If you're looking for a solid boba spot in Oakland that delivers on both flavor and consistency,…read moreQTea Bar is an absolute gem. Tucked away on Lake Park Ave, it's the perfect pitstop before or after a stroll around Lake Merritt. The shop has a fun, welcoming energy (keep an eye out for the cool, colorful fruit and boba mural on the front). The staff here is consistently fast, incredibly friendly, and happy to help you customize your ice and sweetness levels so your drink comes out exactly how you like it. On top of that, the pricing is very reasonable compared to a lot of the newer, overhyped boba chains in the Bay Area.

Some of the best milk tea ive had. You might think these places are kind of standard but its…read moreseriously another level. They offer oat milk as a substitute as well, which is great. The honeydew milk tea is one of my favorite drinks of all time! The service is super friendly and they make your tea *fast*

I've been to enough tea shops that the memories of them start to meld together. However, I had a…read moretrip to Chicha today and it is one I'll remember. After ordering at kiosks, it took about 20 minutes for our drinks. Good things come to those who wait! We ordered: Bubble Milk Tea, light sweetness, less ice Dong Ding Milk Tea, perfect sweetness, less ice Both teas had really good tea flavor. Bubble Milk Tea being more of a traditional black tea and Dong Ding being closer to a green tea. The Bubble Milk Tea had more cream, not sure if this was on purpose. For sweetness, light sweetness was good for me with boba. Perfect sweetness would be good without boba. Overall, the tea was fantastic. 90th+ percentile, but also on the pricier side. Each tea comes with a disposable cup carrier. The space is also really nice place to hang out - modern, spacious, and with a couple of interesting tea-related things to look at including a running video of tea harvesting and processing. As we were looking around, we noticed they have free tea tastings, but reservations look like they book out at least a few days in advance. Really impressed with this shop and will make a point to visit next time we're in the area.

This is the first boba places I've been to where they have tea demonstrations. There is a display…read moreof their tea blocks. A nice boba shop, pretty big. There are 2 ordering kiosks. They have unique drinks. I went with milk tea w/taro ball and taro paste. I really liked the taro ball and taro paste. So glad they serve fresh taro and not powder. Street parking. It is located by a college so this place does get really busy.

Yokee is a cute little hole in the wall boba shop located in Downtown Oakland. My go to place for…read moretheir Cocoa Volcano :) it's perfect for chocolate lovers, rich in flavor, creamy and the boba is soft/warm at the bottom. Service is relatively quick, but can get busy during a rush! Definitely recommend if you're in the area!

I really liked my tea here. I really appreciate this place and I'm glad that like after browsing on…read moreYelp today, I was reminded of it so I'm definitely gonna come back here soon. Thanks for the reminder!

Every quickly I have ever been to was great! I love the popcorn shrimp and the watermelon slush. My…read moredaughter loves the boba

Came in to get a Quick snack. Waited over 30mins. But that's understandable due to there were only…read more2 people working & cooking. And they also had to deal with app food/delivery orders. But to wait that long for 2 of my food items to be cold is ridiculous. I ordered fried calamari rings, 2 unagi musubi & mozzarella sticks. The only item that was hot was the musubi. The other 2 were cold. I'll just stick to the drinks from now on.

I'm addicted to their Mango Sago that I go get one every chance I get! The staff are very friendly,…read moreand get the drinks out very fast. Highly recommended!

I love Boba Bliss and their Castro Valley location is no exception! I especially like this location…read morebecause it's near the freeway where I have to commute home from work so I can grab a quick drink for the ride home. My husband loves the natural ube taro milk and I switch between the tropical passionfruit tea and assam black tea. Both are delicious but I would avoid the passionfruit if you dislike having hard seeds in your drink. The boba texture here is chewy and not too sweet. I get my drinks less sweet, but the regular sweetness isn't overly sweet compared to most boba shops. The service here is pretty fast. I like ordering online for pick-up so it's ready right when I arrive. The interior is modern and looks clean. I hung out with my brother and sister-in-law here recently and we loved the aesthetics and lighting for pictures. The parking here can be rough though.. the parking lot is small and there's a good amount of cars coming in and out.

Their Matchacha smoothie with mango jellies (instead of red bean) is good!! Service was fast and…read morethey were nice

Milk Tea Lab is now under new ownership at this location, and having been visiting this spot quite…read moreoften throughout that time I've become more than familiar with the quality and expectations of this place. This was my first time visiting them again since the ownership change so it's been a minute. What I see here now is just depressing, not just because the place was empty, but it's now devoid of anything that felt like a spot someone would want to hangout at. No music, when I got in there was one person waiting for their food and nobody was even at the front counter for minutes before somebody finally came out from the back. Ordering is just through the kiosk now, which isn't a bad thing. The part that was really rough was the reason why I even came here; the boba. I got a regular milk tea which now they only have a single size. I miss the extra large size they used to have, but oh well. The next issue comes with how much the boba actually costs. They may have gotten rid of the extra large cup sizes, but they're still charging the almost the same amount for it in a much smaller cup. What a deal, right? And we get to the actual drink. When the person making the drink after receiving your order finishes within a minute of making it, it's never a good sign. Why is that? Well, they had premade jug of milk tea ready to pour out for your tasting pleasure. When you have a premade jug of milk tea, it's never a good sign. While I've had them at other places that have done this before, and it's ranged from bad to mediocre, the one here at Milk Tea Lab, now, was in a word, rancid. It was incredibly gross with absolutely no redeeming qualities to it. I generally try not to be so harsh, but this was really not it and I couldn't even finish the boba because of how bad the milk tea was. It's sad to see how big of a dropoff this spot has become compared to what it used to be. This isn't like when they first opened where there were only 2-3 boba spots right next to them. Now there's at least a handful of options within a few minutes away, and dozens of spots within a mile or two, and this is what they're pushing out? It's a shame but this Milk Tea Lab which was their starter store is no longer a place I would ever go back to for boba. It's time is now past with this new ownership.

Still one of my favorite places to get boba…read more Staff was always so friendly and helpful. Even I felt like I asked the same questions about size and boba everytime. :P The mango drink was the best I have tried in the Bay Area thus far. The taro drink was a pretty close 2nd. Ambiance is very nice. Few spots to sit at but always full, lively, crowded and fun. Saw lots of different groups of customers here. Definitely a favorite spot for a lot of people. I will come again.

7-8 workers here but really only one working. The rest just socializing and messing around. You…read morecould tell the one worker was super annoyed. We came here and ordered 4 drinks with no line in front of us. Maybe online orders delayed the entire process but it took forever to get our drinks. The place is small and smelled like cleaning chemicals mixed with tea smells. No real seating and no bathroom to use. The storefront is small and inside even smaller and narrow. The quality of the Matcha is super low quality and very bitter. While most places premix their matcha, the matcha here tasted gross and very bitter. Tasted old. The ones who ordered the matcha drinks didn't even finish half the drink before they tossed it. Such a waste for an expensive drink. Compared to boba guys, this place isn't even in the same universe. Everything seems low quality and the prices are just as or more expensive in comparison. We went here because it was closer to the event we were attending but live and learn, the drive to bishop would have been worth it. And lastly they don't modify any of their drink orders such as less or more ice... or even sweeter less sweet. This is not the norm with how many other shops have options to customize drinks to order. With how poor quality and balanced the drinks were, they may benefit from some adjustments. Long story short = low quality not worth the price. Will not return and will stick with the tried and true staple in the area Boba Guys

Came here for the first time cuz I tried the boba place across the street and it was a bust…read more Ordered my usual coco mango pomelo, it was good but not as good as Ume's coco mango, so so far in Oakland this has the best coco mango. My friend got the kiwi drink and she really liked it. Also got chicken fingers and they were surprisingly hearty and used good thick quality chicken. The staff are also very pleasant. Good place for a catch up with friends and a nice drink and snacks. The chicken sandwich looks tasty I'm gonna try that next time. Would recommend

Was walking to my car with my friend and the young lady outside offered us a sample...i IMMEDIATELY…read morehad to go inside and make a purchase. I got the strawberry mango tea, so good and refreshing! The inside of the shop is very cute too and the customer service was A1! I think I found my new favorite tea spot in the town!

Left to right: Coconut mango blue ($7.49), coconut mango bloom ($7.49), Mango Sticky rice ($8.99)…read more I had the mango bloom and it was really yummy. Taste like a mango sago drink from I-tea, but with hints of coconut which is nice. I customized the drink and to less ice and default sugar. I definitely wish I could have add boba to it. I tried the mango sticky rice and it was good, there is actual pieces of sweet rice at the bottom so make sure to chew. Overall I think the mango bloom was the best. The coconut mango blue tasted almost exactly the same as the bloom. Be ready for the wait! They get a lot of online orders

one of those very famous brand tea shops from China…read more i always remember to grab one or 2 drinks when i pass by. i loved their grapefruit green tea in the earlier days, however it's now discontinued and replaced with mango grapefruit, still good tho. today i got a guava green grape drink it has fruit cubes inside, made with fresh and real fruit which i preferred. sweet level was about right. i ordered from the app so i didn't have to wait in line. $7.99 presentation has always been their strong attraction. as far as the taste of the drinks, just how i like it!

I went to Noori Chicken on a Saturday afternoon and it was empty but there were quite a few orders…read morebeing picked up. The food is great, my friends and I shared LA galbi ribs and a 8 piece chicken. One thing I loved was that you could get half and half of any number of fried chicken. We got half soy garlic wings and half supreme wings. I don't do spice but the supreme wasn't too too bad and they were well worth it. The food was promptly delivered and they checked on us every so often. I enjoyed the food quite a bit and would be back.

Had some take out today. The golden noori fried chicken is excellent and the fishcake soup hit the…read morespot that only a street vendor in Korea could. Excellent Korean soul food, def gonna be a go to now for me Just no magic sprinkle on anything, ever