Cafe Verona

It blows me away that there is so many boba shops around the Warm Springs area of Fremont. This is just one out of the plethora of boba shops here. I think there's about 7 within a one mile radius.. O_O Anyways, this place I do favor more over others. It's more of a cafe where you can sit down and enjoy your drink with some food or maybe you just want to sit and chat/work. They have plenty of tables and I love their seats. They're velvet! Something about velvet intrigues me. So I could see myself grabbing a drink and then doing some work here. I love half & half (boba place in socal) ice milk and they have it here! Not many places I know make it very well and the closest one to me before this place was purple kow in Berkeley or SF. Luckily this places serves it up :) I think their ice milk drink is decent, I feel like there is something missing in taste but I still find the drink enjoyable. It is really sweet so ask for less sugar. The drink comes with a combination of pudding and boba and I really like both of them. Their pudding taste really good and they use honey boba so their boba has a slight sweet taste and it's the right amount of chewy. I have yet to try their other drinks but I eventually will since I see myself coming back here from time to time. you need to spend $5 to use your credit card!

Food tastes good, except for the fact of finding a hair in it. I don't understand why they can't wear hairnets. I was on my way to work when the man told me it would take 10 or 15 minutes, when it took close to 40. I'd go back still, hopefully that hair thing won't happen again though, ew. Food did taste good so I wish I could give more stars.

I ordered a Black Tea Sea Salt Crema with 50% ice and 50% sugar ($3.75), which is almost the same thing I ordered from Gong Cha the first time (the only difference being that I got Earl Grey instead). At first glance, other than a change in the cup's design and Verona's brand on a sticker, the drink looks like something you could get at Gong Cha. Same price, same system of sugar and ice preference, and they even look the same. And what do you know, they taste pretty similar too!