This place closes about a half hour early most days. Says 8pm and I've gotten there at 7:30-7:40 several times to see the lights off and doors locked read more

Girl who took the order and rang me up was nice and friendly. But the owner who was training her seemed stand offish. He made our drinks too.... taro drink was still grainy (since they use powder, as most boba places do) and hadn't noticed until I got to the middle of the drink. The boba was a slight bit underdone too. I've frequented many other boba places and even make my own at home, so I know how it's supposed to be. Anyway, won't return. read more

get the peach/lychee iced tea. and their ice cream waffles are pretty bomb, too. and eric is such a cutie. read more

Bobaloca - Love - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Riverside, California

Very very very slow service. Came on Sunday and I think only the owner was working. Waited almost 30 minutes for 1 drink. That being said it was a great drink. Would I wait again. Probably not. But my girlfriend really likes it. read more

First timer. I was helped by Carol, who was very helpful and friendly. She offered me the tapioca milk tea sample, it was amazing. However, I went for the Thai tea with boba. It was pretty good, the texture of the boba was a little over cooked, and the tea was not as strong as I like it. But I am a really harsh critic when it comes to my faves. I might come here again whenever I'm in the area. read more

Not very good we got a smoothie and Thai tea boba . Boba alone was gross no flavor normally it's a little sweet and tea was gross. Smoothie tasted like ok'd fruit read more

Love the owners and their passion for bettering our community. Always positive and helpful and take on these young kids to mentor with great morals!!!!!!! read more

We have gone here many times but yesterday the Husb made our drink it was wrong I spoke up He was so rude. I said we ordered banana, choc received strawberry he shook his head. Did not want to remake it ! The wife has been nice. Commented now I have to throw it away said next time you cannot do this. Not our fault. Didn't even say keep it as he would toss. Or remake for free demanded the extra .50 charge. He was so rude.I feel not our fault he made it wrong. They should have cards to punch and so many u get a free one read more

Amazing place! Always drive out to them just to have their boba ! My friend recommended me and ever since then I always go back!

The best boba ever I love going there every time cuz there fast and nice people I give them 100%|

The location is pretty good since it's close to a high school and the price is alright it's not too expensive to the point where I don't want to buy it. But I guess they get their profits though students as they are the only boba place around. The drinks aren't bad. read more

Service today wasn't on point! We placed our 3-drink orders. After us there was another order by 2 -young ladies and then and other order by some other lady! The other two orders got their drinks before us followed by the single order after them...REALLY...smh! I won't bother tipping again! read more

Love this place it's my favorite boba place one of the first ones to do it in riverside! The customer service is great and we should definitely be supporting our local small business I completely recommend this boba place! I hope Yelp doesn't delete my review they usually do it's like if you don't leave a bad review you are not important read more

We love this place! Our favorite place to go when we are craving something a little sweet. My go to is a strawberry smoothie with boba and my husband usually gets the chocolate banana smoothie with boba. I'm sure anything that you get is a great choice, though! It usually gets busy when the high schoolers are getting out of school but if you go on a weekday during school hours or even on a weekend you'll be good. read more

Two stars because the Boba is great however the service sucks! I go in and sit down, since I was waiting on my friend to arrive to order together. I'm sitting in the lobby, not even for five minutes... the owner comes out and looks at me and says "you have to order something." I say "I am, I am waiting on a friend", then he points to a sign in his lobby reading, "No Loitering". I look at him and say, "I am not loitering, I haven't even been here for five minutes". It really pissed me off because I used to go there like three times a week before school. And I go in there one day and sit down to wait for someone and he comes at me with that? Its okay, I saved 3.99 for every day I have not gone back. I never went back again because of this experience. Just grabbed my boba that day and left. read more

I have been coming to this place for years especially when I was working in the area. I recently revisited the place to study for a couple hours before a very important exam in a nearby testing center. Environment is quiet with a steady flow of customers. I have always ordered my usual taro slush with boba. The boba is always perfectly chewy. I was tempted to try a waffle to calm my nerves, but thought it might up my sugar level which would not have been good. I will definitely return at some point to try the waffle and maybe experiment with a few drinks. The customer service is always friendly as culturally acceptable. This place is owned and operated by first generation Asians, so please excuse that they are not overly bubbly as expected in American culture. For me, as long as the product meets my expectations and there is no overt rudeness, I am game! A suggestion would be to offer plant-based milk for the smoothies and slushies as well as a low sugar option for drinks and this place will be even more awesome! read more

Bobaloca - Large Taro Slush with Boba - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Riverside, California

Came by to grab a quick drink because I like their drinks here... I really don't like their prices.. Too expensive... Worst of all, there wasn't many ppl waiting but my 4 drinks took them about 30 minutes to make!! This has been the 2nd time in a row that this has happened. read more

The best place my boyfriend has been going since he was a kid. The male owner remember our order every time we come in. They are alway nice.

Very rude!!! Boba is good, just rude customer service. Walked in with a group of friends all bought boba except one, he was told to leave or buy one it was empty so seating wasn't an excuse! read more

this is the worst place to get boba worst customer service cant even finish your drink in peace without the old lady and man starring at you and asking you to leave dont come here !!!!!! read more

The drinks are very good. The actual boba ball things are not so good. I always ask for no boba. Smoothies alone are very good tho.

Each item that we've ordered has been consistently delicious, and the establishment is always exceptionally clean & tidy. One day we'll step outside of the smoothie realm & try their other menu items, but the smoothies are addicting and we're hooked! My fav is the mango pineapple with free boba. My children and I have been coming here for nearly two years now, and will continue to do so. read more

The Taro slushie is hands down my favorite! Not too sweet, not too bland. Just right. This is one of those places that set a standard for your taste buds. I would definitely go back. I also just love their boba, something about it is just better than most boba. read more

This place is alright. Their mangoes are fresh and delicious. I'll say that. Their service is nice and friendly too.

This is an awesome friendly and clean place to hang out and enjoy a boba or two lol definitely try the shaved ice with fruits it's sooooo good. The boba is cooked perfectly too! I go at least once or twice a week. Def check this place out read more

I love this place! Bobas are a bit hard but no biggie I always ask for a little boba anyways :)

This place is pretty okay, the drinks aren't bad or great. I've had drinks from here a few times and I'm not sure what this place is missing. read more

Horrible customer service, as a owner you would think they would approach you nice about leaving. Not this place the guy(Asian) that is making the drinks was rude. He said from across the room "we are wrapping it up because we are closing" and he made a had gesture like telling us to go already. To me that's bad customer service as a owner I would say would you like to make a last purchasing as we are closing for tonight for the customer to get a clue that their queue to leave. The drinks are good but just bad customer service. read more

Really disappointed in the boba here. I guess Riverside isn't a place to go for quality boba. The jasmine milk tea was bitter, not sweet and they don't even have black milk tea! There are definitely better boba places than this one. However the slushies are good, like the strawberry and mango slushes. The quality of the boba is not that good if you have had other boba like Half n Half Teahouse, Class 302, or other boba places in Cerritos, northern California and/or the Los Angeles area. Though, this might taste good to you if you have never had boba before. The boba itself is quite bland and flavorless. read more

We like to stop by every once in awhile to get our boba fix, they are still going strong and the business is family owned so make sure you support your local mom & pop shops! Delicious drinks and they have everything, smoothies, slushies, milkshakes, milk teas, all different flavors. They are friendly too. read more

I wouldn't even give one star. The Customer service is awful. The owner and his wife actually say that "talking to the customer and making conversation doesn't make them money." They instruct their employees not to talk to the customers unless it's about a drink and to keep your answers short and to a minimum. They also are not clean..There is another boba place called Ten Ren and I would advise everyone to go there instead, off university! read more

Total lack of customer service! I wanted to give them a second chance, by going there a second time to try another flavor, but super distasteful and dissatisfied. Going back to their lack of customer service: employees/owners just wanted to do their job and get rid of the customer; neither genuine interest nor concern for customer's needs. The lady owner there, looked at us all frazzled, like we didn't know what we were talking about and said, "Why are you making this hard for me?" What happened to making the customers happy? Never coming back again. Thumbs down all the way read more

My two boys and I ordered 3 drinks. My younger son dropped his on accident and made a mess. I stood by the spill to make sure no customers stepped in it and I was going to assist in cleaning up my son's mess. I felt bad of course. The owner, a stupid Asian lady, came over to me and told me that she would pick it up. 10 minutes passed and they had not replaced my son's drink. He went and asked the owner if he could get another one and she rudely said no because it was his fault for dropping it. I got up and asked her to please give him another one and she said it is the owners discretion whether they replace it or not and that she was not going to replace it. I told her it was an honest accident. She still said no because I did not say "sorry" and didnt clean it. I told her I was there to help but the first thing that came out of her mouth was that she would clean it. By now I was MAD. I said so if I would have said sorry you would have given me another one? She said yes but since I didn't she will not replace it. told her that now I understand why so many people leave horrible YELP reviews about her. She said she didn't care. By now we are both yelling at each other. She proceeded to say it took her a long time to clean up because of me and that she was not there to pick up my mess. I went and got my boys and told them we were leaving. She was still rambling about picking up after us as we walked out. I took my son's drink and dumped it all over the floor and told her that I was leaving more of a mess for her ass to pick up!! She is a horrible business owner. She has a lot of complaints!! read more

Good Boba's but I am disappointed with the service/company. I got a boba the other day and said no ice in it since I had a cold. The guy charged me an extra dollar for no ice. I asked why and he said, " the computer automatically does it because you get more tea." That is just crazy. I didn't ask for a bigger cup. I am asking for the 16oz of tea they are supposed to give me in the cup. Where is the extra tea? If anything you guys are conning the customers out of tea by adding a glass full of ice. I just thought that was a bunch of BS. read more

Quick service, place is clean and cute. The kids love the shakes with boba. Breakfast waffles are huge and full of fruit.

Good little boba place to go with many variety. They have Korean BingSoo (shaved ice with fruits) which is excellent (you can ask them to put some boba if you like). Sometimes, it isn't quite as good as the very first shop (franchise) back in Los Angeles but as close as it can get. read more

It's been HOT lately and everytime I'm down in Riverside I find myself craving an ice cold slush with boba. Bobaloca is small, clean, not crowded and in a weird spot. In fact, I always end up going to Lolicup (the boba at Lolicup I think is much better) but since Lolicup stopped selling waffles a while ago I may start going here and ordering a slush without the boba. I found the boba to be not so sweet or tasty and it hardened up pretty quickly. The waffles on the other hand taste great and are cooked to perfection. They taste like the Mickey waffles I love at Disneyland. They're a bit pricey but when I walked in yesterday I was hit with that fresh waffle smell and immediately wanted one so I got a waffle with fresh fruit (bananas, kiwi and strawberry) and ice cream, although I could've done without the ice cream. Definitely have to remember to come here more often since it's closer than Lolicup and they have waffles! read more

And had the almond milk tea. Their other non dairy option is coconut milk tea. Vegan friendly. The almond milk tea was very flavorful, they did not over rely on sweetness or leave it bland like other almond milk teas at other boba shops. The boba was the right firm/soft ratio. Would return, although not a lot of exciting boba flavors... wouldn't mind seeing something with coffee or chocolate (chocolate winter melon is amazing) in future. Comparing to the amazing boba shops in San Diego, the flavor and quality is there, but I would consider saying 3/4 sweetness and double boba. I ran out of boba halfway through my regular sized drink and it got too sweet for me about halfway through as well. read more

Delicious slushes and smoothies. A bit on the pricey side but very refreshing to have every now and them

Great honeydew and thai teas. The boba is cooked just right, not too chewing, not too soft. The staff and owner are very friendly and the prices are cheap! We will keep coming back for sure! read more