7 Leaves Cafe — Restaurant in Cerritos

At last, I don't have to sail the 7 seas for a 7 leaves. For a 7 Leaves has opened, just blocks away from me.

Occupying the former location of a non-drive thru Starbucks, this 7 Leaves Café usurps the title of closest in proximity to me from the 7 Leaves on Artesia/Norwalk. That location has a drive thru and is always busy, anytime of day. Parking is usually hard to come by. That may have been why Cauldron Ice Cream, the neighbor next door, probably left for the 99 Ranch marketplace on Pioneer. Fortuitous for me, when I saw the sign for "7 Leaves Café Opening Soon" in Cerritos, I was thrilled I now didn't have to fight for parking and how conveniently close it would be.

Those looking for some goodies to munch on,7 Leaves Café has strawberry croissants & an assortment of macarons to choose from.

For our inaugural visit to 7 Leaves Café Cerritos, we went with large mung bean & taro milk tea (easy ice/easy sugar)

Galaxy's Edge green milk? 7 Leaves' mung bean milk tea puts it to shame, and costs half as much!

Even though they were made to be easy on the sugar, I still found the drinks to be almost too sweet, for my preference. Less so for the taro. I'd probably ask for easy on the easy sugar (easier sugar?) next time. Regardless, both drinks were quite refreshing on a hot end of summer day.

Service was good. Even though there was a line about 7 deep, it seemed to go by quickly & efficiently. A few tables to occupy inside & al fresco, 7 Leaves Café is rather quaint, so not a place for large groups.

Parking is via a private lot, with 7 Leaves Café next to Jumbo Wok & in front of Caesar's Mongolian BBQ.

Make like a tree, and leave! To 7 Leaves, if you're a thirsty, parched tree, that is. I've been a fan since I first went to the Cypress location, and now I can be a closer fan, thanks to the new Cerritos location. All the drinks are on point, and I have designs to try a couple or 10 of the various macarons, and perhaps a strawberry croissant. Then, drown them all away with one of their delicious drinks on the menu.

Highly...

It’s alright. Customer service was cool at first it was nice to be greeted. Yet, I felt people were too nice. At some point while I was vibing on my own on my laptop one of the dudes who works there tried getting my attention. It completely caught me off guard not necessarily the coolest thing someone can do while ur minding your own business… Like I get the vibe they’re trying to set but something about the workers becoming bitter because I didn’t play along with their antics somehow didn’t sit well with me. I’m not sure what the point of getting mad at someone for not being overtly friendly is… it seems antithetical to being friendly. This place is like the haunted house of coffee shops… if you’re looking for a shocking and uncomfortable...

We ordered one drink to split. It was a Large Taro milk tea with honey boba. It was VERY disappointing. At first when we got it a little shocked by the color being milky instead of any shade of purple which we are used to, but I assumed it was just the color and there was no added dyes which is no problem to me. . Once we drank it the bottom had flakes of some sort of nut, which was confusing when we got honey boba inside it and did not ask for any milk replacement. There was no taro flavor. It tasted like milk with sugar, like left over cereal milk. Like they completely forgot to put the actually taro inside of it. Very disappointing,...