ThirsTea

I am from San Jose where there are a lot of great milk tea stores. While I was on a little trip in Santa Rosa, I was hoping to discover a decent boba drink around this area and this place popped up in my search. The store looks cute with indoor decor and a clean restroom. But the drinks were ....a big disappointment. I did not have high hopes for amazing milk tea in this area, but at least it should be decent with the good ratings they have. Unfortunately, the drinks were not even decent, too watery and boba texture and flavors failed as well. :( Service was decent, not great but not bad for that day. 2 stars for the decoration.

On the way driving from Santa Rosa back to San Jose, we were craving milk tea so we pick this place because it has decent reviews but... Food: huge disappointment. We order 2 drinks and both were like water-down milk tea and really heavily water-down. They were bland, not much flavor at all. It's like you're drinking water with a little bit of whatever flavor of the milktea is supposed to be. The texture of the bobas was okay but they wasn't sweet. The shop probably didn't "marinade" bobas in sugar long enough. It was $6.5 for a mill tea with boba. At first we thought it was a little bit cheaper than in San Jose because the boba was included but after taking the first sip, it turned out we just bought expensive flavored water. Service: good. They are not super friendly but not rude. Only interact with them once during ordering. Ambiance: it's a cute little boba place. I do like the way they decorate the store: pretty, has lots of light, small but spacious. There are not a lot of seatings so it's probably best you take it togo. No seating outside. Restroom is pretty clean!

I stop here every time I start a long drive or in the middle of one. It's an easy place to get to from the freeway and has delicious food and a simple but delicious selection of boba tea. Perfect ambiance, great staff, and tucked away enough from the main road that it's comfortable to a break. I get the oolong and pandan, egg puffs, or Bahn mi!

So this place was difficult to find. I was visiting from Reno, NV and I was looking for a milk tea. When you first drive into the parking lot from Commerce you see a Baskin Robbins to your left, and a Subway to your right. The shop is to the left of the entrance of the Baskin Robbins. Its a small little shop, the employees are so friendly greeting me from the moment I stepped in, and giving me suggestions when I asked them what they'd recommend from their list of milk teas. Together with the tip the total came to about $7.00 for a regular. It wasn't sent busy when I stopped by around 7:00pm, and the wait time counting the time of having my order taken was probably no more than 3minutes. Remember you can't drive up and park in front of it, you'd park in front of the Baskin Robbins, and then walk to the left of the Baskin Robbins doors around the building to access the thirstea shop doors. It's kind of weird because at night the walkway was dark, so you'd probably miss this shop of you weren't looking for it.

When I used to live in Rohnert park, I frequented this boba place often. Their drinks are always perfect, the boba is just the right amount of chewy every time! I have never had a bad experience. I also tried out the boba puffs, and they are hands down the best egg waffles I’ve ever had. Will continue to forever swear by this boba place (and will definitely come whenever I’m in the area)