Tea Mate — Restaurant in Boulder

TL;DR: Save yourself some grief and $ over what is supposed to be a fun treat and go up the hill to Kung Fu Tea where there are friendly college students.

I'm always excited to try and support a new boba tea location that is not part of a franchise. Although the tea is slightly more flavorful than Kung Fu (the winter melon tea is a bit sickly sweet compared to other tea locations), it's the service and cost that really sets this business back.

My friends and I have gone several times due to the convenient location and our presence is barely acknowledged. The last time we went, we were met with outright hostility and impatience when making inquiries on the menu. We spent $40+ and were not offered another drink as part of the buy 3 and get 1 free (instead told that it didn't apply to smoothies...but we purchased 3 teas and 2 smoothies). Smoothies are the same to more expensive to a tea, so not sure how this logic works, however we were not offered another free tea till pressed (and "no free toppings!" was snapped at us).

Note that each drink is one size at $6.5 and any additional toppings are 75 cents each. There is a nice area to sit outdoors, but it does get cold. There is no...

TLDR long wait poor service and ok boba read other reviews and visit other places

Ok so I urge everyone to please read the other reviews!!!! and do not go to this place. if you read the other reviews, you'll see that the most upvoted reviews have been very negative with many people having the same awful experience.

THIS IS NOT A FAST BOBA PLACE! If you go, please expect your boba to take at least 1/2 hour for it to come IDK what takes so long but it's not the quality while the boba is defiantly not bad its nothing amazing worth the time it took to make. Yes, they have offered other reviews a chance for them to redeem themselves but when I went, I HAD THE SAME ISSUES, it's in good faith to offer redemption but to then continue the same things just seems like they are trying to get those reviews taken down to hide their poor business practices. It took 45 min to get my order.

Usually if a place gets my order wrong, I don't care most of the time the accidental item is just as good as the one you wanted. but if you're going to take your time to make my order and seem more interested in whatever was on their phone than this.

Please read the reviews and save yourself the stress of...

Really came here because the views looked cool and I love boba. I would say the environment is neat, this shop it located upstairs in the Pho Kitchen. The boba was not very good and the flavoring was not good, it was really hard to drink mine. I got the taro & added brown sugar drip. Also got the melon milk tea, both added black boba balls. The melon milk tea was better, not not the best boba. Don’t recommend the...