana Grande’s longtime soy latte habit and Pedro Pascal’s ultra-caffeinated espresso order both became recurring internet conversation.
Grande gave one of the clearest documented examples back in a TIME interview when she said she loved soy lattes and, joking about Starbucks sizing, noted that sometimes a venti is exactly what the day requires. That order resonated because it was easy to picture, easy to order, and aligned with the customization culture that now defines mainstream coffee. It also helped that the drink matched her public persona: sweet, polished, and highly specific.
Pascal’s coffee fame came from the opposite direction. His black-coffee preferences were already on record in GQ, but the internet fixation accelerated when his much-discussed espresso order went viral and later became something he addressed on television with visible disbelief. According to CNN’s transcript of that exchange, even the host framed it as an “insane order,” which is exactly why people kept sharing it. In online food culture, excess is its own form of entertainment.
The orders that actually feel worth trying at home or at the café
If you want a celebrity-inspired drink that translates well to everyday life, Ariana Grande’s soy latte is still one of the most practical to start with. It is familiar, balanced, and easy to tailor for sweetness. If soy is not your thing, the larger takeaway is the value of a creamy nondairy latte that still lets the espresso stay central.
Emma Chamberlain belongs in this conversation too, even if the exact drink can shift with the setting. Her public coffee identity has long been inseparable from iced drinks, café culture, and highly stylized coffee content, and Harper’s Bazaar has also documented her ordering an iced matcha latte with almond milk in Los Angeles. That is not coffee, but it reflects a broader celebrity-drink reality: many of the internet’s most copied “coffee orders” now live in the same category as matcha, tea, and hybrid café drinks.
Then there is Sabrina Carpenter, whose 2025 Dunkin’ collaboration put fresh attention on the brown sugar shaken espresso format. Delish described the drink as an iced mix of brown sugar syrup, espresso, and oat milk, a combination that works because it tastes contemporary without becoming fussy. It is sweet enough for casual drinkers, but still grounded by actual espresso character.
The line between coffee order, wellness drink, and viral marketing
One reason these orders spread so widely is that celebrity beverage culture no longer stops at coffee. Hailey Bieber’s Erewhon smoothie is the clearest example. It is not a coffee order and should not be treated like one, but it became a major internet beverage story because it connected beauty branding, wellness ingredients, and premium grocery aspiration in one photogenic cup.
That broader framing matters because audiences now respond to beverages as lifestyle shorthand. A black coffee can suggest discipline, a soy latte can signal routine and preference, and a brown sugar shaken espresso can read as playful but polished. The drink is rarely just the drink; it is a compact, shareable identity marker.
The best lesson here is to borrow selectively. Try Pascal’s intensity only if you are truly built for serious caffeine. For most people, the better inspirations are the adaptable ones: Grande’s soy latte, Chamberlain-style iced café drinks, or a shaken espresso with oat milk. The internet may love extremes, but the celebrity orders with staying power are usually the ones ordinary people can imagine ordering again tomorrow.