Honey Berry

Best place to get Boba in Walnut Creek! Especially if you are in the walking distance area within the shopping portion of it!
The staff is super sweet, I totally forgot her name but she greets us every time were there. Well my roommate and I obnoxiously state, «We’re bacckkkk for the BOBBBBAA!!» haha
I always get the tutti-​frutti or mango boba! Their bobas are actually very fresh and perfect eating texture (that makes sense, right?) and the sweetness is perfect! They also have gelato which is not too heavy or sweet.
This place is perfect for a quick Saturday night hang out to catch up with people!
Tasty Tip: Order the Mango drink, the fruit stars are addicting.

This place is 0 – 2. First they were closed when they were supposed to be open. This time no roti buns because icing doesn’t come in until next week?!
After a delicious dinner and drinks at Havana we were excited to walk around the corner to Honey Berry. Since a couple of us had tried honey berry at their former location in SF we were pretty excited to end our night with some fresh, hot roti buns. We arrived just before 8pm on a Monday. The doors were locked and the lights were off despite the hours on the door saying they close at 9! Pretty disappointed that our craving wasn’t filled. Maybe next time

It was a Saturday night, just had dinner with my boyfriend and I was craving for something sweet and he was craving for some boba. Searched Unilocal in walnut creek since we were in the area and found this place. All the pictures and reviews snagged me in and off we were to check this place out.
Once we got there, there wasn’t anyone inside and the girl at the front was under some pretty dim lights. The whole room had a modern/​clean theme (everything was white with hints of green). The first thing I noticed was how quiet it was, a awkward quite at that.
Since it was our first time there, she was suggesting things and answering my questions which was a good thing. Nothing worse than being confused at a new place and feeling pressured to order something quick and end up regretting what you ordered.
I ended up getting a plain roti bun with coffee gelato in between ($ 4?) which is what the girl recommended. When I got it, it looked hard as a rock and burnt (picture w/​my review) and it was definitely hard as a rock, I couldn’t bite into it. I eventually threw it away because I couldn’t eat it anymore and the coffee gelato had a horrible frozen taste to it. My boyfriend ordered the berry smoothie and that was horrible also, it tasted exactly like the berry smoothie from Costco.
TIP:
Free scoop of gelato if you check in on Unilocal.
Overall:
I wasted $ 11 for 2 things that we ended up throwing away. The girl seemed disconnected the whole time we were there. The awkwardness of no music plus waiting for your food. I don’t think I’ll be returning. :(

Good for a quick, sweet snack. Not the best boba I’ve ever had but decent. I like the honeydew best.

I ordered the Peach Explosion and it was amazing! So refreshing. Excellent customer service by the owner and I’m guessing her daughter. They were training a new cashier, I could tell she was new. Anyway, I took a star off because my Chocolate roti bun didn’t seem to have any filling inside or maybe was dried out. Peach explosion was very refreshing! But there was wayyy too much ice. Note to self ask for LESS ICE. Bummer. But I definitely will be coming back again to give them another chance. Fingers crossed (:

Got an avocado milk tea blended with bolba.
You can taste the artificial flavoring. The best milk tea locations use REAL avocado in their drinks and you can see the itty bitty chunks in the drinks, this drink had no avocado in sight !
Plus– the bolba is very perfumy. Like they taste like flowers… What’s up with that ?
Still on a search for a great avocado bolba drink.
Gelato did look delish though, perhaps I’ll come to try that out !
Customer service was on point so I gave the 2 stars :) Plus pricing was spot on.
Maybe I just picked a hard flavor to make?

Love this place
Ordered the peach explosion. It’s soooo good. Even better with boba. Cashier was friendly. U can also get a free scoop of gelato.

They have gelato that’s not to die for. The honey toast is nothing compared to ice monster. Staff were kids who didn’t look up from their phones or didn’t know the menu. We were told the honey toast was 3 inches thick, but got a whopping 1 inch thick toast… no, no, no. Know the menu and get the answers from someone who does know rather than guess. I’ll be at ice monster next time i want a honey toast fix.

I have been coming to this store since before they were Honey Berry, and it is always the café I think to go to first. The staff is always exceedingly kind and professional despite the fact that I’m not their biggest spender. Moreover, I love the atmosphere; every time I walk in I smell the overwhelmingly soothing aroma of pancakes. It reminds me of Saturday mornings when I was a boy which speaks to their family-​friendly quality.
As for the fare, it’s all delicious. The gelato always hits the spot when I need a sweet snack, their milk tea is always the perfect balance of refreshing and satisfying, and their roti buns have a deliciously crunchy exterior to offset perfectly the gooey inside.
Having tried them all, I can honestly say that this is my favorite café in Downtown Walnut Creek!

I came here for the boba drink. I got my usual honeydew drink and was truly disappointed. I know that they don’t actually juice real fruits for these drinks, but this was the fakest flavor ever. The boba was good but the taste of the milkshake was just plain bad.
Had to give them an extra star for the free delicious strawberry gelato check in item and the friendly service. Go for the gelato.

This review is for the boba only.
My son and I came here and ordered a taro and green milk tea both with boba (tapioca).
The store was clean but empty. There were two women standing behind the counter. I unfortunately felt pressure to hurry up and order. I couldn’t decide on whether or not to order one of their shave ice desserts but due to pressure opted for the boba. Our drinks were promptly made.
–1 star for the boba. Hard, and only a few in our cups. My son was sad because his favorite part of the drink is the boba. After one sip he got frustrated because he had to keep sipping to even catch a boba in his straw. Then when he did, the boba was so hard it got stuck in the straw!
–1 star for how sweet our drinks were! Wow. Having lived overseas as well as in LA, I am no stranger to Hong Kong/​Taiwanese drink & dessert places and boy was this sweet!
–1 star for the two women who looked at us as though we didn’t have a right to stay and drink our bobas in the shop.
This place is in a descent location on main but I’m doubtful that it will survive long term.
Not worth going back.

When I was in Malaysia, I loved getting the roti buns at Pappa Roach. There aren’t any around here so the roti buns at Honey Berry are as close as I can get to them. I ordered a half dozen to go, but since I was waiting for my car at the shop, I stayed for a couple hours to get some work done. Free wifi was a blessing.
I also ordered the peach tea with lychee jelly. The drink was okay. I checked into Unilocal to get a free small gelato. I tried the green tea, but the flavor was a bit off. It seemed too tea-​y and too sweet. I ended up ordering the mango flavor, which was also a bit on the sweet side.
When I went to throw away my trash in the cans with the flip lid near the back of the store, fruit flies came out, which I thought was pretty disgusting!

So happy to see temple coffee at this location. Best coffee ever (big fan since temple is locally owned coffee shop near me). I had to try their boba/​tapioca in my iced white temple coffee mocha and it was the best thing ever.
Instead of just ordering the boba drink «fake coffee powder flavored» boba coffee, get the real temple coffee and just add the tapioca to it and you got yourself the best possible drink there (only if coffee is your thing).
Try their sandwiches. I tried their turkey and provolone sandwich with cheddar added on to it, and man… what a great deal.
They only use fresh ingredients (Roma tomatoes, freshly cut romaine lettuce, and honey mustard on a gourmet ciabatta bread. All for less than $ 7. Can you beat that?
Their roti bread was soo good.
But the reason why they got a 5 star rating from me was because of the customer service from the counter person, grace to the older lady who made my sandwich in the back.
I will go back again. It’s about a two-​hour drive from my place in Sacramento, but I won’t mind driving to WC to stop by at this place to eat lunch. Unfortunately, I was too full to try their gelato, but I’ll save that for next weekend visit to the Bay. Thank you HB staff! You guys were very knowledgeable, friendly, and so sweet. Especially you, Gracie! You helped me decide on the drink and made the coffee just the way I wanted it with tapioca! :)

This is only for the Gelato. The place was clean and the person at the counter was polite.
The two flavors I tried, green tea and chocolate, were both off. The tea was over flavored and unbalanced. The chocolate tasted artificial, like a tootsie roll.
Yes they are sweet, but you can do better. Maybe their other products are better.

Popped in for an afternoon boba with some coworkers today. The girl working there was very friendly and helpful. When I told her it was our first time, she kindly walked through the menu and made some great recommendations.
I ordered the peach explosion, which was very refreshing. I’ll definitely be back.

Couldn’t decide what to order and asked the girl at the counter for recommendations. They offered me a taste of the jasmine green tea that has just been freshly brewed. It was good but not what I was expecting so I went with Original Milk Tea that she recommended.
Although I ordered it with little ice, it was full of ice. I don’t drink it fast enough so it waters down the drink. The drink was good but too sweet (I forgot to ask for less sweetener) and the boba was chewy in the center and kinda mushy on the outside.
The coffee gelato was good but not memorable. The cream cheese roti was just a pineapple bun that you can get at most Chinese bakeries with little sweet cream cheese in the center.
I felt like I ordered all the wrong things.
Meanwhile, table next to me had a delicious looking dessert — green tea mountain or something. I’ll come back and try that.

Ordered the patbingsu and roti with egg. Roti seemed to be frozen or refrigerated as the roti bun was cold when served. Patbingsu had the requisite beans and fruits but was not as generous as the Honeyberry servings in the South Bay. Street parking. Cashier was not that knowledgeable about products so another woman was coaching her.

this Honey Berry doesn’t serve froyo.
Menu: paninis, milk teas, teas, gelatos, waffles, roti buns, smoothies, honey bread,
expressos, coffees, blended drinks, snow, sundaes, ‚
drink: thai milk tea, boba included (L, 3.75) no ice, no tax charged
–boba chewy, not tender
–thai tea sweet tasting powder aftertaste
–price slightly high, quality average
drips:
–honeyberry is still evolving
–lots of sitdown room, free wifi
former coffee shop here.

Time: 2:26pm/60°F partly sunny
Purpose: After leaving Peony Garden down the street this place was on the list to go to next along with many others for the day. Really felt lazy didn’t even wanted to go till, I discover check in with Unilocal get a scoop of gelato deal offer.
Ambiance: Average size dessert place of with a minor remodel from the former Kaffa Café. They even kept the two front frosted round glass tables with bamboo tightly wrapped chairs. Inside the floor tiles remains the same from previous business. Walls are painted pastel pinkish purple with white trimmings. Some wall sections have paintings of cartoonish characters of Honey Berry itself. Portrays how the place should be, in real its not close to it though. About 6 – 7 tables with sleek contour high chairs in front half, couple of more towards the back hall restroom area. Center wall console with electric fireplace insert not sure if its functional or not. Next to it cold fridge with bottled drinks. Counter freezer display holds 12 assorted gelato flavors with plastic cups, sample spoons, cup size displays, iPad, printer. Convection oven in back with trays of baked roti bun bread. Luxus pump pots in use with flavor milk tea, premade. One shelf along the hallway with bag coffee beans and tea a long with a few newspaper and magazines. Quite a girlish kinda of place but, will appeal to guys too depending on how manly you are.
Staff: Lady about late 30s to early 40s of Ethiopian descent cordial and overly too friendly. Once you get her to talk she’ll just keeps you inform about the place on and on. She probably went through the whole history of HB to this guy. The guy wanted to leave but, her rants just kept on coming. It’s good to explain how it all got started but, when line is forming got to let that go. When I told her what I wanted less than 20 seconds later she ask what I want I order? I had to repeat this simple order three times.
Cleanliness: Grade A, pretty clean no complaints. Minor problem would be the fuse boxes lots of stickers and tape stuck on there. Previously effort has be shown to remove them but, residue white blotches are tacky looking.
Eats/​Drinks: Small taro milk tea w/​bobas $ 3.25 and scoop of green tea complimentary Unilocal check in gelato. Taro drink tasted like powder flavor infused with just milk very watery consistency as I like it with little ice shards. Tapioca balls were undercooked as first one suck up had hard chalky center. Thinking it was just that one, only to find out the whole batch was made the like that. Green tea gelato was just okay didn’t have that matcha deep taste to it. It was rather light, creamy kinda say more like that of regular ice cream. I prefer rich real gelato having intense flavor scoop after scoop. Clerk explains to me its Asian gelato. That’s a new one for me as, I never heard of Asian gelato before. Well, okay PollyAnn doesn’t count. It’s okay for what it has to offer though the real thing is always king IMHO.
Products/​Services: Tea, milk tea, espresso & coffee drinks, numi tea, smoothie & blended drinks, snow cups, gelato, roti bun, honey bread, waffle, breakfast/​lunch sandwiches. Free Wi-​Fi.
Punch Lines: Clean, remodel, charming atmosphere, twelve flavors of gelatos, underwhelming flavor drinks, itty bitty, laid back, kitschy décor, light bites, nothing out of the ordinary, interesting takes, self help restroom key, roti bun, takes all plastic, street parking, police station, USPS, cafes, restaurants, specialty shops, business district.
Tradeoffs: When there are no Quickly’s around this can be your next motive to have boba drinks or gelato. However they don’t carry a full line up of what you’re use to at other places. Very limited drinks.
Final Thoughts: With only one HB left in Oakland as the Berkeley location is closed up for good. Now I’m not sure if this HB was the same as the Berkeley one or not. However, I learn that this places are franchise own. Company is Korean own and operated, distribution of franchisee is up for grabs. Back 5 – 6 years ago these places would be popping. In the end HB are view as frutti tutti types really have nothing much going on. Just a warning if you come for pandan waffles, fish balls, smoked eggs, squids, fries, or any food other than sandwiches better keep walking. These places will do good from March to mid September as temperature rises, all other times just a shop in the block. I may or may not want to try other goods base on this visit but, if sweet tooth ask I may do just that.

While I do love me a good Honey Berry roti bun, I’m not sure about returning to this location. They don’t seem to be baking them regularly; the woman only had the cream cheese buns left when I was there, and she stuck it back into the oven to heat it up. This gave me pause, because it’s so different from the other Honey Berry’s that I’ve been to.
She also kept her plastic gloves on while counting out my change, and grabbing my bun from the oven. Doesn’t seem super sanitary.
They did just open, so hopefully they fix this basic sanitary issue and start baking buns more regularly-​and better; my cream cheese bun had one tiny bite of cream cheese. Maybe I’ll just get a plain one next time.

I’m one mucho happy customer :) Owner and staff were very sweet. The desserts — OMG! Divine! We had Green Tea Snowcup (Korean style shaved ice with sweet red beans, mochi balls & green tea ice cream), Roti Bun with Chocolate Butter (never had this before, SO GOOD!) and Toffee Chips Gelato. They have interesting flavors. We sampled the Tiramisu, also very good, but no tummy for 2 scoops :) Highly recommend this place. Finally, we have something like this in the Walnut Creek area/​Contra Costa County!