Reviews for Tea Spot Cafe in Santa Clara, CA

Homey mom-n-pop shop for teas, bentos, rice bowls, snacks, and hotpot. Decent place for bento, but not great for teas. We... didn't try their hotpot, so no comment on that. We got the crispy chicken bento and shredded chicken bento. The crispy chickenhad good meat, but wasn't crispy, maybe cuz of being in the takeout box for 10 mins. The spicy seasoning was good andflavorful, with bits of basil in it. The sides were pretty good, with stir fried cabbage and sweet braised daikon (???). Theshredded chicken was a bit dry though. But overall the bentos were ok. For the teas, we got a four season green tea (50%sugar, no ice, no toppings) and a sun moon lake milk tea (50% sugar, no ice, no toppings). The four season tea was light on thetea flavor, but the sugar compensated it a bit. It tasted more like sweet water with a hint of tea flavor. I would recommendother places for four season tea, like Sunright. For the sun moon lake milk tea, it somehow tasted like bitter water with lightcreamer taste and a hint of tea. It was bad and we don't know if it's a mistake or because of no ice. We only realized thatafter we left, so didn't try to get a replacement. Other places do it much better, like Tea Top. The overall impression oftheir teas is that the actual tea flavor is too light for our liking. The conclusion is that we may get their bentos if it'sconvenient, but will pass on their tea, unless the teas get better. Perhaps we'll come try their hotpot in the future. Read more

Ordered a bento to go, and it was great! Can't wait to come back and try the boba. The tea egg was legit and made me really... nostalgic for my time overseas. Read more

If you are looking for Taiwanese dishes, you will find a few here that are very original! They also have some of the tastiest... boba I've had in a while. I really enjoyed the brown sugar milk tea. Read more

This is my first time to write a comment for food cuz this salmon bento is so great! The amount is generous and side dishes are... tasty (tea egg is so nice). For the drink, oolong fresh milk tea is good with thick tea flavor. Read more

Very disappointing! Don’t trust the other 5 star reviews. I ordered two bowls of meatball and veggie vermicelli, plus one... ground pork bento box. All are very salty and greasy. Passion green tea with 50% sugar is terribly sweet. I’ve added theremark to reduce the sweetness as much as possible but seems they don’t pay any attention. Pearls are hard to chew. Totaldelivery cost me about $60 and delayed one hour. Read more

This place is located at the end of a small plaza near Great America. I recall parking was horrendous when I used to come here,... but with reopening just starting it wasn’t bad today. It feels like they haven’t quite found their stride and are stillfiguring things out. The interior looked quite messy and food took a while to come out. My friend’s drink also didn’t comewith a straw. My biggest gripe would have to be the pricing. My salt n pepper chicken snack was $7.55, and as shown in thepicture the portion was small for that price. My friend’s lunch box also was very small for $14. I know things are expensivein this area but this feels not comparable to similar places. The chicken itself was fried and seasoned well. I also got thewintermelon tea, at half sweetness I couldn’t quite taste the wintermelon flavor. The green tea itself is decent. As it standsI probably won’t come back, there are a lot of similar places in the South Bay and this doesn’t feel competitive. It was ashame as the owners were super nice. Read more

We really loved the friendly vibe provided by the owner. Their food was pretty authentic Taiwanese food. I loved the braised... pork bento, not too salty but extremely tender. Also, their tea drink was pretty good as well. Read more

The best meet ball vermicelli I've ever had in bay area!! Highly recommended here. The source of vermicelli is from Taiwan so... it tastes as good as I had in Taiwan! I like the dried radish they add on the top which makes it so typical Taiwaneseflavor. Also, I'm happy to find Sun Moon Lake tea (a name of black tea) here, because which tastes less astringent than generalblack tea. Read more