My 2nd favorite set of leaves next to.....coca leaves. Jk...or am I. it's the most popular addictive substance and readily available to most all the world. Not 7 Leaves in particular, but caffeine. I started on this tangent because 7 leaves beats, destroys, nay MURDERS other shops like Starbucks, Coffee Bean and even the uber popular 85 degrees. I'll go into further detail, but the iced coffee alone makes 85 and Starbucks taste like poop. I still go to those places out of convenience, but that's because I live in San Diego.
I know I already left the protip about the free espresso shots up to 7 in their iced coffee and that 1 usually holds me twice as long as other places, but my new combination is to add sea foam to my iced coffee. Combo their top 2 items. BOOM.
Fair trade tea leaves, organic ingredients keep it on the edge. Crushed ice keeps things super cold. Service is pretty good, busy, but most places are that offer an addictive stimulant. Their milk teas are milky and not powdered, they offer lactose intolerance options. The thai ti is potent, and rich, basically everything here with caffeine will give you the jitters, even if you drink the same thing elsewhere. Tip: ask them to go easy on the ice on your milk teas. They load them with ice as some people take them to go and plan for the melt off, but most don't wait and the melt off never happens.
The sea cream is just shipped cream with sea salt foam to enrich the sweetness, add it to everything. A buy 9 , get the 10th drink free rewards punch card is a must. Parking lot is small, but unlike starbucks your not going to find the rampange lounging going on, people get in and out and don't hang around. If you prefer to brew your own tea they sell loose leaf with an accurate steep chart. They premake the iced coffee in batches and you can buy 1/2 gallon take home jugs so it's not made to each order. It's still pretty fresh, but your best bet for per order is drip coffee or loose leaf. I can't quite give it 5 stars no matter how good their ice drinks are because I think a lot of the tea sipping culture is lost in the caffeinated overdose. Also if your going to say finest coffee beans, let me know what those are. If your going to say fair trade, give me a little more background about the plight of non fair trade, if you're going to say organic list all ingredients and options and calories. I think if more places shows the calories of an iced coffee and caffeine content people would think twice and understand a little more about addiction.
After drinking their thai tea, iced coffee, macha and sea foam options you will realize that caramel macchiato Frappuccino you had at Starbucks is gritty, over sweetened to mask the bitterness and leaves you with an inferior drink and is the coca cola of coffee while 7 Leaves is the nose candy of the coca leaf originally used to make coca...
Read moreI have never left any negative reviews about any stores before, and this will be my first time, and it has to be for 7 Leaves.
I have been a 7 Leaves customer since the day they opened their first store and have been going to this location ever since. Today, I experienced the worst service ever from 7 Leaves employees. I came in and ordered my usual drink, the large jasmine milk tea cold, and popcorn chicken.
They brought out hot jasmine milk tea. I then said, 'Oh, I ordered it cold, not hot.' The guy looked at me, came back, and gave a small jasmine milk tea. Again, I corrected them, saying I ordered a large. The next thing I heard was him going to the back, throwing my drink in the trash can, and yelling out loud to his coworkers, 'She said large!' Another guy said, 'I swear she didn't say large' and they all started laughing and talked really loud to the point I could hear them clearly from the outside.
I went up to the register and asked the guy standing there if they know I can hear them from the outside, right? The guy looked at me and said oh I'm sorry. The worst thing about this is the shift lead was also laughing along with those people in the back. This is when I started to get really upset with their service, laughing, yelling to each other, joking loudly toward customer, I find this behavior unacceptable, and it has left me disappointed with the overall service at 7 Leaves.
When I asked for their names, including the shift lead's name, they all refused to give it to me, citing 'that's our policy.'
I wouldn't be this mad and leave a long review like this if the shift lead wasn't laughing with them in the back and covering for the staff for treating the customer like this.
I'm not sure what the store policy is, but talking loudly in the back, laughing at the customers and not accepting they made the wrong drink for me, instead blaming it on me, disrespecting me like that, and still acting like they don't care is not acceptable.
7 Leaves, I hope you take a moment to reassess your staff and kindly retrain them to respect your customers, just as you did in the beginning when you first opened your first store, not as it is now. I'm starting to see you guys losing care toward your customers by allowing your staff to use the work environment as...
Read moreYou really can't beat the convenience, affordability, and genuine experience of 7 leaves. Nicknamed the "Asian Starbucks" because of its Vietnamese coffee and strong brand name, 7 leaves serves the Vietnamese demographic of most of Garden Grove, Westminster, Tustin, and other areas where they are quickly expanding towards.
I heard of the open-door policy that the CEO of 7 Leaves also has that if you have any questions, concerns, or even if you want to just meet them, you can go in any time to do so. 7 leaves also occasionally goes out to Calstate Fullerton to speak to their students. Nothing but positive experiences with this company.
This particular 7 Leaves's sits on Euclid, by the 22 Freeway. It is a bit of a pain to get into since it sits right on a major intersection. The parking is quite small, but if the church next door is not having service, you can park in the church's parking lot.
Now lets get to the store itself. I have tried most of 7 Leaves's Drinks as well as their snacks. They are all affordable, unique, and rich in taste. They have their own distinct taste to their drinks that I can easily determine if I was blind-folded. Their boba has a soury taste, which is not bad, but makes it a little desirable when accompanied with creamier and sweeter drinks. So far, I have tried their Green Milk Tea, Thai Milk Tea, Mung Bean Milk Tea, Assam Black Milk Tea, and a couple of their other fruitier drinks. All of these drinks I recommend. and if you have a craving for a Vietnamese dessert-esque drink, try the Mung Bean.
This is one of the only 7 leaves's that I have been to that serve snacks. The snacks here are comparable to other Boba or snacks shops that sell specialty snacks like the notorious Garlic Fries and Popcorn Chicken, They are not overpriced and come with a nicely...
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