otto tea shoppe — Restaurant in Redondo Beach

Otto Tea Shoppe is a new boba spot that opened a few months ago, and I finally had the chance to try it. It's always nice to see more boba places popping up in the area! I have pretty high standards when it comes to drinks — I’m the type who’s willing to drive out to the San Gabriel Valley just for a really good boba or milk tea.

The staff at Otto are super friendly and welcoming, but the shop itself is pretty small with limited seating. I usually go for a Strawberry Matcha Latte with no added sugar, and unfortunately, Otto's version was one of the worst I’ve had. The matcha flavor was bland and not strong enough, and they didn’t use fresh strawberries. The balance between matcha, milk, and strawberry just felt off. If you look at the photo of the drink, the ratio of my drink was something like: matcha 2/10, strawberry 1/10, and milk 7/10. It ended up tasting more like milk with a hint of flavor.

That said, I also tried their Lime Burst, which was tasty and refreshing — definitely a better experience. I’m still open to giving them another try with a different drink next time (just not the Strawberry Matcha Latte).

Quick tips: Otto Tea Shoppe is located next to Michaels and Whole Foods, in the same plaza. Parking is shared with other shops and restaurants, and there’s usually...

I really love Otto Tea Shop. Their Earl Grey Matcha is one of my favorite drinks. With a lot of flavored matcha, you can’t taste the matcha because the flavor overpowers it, but with this drink and many of their others, they do an amazing job balancing the matcha with the additional flavors.

My coworker likes the Island Matcha and said it’s not too sweet. The store is really cute and minimal, which I love. My only wish is that they were closer to my home so I could go more often.

What I love about all of their drinks is that they’re flavorful without being artificial. They use real fruit juices and quality ingredients that you can taste. None of their drinks are mixes. They use real tea leaves to brew their teas, and everything is hand crafted. You can tell...

New boba shop that just has “softly” opened down the street from us. Was super excited to try it out but left mostly disappointed. We ordered the mango cloud (which was delicious) and the avocado strawberry smoothie. The brown sugar boba was too chewy and had a hard center, it was either an old batch, or not made properly.

Also, we had ordered our avocado strawberry smoothie with brown sugar boba instead of the crystal boba (as stated on our receipt) but they forgot to replace it and gave us an incorrect drink. When we brought this up to the cashier she reluctantly offered to scoop out the crystal boba and add brown sugar boba to the top of the drink instead of making us a new drink. Hopefully they can refine their boba and customer service before...