The Mocha House

The Mocha house has a great menu with great friendly service. They desserts are homemade and are excellent. I enjoy going there often for breakfast and lunch.

Amazing frozen Carmel latte and great desserts. Only thing is menu is very hard to read and understand. Especially if you have bad eyes, very small writing. Be prepared and bring your glasses.

Great place, great people, and great food! They treat you like family here. Jimmy the owner made sure our food was perfect, and the service was great. The desserts are made fresh daily and are absolutely amazing.

This place, what can I say: it hasn’t changed one bit in 15 years. I worked here just out of high school and they’ve invested the little to no money into keeping the place up. Ok they have some newer chairs. Their latte tastes burnt or charred. Sure there’s only 4 other places to get a latte but still, you’ve been the local coffee shop for a long time.
Pastries and cakes are the real deal though. Funny the pastry enclosure is not lit yet there’s an empty case that is fully lit next to it. You can barely see the delicious pastries within because of coffee cup clutter on top.
Torani syrups are the same from when they opened because who on earth is getting kiwi flavor in their drink?
White board menus look like you’re running a gyro shop on a college campus. Must be making money though.
Can’t speak for the food although it’s always seem good even when I worked there despite the small kitchen.
I’ll be back for cake!

I love the Mocha House. White mochas are my favorite — not hot, not iced, just poured cold and with whipped cream. All of the desserts are really good too. Tiramisu cheesecake is a favorite.

Take out completely wrong. Asked for turkey on whole wheat with no cheese. Ended up with turkey and cheese on rye. Also wanted ham and swiss on sourdough with mustard. Ended up with ham and cheese on croissant with mayonnaise

I have been coming here for over 10 years now. I think I have tried just about everything. Never a single complaint ! When I bring people to the Youngstown area I always think of the Mocha House as a place to eat. Desserts are amazing. And that’s an understatement. Also I have used them dozens of times for catering. Again — nothing but the best. Here’s to the next 10 years of great food and great service !!
Glenn
Beaver Falls PA

Save your money and go to the Warren location. The Boardman store lacks cleanliness and charm, and the waitstaff is unprofessional. During my visit tables remained dirty while the staff talked among themselves. My order was wrong, and by the time it was corrected the rest of the party had eaten. No offer of a refund, no apologies.

I love this place. I eat here very frequently with my family and friends. I have been coming to this pace for about 9 years now. It’s a great, relaxing environment. The staff is so nice. In fact Jimmy, the owner, always makes it a point to say hello my every visit. There desserts are to die for too!

A good solid 4 of 5 stars. The one in Warren/​Niles is better, just because the location a refurb end fire house, is so cool.
Hade the garlicky fried chicken. Breast wing thigh leg, side of mashed with chicken gravy, and a cool salad. Oh and a bowl of corn. All sides average good. But the chicken was great! And I mean crispy crunchy garlicky (but not too garlicky) great!
The wife had steak salad. Which she liked but I personally find is a waste of stomach space, let’s get back to MY food.
The chicken was best I have had in years. Remember years ago, when every restaurant used to sell what they called honey dipped deep fried chicken?
Restaurant secret… They all got it from a deep freeze, package of four chicken pieces that had a honey based glaze that when fried correctly was crunchy delicious.
This reminded me of that, except mocha house does most prep in house, so I am betting the chicken was prepped in house. If not, don’t care. It was crunchy, no grease at all, and had a great garlick taste.
They don’t have the veal parm anymore, which made me cry a little. Prior review I wrote for this place raved about the veal parm. Forget it. Do have eggplant and chicken parm, don’t care, want veal parm or no parm at all.
Deserts are all still GREAT so buy a slice, buy a pie! Skip any place else, get your pies and cakes here!
Prices are great. One last thing…
You order at the counter, you get a numbered table tent, and they bring the food out to you.
ONE BAD THING wife had fries, and the cook did not time the food right, so wife had to send them back. On plus side waitress was GREAT (Olga) and took it in stride and got wife fresh fries, or cook just reheated the same fries. Don’t care. But still only people in store so c’mon cook, time your food correctly.
But, minor whining aside, I really like this place. They have different types of good and GREAT deserts. Sick of all these places that just sell wraps, burgers, and five dollar hot dogs.
Eat at Mocha House, Boardman (behind Red Lobster on 224) or the one in Warren/​Niles. Beats heck out of 90% of all other places in the area.

We are moving to the area soon as we «auditioned» the Mocha House on a recent visit to Poland. They passed with flying colors! I was a little skeptical of ordering at the counter rather than table service but the food blew away any reservations that I had.
Friendly service, plenty of coffee refills and great breakfast! We’ll be back.

Their espresso machine was down and they called my Gyro a Jai-​row.
Not sure why they opened their doors today.

My boyfriend and I are in town for a wedding and we decided to come here for breakfast. The place is fantastic! Clean, a lot of menu options, great service, and awesome food. The chai tea latte is phenomenal!

This place is great! I stopped in for a mocha and needed up having breakfast as well. I gave it 4 stars because of the menu style. I felt rushed to order because it was a walk up counter and their menu is written on white boards and are up pretty high. My food was good and the white mocha was absolutely amazing. Even though it was a walk up counter I was still waited on several times. A few of the girls walked around and got anything I needed. If I ever visit Youngstown again, I’ll be back!

Always friendly, great coffee and/​or tea. Nice breakfast to dinner menu available, but since I have allergies to soy many items are not available, BUT they have ALWAYS gone the extra mile to adjust and special make food I can eat. It also has internet avail, and several tables for outside eating/​drinking which makes it an excellent place for meeting friends.

Great place for those of is who try to stay away from chain restaurants. We go for breakfast quite often and it is very good a far as you can get excited about breakfast. Great coffee and awesome desserts.

Good food. Excellent coffee (with free refills!) And the service is awesome. I’ll be back.

This place was a pleasant little surprise that we stumbled upon while staying in the PA/​Ohio area this past weekend. There are very few locally owned shops in this particular part of OH so I really had to seek this place out.
I was only here for breakfast but everything we tried was excellent. The oatmeal, omelets/​scrambled eggs, hash browns, breakfast sandwiches, cinnamon buns, etc were all very good and seemed pretty fresh. They had a lot to choose from for breakfast and all of the baked goods looked scrumptious.
I also tried their chai tea latte and that was very tasty. They offer a variety of teas and coffee drinks so it really is a one stop shop. They also offer lunch and dinner.
The prices are beyond reasonable (5 bucks will get you 2 eggs, toast and hash browns) and the staff was very friendly.
I think Mocha House definitely stands out among the other chain restaurants in this area and I will definitely return when I am back visiting family.

This is going to be a two-​part review.
For Boardman, Ohio, this is an awesome coffee shop. There are very few locally-​owned places around and this is the only place I actually saw young people in my entire week stay here. They have a HUGE menu, a huge food and pastry selection, and very cheap prices. Apparently they also have live music occasionally, so that’s pretty cool. I was told it’s a pretty popular hang out when school is in session too.
For any other place in the world or any person that knows anything about coffee: they don’t know what a french press is and their recipe for a mocha is a shot of espresso and chocolate milk… that’s what you’re dealing with. All the frappucinos are made with chocolate milk for some reason. So. It’s slightly incompetent, uninspired coffee. However, the chai milkshake is AWESOME and the prices are really cheap – but you’re definitely getting what you’re paying for.

Mocca House has an appealing website, but well, sorta didn’t deliver when I was there. From the website one can get visions of healthy breakfasts and «gourmet teas» (their words!).
As you read the below, realize I’m the type that uses leaf teas and roasts his own coffee and has a commercial espresso machine plus vacuum pots for teas and coffee in my kitchen.
When you arrive, you will find it tucked into the middle of a long strip mall, so parking is no issue. As you approach the front of the store, there are two small tables on the outside, so if you had ideas of being outside and enjoying the weather, better get lucky or get there early. We got there around 9AM on a Sunday and those tables were full until we left around 11:45.
When you walk in, there is probably a dozen or more small tables around the ordering and serving area. The first thing that hit me walking into the store was «JEEEZZZZ! Look at the menu!!». Well, I should have said menu (s). There were probably seven dry erase boards side by side full of handwritten items. Heavens to eye test — and I hadn’t had any caffeine yet. We were looking for a small healthy breakfast, and after standing in line for five minutes staring up trying to find something, gave up and «just ordered tea». Let’s see, part of the teas are over there on «that dry erase», and some more are over here on «this dry erase», and there are some more over there too. Why not just put all the teas together? I don’t know, there must be logic to it that is beyond me and my physics degree to figure out.
So, we ordered two different teas. Out came two small prepackaged paper pouches (ala lipton tea style) that went into a small cup and got ‘hot’ water poured over them. Not even a sealed foil pouch. Forget leaf tea and a strainer. And I say ‘hot’ as it was more like warm. Warm flavorless Ginseng Honey Green «gourmet» Tea, eh? Meh
They did come back to our table a couple of times and asked if we’d like more hot water poured over our used tea bag. «Eh, let me think about that for a second — No.»
The tables are rather close together, so unless you are talking in a low voice, you are going to be overheard by the folks sitting around you at other tables.
I don’t think I’d stop here again. There is a (I can’t believe I’m going to say this) Starbucks across the street. At least I know I have a good chance of getting fresh fruit, yogurt, and a decent hot tea there.
Now with that being said, if you want a limited breakfast menu and and a grocery store style tea bag in not hot water, and don’t mind those around you hearing your conversation, you might give this three or maybe four stars.
Me? I score it a Meh!
ATMOSPHERE — C
SERVICE — C
FOOD — D
PRICE — A