Honey B — Restaurant in San Francisco

I came here after work just wanting a light meal. I got two spam musubis and a Thai tea. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend this place.

The crowd there seems to be mostly school kids, so maybe that’s why the staff are so rude and dismissive. That day, I had forgot my phone charger at home, so I ran to a nearby liquor store to buy one. They only had the cable, no wall plug. So I came back and politely asked the staff if I could borrow a plug for a few minutes. At first they said no, then one of them changed their mind and let me use it. I didn’t even have it for 3 minutes when I got a call from the police, and had to go. So I gave it back and thanked them.

A little while later, I came back again—my phone was dying, and I was waiting on an important call from the police (I was working with them to catch someone who scammed me). I explained the situation and asked to borrow the plug again, just for 5 minutes. I even offered to buy it. Instead, they called the owner(probably pretended) and then told me flat-out no. The plug looked like it was from 2019, but they acted like I was asking for gold.

The kicker? The scammer I was helping the police catch—after they made him give me my money back—gave me his charger when he heard my phone had died. That’s right: the guy who stole $300 from me had more kindness than the people I just gave $15 to for some snacks.

Pretty wild. Don’t eat here. The staff clearly don’t trust or even like...

In late 2020, I first visited this place and my friend had a diarrhea after drinking their boba tea. I have since returned to this location a couple more times with friends who really like Honey B. The teas remain my least favorite--hardly any tea flavor and boba always undercooked. I also dislike that their regular-size cups (for cold tea) don't fit into the cup holders in the car.

My rating went from 1-star to 2-star, because some of their snacks are pretty good (waffle fries and fried tofu highly recommended). The popcorn chicken is also good, but almost always without a trace of basil in it. I never ordered their eggettes again after trying it once, when it was folded a couple of times and squeezed into a tiny bag (it was all soggy when I took it out of the bag to eat it a few minutes later).

In my most recent visit, I noticed that they don't give out receipts. So I requested one, only to find that they put a $0.25 bag charge although we didn't ask for a bag. Nowhere on the menu indicates that there would be a $0.50 extra charge if you ask for "no ice" on the tea. When we placed the order, the cashier didn't tell us about the extra charge either. How tricky!

If you are a tea lover,...

I actually had a not so good experience about 2.5 years ago with Honey B. I would go there often and knew what the the mango green tea tasted and there was 1 time that the tea was so bad it tasted like chemicals. I ended up throwing it away because I was scared it did have a cleaning product or something in it and never went back again until recently. I decided to get over my fear and give them another shot and I was so relieved to have gotten such a good experience with an AMAZING drink. The drinks have dramatically improved and my fiancé and I were so happy to be able to enjoy drinks from Honey B again. Definitely very pleased with my recent experience and hope to have many more amazing teas from here! Thanks so much for making improvements. I appreciate boba shops like these! I highly recommend trying the Blueberry Soda and adjust the sweetness to...