Redstraw Tea Bar — Restaurant in Los Angeles

I stumbled upon redstraw during my visit at Century City mall last Sunday afternoon (7/28). The ambiance is very bougie because of the drink prices and white color scheme. Their drink selections sounded promising but their milk teas and strawberry matcha latte without dairy alternatives is a dealbreaker. It's 2024, and many other boba shops and cafes are offering dairy alternatives (soy or almond milk) on their lattes and milk teas. I wanted to try Redstraw's Strawberry Matcha latte but it is only offered in Whole Milk. Please be considerate of any customers who are lactose intolerant and add dairy alternatives to your milk teas and matchas.

For the time being, I ordered redstraw's Japanese Sakura Cherry with honey boba. I noticed that the staff seeps their teas naturally for each order. The staff on duty told me it would take at least 5-7 minutes before the order was ready. I waited for less than 5 minutes and it was ready. In terms of presentation, the drink lacked any distinction of sakura cherries on the drink itself. While the green tea tasted naturally, unfortunately I was not fond of the cherry flavor.

My Sakura Cherry drink tasted like cough syrup and I do not taste any authentic sakura flavor. I'm sorry Redstraw, this is the last straw of me trying your boba place. What a disaster and disappointment. Everyone else is better off trying Wushiland or another authentic boba place in Sawtelle...

If you are in search of a really good tea bar, then Redstraw is a place you must try. They offer an array of good-quality tea. You can also add different add ons including boba, agar boba, and more.

This Redstraw is located on the second floor inside the Westfield Century City Mall. It's small but it packs a bunch of different tea options to fulfill your tea cravings. My first time here, I went with a Thai Iced Tea with boba. The customer service was over the top great. My Thai Tea was just ok. Nothing to wow about. However, my second visit was spectacular! I went with coworkers who suggested I go with the rose tea with agar boba. First of all, I had never even heard of agar boba until they were explaining it to me. They are real boba connoisseurs. So I went with a rose tea with agar boba. Let me tell you, it was mind-blowing! It was so unexpectedly delicious. I can't even explain it. After my experience here, I now have to try and get agar boba when I need a boba...

First, the drinks are horrible for a boba style store. Don’t buy. Second when we got there, there was a line so we ordered online and picked the option for ASAP. We waited for a bit and the order never gave instructions just said it should be ready before 6:40pm. My wife then went in to ask them about our order and there was a blonde girl working who then became rude towards my wife just for asking about our order. While my wife was inside waiting this same girl told some other people that people here are rude showing how disrespectful and racist she is. Most of the people shopping at the mall here are Asian. Avoid this store and don’t give them the time of day for your business. There’s a lot of other enter options to get drinks at around this mall. In addition to this, they didn’t even give a receipt to us either in person or by email. And the hand off to my wife was like they were trying to give something to someone who was sick with some...