AI CHA — Restaurant in Isla Vista

Food: The Boba itself was too hard for my taste but I do like really soft Boba, so benefit of the doubt. The drink on the other hand, I got the tiramusu. Again, maybe I should have asked for no whip cream but when it mixed into my drink it was about as thick as an in n out milkshake. The flavor itself was a little too sweet but again maybe I should've gone with a lower sweetness even though the server recommended 70%. The flavor was OK, tasted like a basic black milk tea + slight tarimusu flavor until it got thick... Cute cup tho!

Service: Everyone was really nice! The server recommended me 70% as like a normal drink, so again I should've known my lack of liking things too sugary would make me want a teir lower of sweeteness. But yeah, Service slayed!

Atmosphere: It was aight. It barley opened so obviously the atmosphere isn't going to be top notch yet. But they could not drape some fabric over some machine and not look like a white room......

Tried three drinks (jasmine peach, taro mochi, and boba milk tea without boba) and the taro mochi was the only one that was good. I had to get boba milk tea without boba because they ran out of boba 4 drinks after opening, and I had already waited 40 minutes to get my drink.

There are also no pictures of 80% of the menu offerings, and the cashiers do not seem to know more details about what exactly the drinks were.

I got 70% sweetness across all of them and milk tea was barely sweet at all, taro mochi was at a good sweetness, and jasmine peach was way too sweet. I had to throw away the milk tea/jasmine peach a few sips in. The consistency across drinks is not there. Also, wait time is quite long, 5-10...

I tried this place twice and each time I ask for regular ice but they give it to me with no ice. The fruit tea even tastes lukewarm so I had to add my own ice when I took it home. I asked the worker if she put ice in it and I said it looks like there is no ice and the cup feels warm but the only response she had was that she put ice. Also, not sure how well the ordering system is going to work. You can only place the order through a kiosk and the staff does not really interact with customers even when giving customers their orders they are not too welcoming. I personally am not a fan of this type of...