Boba Bear

Excellent customer service and the music here is perfect for party people. Best way to spend weekends, highly recommend this place.

Always a great place for me to chill on the night before my day off.
Not so much space and packed on weekend. Menu doesn’t give you many options but everything I tried was good so far. Go for large size because regular is just small.
Hookah is great imo. I always get the fruit mint and orange hookah.

Hookah is okay. The drinks are decent. Customer service is excellent. Chill spot to chitchat or homework. Haven’t tried the food yet but I’ll be back into the El Monte location in a few months. Thanks Carlos for the good service!

Great place to come hookah and chill with your friends and very friendly staff. I recommend coming here if you want to just chill

Hookahs for $ 15 and after 7p it’s one drink minimum per person. The staff is a little slow and forgetful but they make up for it in friendliness. The place is cute and cozy but it’s seating arrangements lean more towards boba shop than hookah lounge.
Drinks were ok and mason jars were meh. I was going to take one home for $ 2 but the bear sticker was already coming off on my jar.

The Honey Milk Tea was completely watered down and I got a little sick after drinking it. I think that place is more of a Hookah place than a Boba place.

The worst Boba Bear location. Watery coffee, stale boba. The hookah wasn’t even going that well, we ordered pirates cave and it tasted more like a pirate’s ass.
Save your money and go to the Rowland Heights location instead. It’s embarrassing that this is the same franchise as the Rowland Heights and LA Boba Bear.

Love This place! Ive never had a bad experience here the staff is super friendly and verry helpfull! Shout out to Manny Rae Rae and Phong you guys the real M.V.P

Nothing extravagant but nothing awful either.
went there with friends to eat and smoke during our lunch break. they said their food would be coming in tomorrow …
not really sure what that meant. but they had no food to offer even tho there was advertisement outside on a sign.

This is without a doubt one of the chillest places I’ve ever been. It’s a nice place to go and relax and get away from my hectic life. The service was great and the team was cool and real easy to talk to. They have a good variety of drinks to choose from, my favorite being the 808. So you mix the good service and the bomb drinks with some great tasting hookah you’ll without a doubt have a good time.

I’ve been coming to this particular location for years and I don’t think I’ve ever been so disappointed. I love the place for it’s ambience, but that’s it.
The bowl that we got burned out too quickly and the flavor quickly died. I’m not a hookah expert, but I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to pack the shisha all the way to top so that the lotus burns it. After they returned the bowl, it smoked better, but all the flavor was lost. This was truly disappointing, especially since we didn’t smoke more than 20 minutes. Considering the price you’re paying (and there are loads of cheaper places that pack better bowls), this was a bummer.
As for the thai tea I got, it tasted really off. Either the milk was sour or something else, but it really lacked that kick. The boba had a good texture, but there was no flavor to it. Overall, my drink was disappointing as well.
I’ll give the star for the service, but honestly, this place went downhill. I’ve seem so many workers funnel in and out so maybe they’re just not being trained correctly.

Drinks — I ordered the Peach-​O green tea, half sweet. The tea is decent, but it was still too sweet for my tastes. The boba is flavorless, but has a good texture. Their weird names are confusing and I was disappointed that they did not have a standard Jasmine Green Tea.
Atmosphere — Super smoky. If you don’t like hookah or subjecting yourself to harmful secondhand smoke, then you should avoid.

My go to hookah bar! Friendly staff and a variety of hookah to choose from.
It’s a cool place study and hangout with friends
They have a lunch special m-​f $ 20 for hookah, food, and a drink.

A few friends of mine were hanging out here, so I stopped by. Hookah lounges aren’t usually my thing, but I came anyways just to see my friends. Although I didn’t hookah, I got a drink. I ordered the Dr. Green Thumb ($ 3.50) with green tea. It was a mixture of passion fruit, lychee, mango and kiwi juice. The drink was your typical type of tea. The place is chill and just a place for friends to hookah, hang out and whatnot. If you’re not into hookah, it’s not bad since they also have drinks and snacks like any other boba place. The crowd was interesting though.

Compared to the other locations, this one is less of a chatty party spot w your friends but better suites for studying and reading. They have chairs instead of chaises and sofas. And no tv. I dont dislike that at all really. But if im chilling w friends mostly i prefee the rowland heights location. This spot is perfect for finishinf your work.

BAD SERVICE. DON’T RECOMMEND AT ALL. If I could I wouldn’t give it any stars. My friends and I came in and there was 6 of us. At first it was my friend and I and we were waiting for the others. The lady who was working there was white with glasses and she had short hair which came down a little that was different colored, was suppose to help us. Instead she told us we couldn’t sit down unless our whole group was there.
We went to move a table that was not even a foot next to ours together so everyone could sit together and the same lady came and told us that we couldn’t touch the tables. We felt as if we were being judged and bothered and she said because of the group of 6 we HAVE to order two hookahs. Even though half of our group didn’t want to smoke and just wanted to come and eat food. The lady kept rushing us and it was bothersome as if she didn’t want us here.
Then we thought about going to the hookah bar in Glendale because it was cheaper and the service was better by ALOT because we got to sit wherever and if we were waiting for friends they would let us wait for them. We left Boba Bear without ordering, we were all disappointed with the service provided. Maybe a different boba bear would be nicer but this one I know not to recommend to anyone who wants to smoke hookah.
CUSTOMER SERVICE IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT.
If you have something great but you sell it with a bad attitude no ones going to want it.
If you have something average or less as great and you sell it with smiling and being nice, the person will most likely keep going to them.
I know I really expected something different coming here for my first time. It’s a shame that the service was terrible.

Woohoo! This place is as good as it gets!
Where do I start??! Okay, I know… I’ll start off with the essential. Boba Bear offers a wide range of drinks, mainly tea drinks. They have a milk tea selection, a smoothie/​iced tea selection, and even a coffee portion. I’ve only tried the iced teas and milk teas so I can only attest to those — they’re great, tasty and well, milky. I’ll personally vouch for the Son of Peach and Dr. Green Thumb Iced Tea!
Okay moving on to the hookah or as I like to call it, hookz. Similar to their drinks, Boba Bear offers a wide variety of shisha (flavors, tobacco) to choose from… Starbuzz… Fumari… SocialSmoke… etc. Do note that the price ranges depending on brand with $ 21.99 being the higher end pricing. So again, plenty of flavors to choose from but if you happen to feel overwhelmed by the choices just call over one of the friendly workers (i.e. Dorothy, Michelle, Dennis, Esteban, etcccc) and they’ll quickly whip up a nice, tasty concoction to your liking. My favorite is Frozen Lakes + White Gummy Bear or Sweet Tart (Brenda’s special house mix: golden apple + blue raspberry + arctic lemon).
So how does ordering a hookz work? Well, you’d pay the base price, say $ 21.99, and you’d get the hookz to share between up to five people. Coal changes are free and plentiful. Refills do cost but not fill price as a new hookz. The hookz comes with smoking tips for those who are afraid of germs (eww, cooties). Another thing I’d like to bring up is that when your hookz gets a bit harsh then call one of the workers over to help you. Don’t try to purge it out yourself by blowing into the hose because this can cause a back flow of water into the shisha bowl (thus ruining your perfectly made bowl). How do you know when it’s harsh? Well, let’s just say. you know it’s harsh when it’s harsh.
Finally, let’s discuss my favorite part: The Boba Bear Customer Satisfaction Policy. Boba Bear seems to only hire workers who are not only friendly and illlllllLLLLlll but also knowledgeable. Like I mentioned earlier, the workers will recommend you the best blends of shisha. If you don’t like anything about your Boba Bear experience just let them know. For reals, they’ll do whatever it takes to make you feel like you’re at home smoking a hookz in your own cozy garage. Wondering how the hookah apparatus or Kaloud Lotus works? Just ask. Curious as to what brand the coals are? Ask ask ask!
The vibe at Boba Bear is, for a lack of a better description, chill and lit. Let me elaborate, the people are chill and the music is lit. Depending on whose phone is plugged in, expect to hear some old school hiphop, electro house, future house, house, and even some rock (I recall hearing Blink 182’s What’s My Age Again once). Sadly, not enough trance gets played but it’s aighttttt. It gets pretty crowded especially on weekend nights so expect to get turnt. But to be honest, some people, like me, do come to study… it kinda works.
So there you have it, my overdue Unilocal review of Boba Bear.
Shout out to Esteban, Michelle, Dennis, Dorothy, and Brenda for making me love Boba Bear as much as you guys do!

The drinks aren’t that great but I think their focus is on hookah anyway. It’s a unique concept, people can actually study/​do work or really talk to friends here. But also kind of strange, as it is so bright and doesn’t look like a typical hookah lounge. Their new light up hookahs are so cool, almost wish they would dim the lights at night to change the ambience.
It is always freezing in there.

There was a food show event at LA convention called gourmetzia that dared to charge people 30 dollars at the door. The website advertised that it was going to be a huge event with lots of samples to try.
When I got there, it was seriously disappointing. Samples?! What samples. Only a few vendors and they are small business owners trying to get their name out. They let you lick drops of honey and snack on pieces of chips. Worst show ever.
Ive pass by Boba bear booth, and by the way I never even heard of them before, and they were selling boba drinks or something in a mason jar for 5 dollars! So the event organization charges us 30 dollars at the door so we can buy boba drinks for 5 dollars?!
They should be giving us samples of all the drinks. I might like it and might go to the restaurant one day or buy a drink on the spot. Greedy greedy move. Now i got this bad impression.
I dont give a damn about those mason jars. It is just adding to the landfill. Sell your drinks at reasonable price and this is a show.
I paid 10 dollars for the show through groupon and it was still not worth it. A total waste of time and pissed me off.

I go to the Boba Bear in the KTown location a lot. When I heard they opened one in East LA I was excited because it is so much closer to where I live. Been here once, but I would probably still go to the KTown location. Parking here is way easier than in KTown of course since they have their private lot.
However, the vibe here isn’t the same as in KTown. I feel like the KTown location is more popping, probably because this location is still new. Service here is just okayyyyy, KTown is definitely friendlier. I wouldn’t mind coming back to this location, but I would prefer KTown.