Lattea

Super friendly staff. Love their bubble tea! Probably the best tapioca I’ve had in a while. A bit over priced but I’m willing to pay.

Their house special blend milk tea is amazing! Their burritos and carne asada fries are amazing as well. Being from California the food here satisfies my craving and reminds me of home. The employees are very friendly and give generous amounts of jelly/​boba in your drinks and amounts of food!

Great place to eat some fast-​food snacks with your bubble tea or coffee! The chicken nuggets were made fresh, Thai tea was very good, and staff really nice. My friend’s mozzarella sticks were perfect! The décor was a bit mismatched but charming. Another customer was rude to me but it wasn’t the establishment’s fault per se.

good drinks and decent food it gets crowded at night though and the food takes a while to make but it is good. A nice place for late nights

Not bad, but not my favorite for a classic black milk tea. I typically head over to Buford Highway for bubble tea, but I didn’t want to drive so far, and this place had good reviews. It’s not bad at all, but not necessarily my cup of tea. (However, I took both of my parents, and they loved the custard and the honey lemon, so this place definitely has some perks if you’re willing to branch out more!)
Something about the taste of the black milk tea seemed a little off to me — and it wasn’t a strong or weak tea taste. Aside from that, the boba was soft and seemed fresh, and the grass jelly came in small chunks (good taste, but the texture wasn’t as soft as, say, Quickly — it was more like Sweet Hut’s but it wasn’t as large a blob).
Aside from the drinks, the store is small — very cute, but it might be difficult to find a seat if you come with a large group or if you come during a busier time of day and need a seat to work or study.

Best wings in town sweet Sriracha wings yummy. Service is excellent. Establishment clean and they play nice music. Prices very reasonable.

The still cozy Lattea Café is conveniently located across Gwinnett Place so you can get a refreshing drink or meal after shopping. They have at least doubled the menu size and now offer cheaper prices. They now have lunch specials from 3 – 5 PM as well.
They have wings, fries, sandwiches, and BOBA!
I had gotten the coconut milk tea with tapioca pearls and rainbow jelly.
My brother had gotten the Kiwi iced tea with bursting orange boba. The drinks didn’t disappoint and I definitely will be coming back.
Last but not least, they have a frequent buyer’s card, so for every $ 5 dollars you spend you get a hole punch. After $ 30,you get a free medium drink.
This is definitely one of the best Boba cafes in the area.

The owner was very nice and made me a fresh taro milk tea. I thought the drink was alright, tasted kind of powdery, compared to my usual spot (Boba Mocha). This is a decent place to get takeout from, not really an environment to hang out in. The drinks are also slightly more expensive. Nice owner though.

Staff was super friendly, especially since we came ten minutes before closing time (whoops!).
The menu was very extensive — they offered desserts, wings, appetizers, coffee, fresh fruit smoothies, and of course milk teas with tapioca/​boba.
I ordered the fresh fruit smoothie, strawberry and blueberry with lychee jelly while my boyfriend ordered the green tea milk tea with grass jelly and tapioca. The green tea milk tea was delicious! We’ve ordered it at a lot of boba places and this one was one of the best. My fresh fruit smoothie was also good — tasted exactly like what I was expecting since it was just fruit blended together, lol, and nothing too complicated.
I would definitely recommend and be coming back. Oh, and they also have happy hour on drinks and 50cent wings certain hours of the day! Yum. Also, make sure you get their punch cards.

Good service. new so I didn’t know what I really wanted. Staff helped me through the menu.
Food was delicious. yummy burger and Thai Tea .
Place was clean. quiet. I will be coming back ! :)

The lady working their was very nice but… sorry, I have to be honest. The food and boba sucked. It was worse than small town tallahassee and thats saying something. The boba was that old boba texture when its been sitting for a while and the outside is rotten and mushy. The tea did not taste good either. I took one sip, and there is out when I got home as not to offend the kind lady working their.
I have no idea why but we ordered the wings and fries and that was pretty meh also. If I can cook it better, sorry, I’m not going to like it, period.
The location and interior design should have let me know this place would suck. Its dated and looks like a boba place for american that smoke e-​cigs or hooka.
Sorry but I do not recommend this place.
Food and boba def 1 star, I’m giving two for the nice lady that was helping us.

I really liked the fact that this place was open so late. The girl that took my order was patient with me, for I’m new to boba tea and am venturing out to try newhings.
We went late so the pastry selection was sparse (it was 11:30 PM though). I wasn’t a huge fan of the topping I picked, green tea jelly and taro pudding, but I think thats a personal prefecence, because sadly they were out of tapioca pearls.
I liked the environment– I feel like this is good place to go on a coffee date, day adventure through Gwinnett, or read a book/​write a paper.
I will definitely be coming back. :)

3.5 out of 5
I’ve always see Lattea when I go to Ming’s BBQ but I never thought about going on. First of all, I’m not a fan of boba tea at all, I don’t care for it. However, I decided to give it a try since one of my friends told me to try it because of the «popping boba» — I was like what???
So yes, Lattea is located a few doors down from Ming’s BBQ off Pleasant Hill Road, behind Bruster’s. It’s a really small café but modern and cozy enough. I just ordered the pineapple smoothie with no boba. It was refreshingly good. I wish there was more variety though. I ordered my daughter the strawberry popping boba tea. I tried one of the boba and it didn’t really pop in my mouth but it melted and tasted kinda like grass jelly. It was different. It’s actually better than regular tapioca boba balls. We both agreed on that.
I would go back to try more flavors because it was a good experience. Service was fast and friendly. I want to try their food dishes next time.

This place was surprisingly delicious! I didn’t expect too much from the place upon entering. There’s no bells or whistles here, just a counter and a fridge of drinks. There are a lot of intriguing options on the menu, but I went with the lychee smoothie and the churros. The lychee smoothie was delicious! The churros with condensed milk dipping sauce on the side was also a pleasure to eat. I would highly recommend this place and will definitely be visiting this place again as soon as possible!

Visited this place for the first time yesterday. Will post pictures of the menu! I tried their Thai Tea with Boba (tapioca) and it was average. It tasted like Saigon Café’s Thai tea.
The place is small but very clean. There are cards and poker supplies to play in their dinning area. I first heard about this place when there used to be a car meet on Thursdays and Saturdays, everyone would meet in front and everyone raved about it. I haven’t tried their food but the Thai Tea & Mango Milk drink was okay.
Still looking for a place with good Thai Tea. I LUV PHO still has the best, but I’m still looking!

I love Lattea! It’s a very small place I discovered through Scoutmob (50% off your purchase) and I’m really glad I did! They have many, many different flavors of bubble teas and yogurt smoothies to choose from. They also have sandwiches and other food as well.
I came here 3 times so far and haven’t been disappointed! I love the Honeydew Milk Smoothie with Tapioca, of course, and yesterday I tried the Fresh Fruit Watermelon Smoothie with Tapioca! Both drinks were phenomenal and somewhat healthy! They have a smoothie program which you order 5 smoothies and get the next smoothie FREE.
I will definitely be coming back here soon!

I always end up coming here after eating at either Ming’s BBQ or Iron Age, which are both located in the same shopping complex. Also the ongoing Scout Mob makes it very, very tempting.
Shop is small but there are plenty of tables and I have never seen this place busy. They also have playing cards for you to borrow. They use to play really good music videos ranging from K-​Pop to old school 90s, but have since switched to just Pandora. Lame.
Service can be spotty. They are all really nice, but get confused when you try to customize your drink. I usually get jasmine green milk tea with no ice or tapioca and will end up with ice or tapioca in it atleast every other time I come here.
I can only comment on the milk teas here. For my taste they are too milky and lack any tea flavor. I tried the thai tea and thought the same. Just not a fan of their drinks. Have yet to try their food.
After my last visit, I think I’m just going to make the quick drive down the road to Quickly or Boba Mocha next time to get my bubble tea fix.

The best thing about Lattea: it’s open late. Monday-​Friday: noon-​2am. Saturday and Sunday: noon-​3am.
Lattea is a bubble tea shop cut in the same Chinese/​Taiwanese mold as Quickly and Sweet Hut. They have a solid selection of teas and smoothies like Quickly. No buns and pastries like Sweet Hut, though. They do have fried snacks — for example, fried squid, chicken nuggets, sweet potato fries, fish balls, cuttlefish balls, etc. Like the Quickly location in Duluth, Lattea also offers more traditional sized «meals» such as rice plates like mapo tofu and, uncharacteristically, a veggie plate. So there is some food to speak of. The rice plates are affordable (up to $ 8 per).
There are over a dozen milk tea flavors. Smalls are only $ 1.50, mediums $ 2.45, and larges $ 3.45. House special teas are more expensive. Toppings include the traditional tapioca pearls (or «boba»), mango poppers (little chewable balls with mango juice in them), jellies such as lychee jelly and grass jelly, and egg pudding. By default, all teas come ice cold, but any one of them can be prepared hot as well (at your request).
The teas I recommend are the roasted black milk tea with grass jelly (house special) and the taro milk tea. The milk tea quality here is among the best in Atlanta, potentially *the* best. It’s smooth, fresh, and not powdery or overly creamy. Well-​balanced flavors overall. I’m impressed so far.
The store is small and cute. You’ll find random things at each table like a trash dispenser that looks like a pig or set of buttons that look like they were taken from a giant computer keyboard. There isn’t a whole lot of seating inside. There’s additional seating in the back in a sort of «private» room. It’s not really private, but it just feels like it. IKEA furniture throughout.
There’s a TV in the main room that plays a random variety of music videos. By random, I mean everything from mainstream American music like Beyonce to up-​and-​coming Japanese pop stars of yesteryear that never made it (Mai Kuraki).
Staff is friendly enough. They work hard to get orders processed quickly and efficiently.
Free Wi-​Fi is available and the password is written on the wall behind the counter. Lattea isn’t as conducive a place for hanging out and/​or coming with your laptop or iPad to chill (or work). I prefer Sweet Hut’s atmosphere (bigger space with more comfortable seating).
One thing I don’t like about Lattea is that it can get a bit dirty and sticky from all the foot traffic and some of their tables are about to fall apart. Minor gripes aside, they excel at what counts most: making good milk teas.
Credit card minimum: $ 10.

Lattea is an intimate dessert shop in the same vain as Sweet Hut, Quickly, and Boba Mocha. They sell boba teas, smoothies, other Asian dessert items, and Chinese snacks.
They have XL as one of the boba teas sizes. That is a lot of boba tea. If you want to over-​indulge in your boba tea, get the XL size. I assure you you’ll get sick of boba tea afterwards.
I like how they have avocado smoothies on the menu. Even better, they actually had avocados to make smoothies with. Most places that I tried ordering avocado smoothies never had any avocados. Props to Lattea of having them.
I didn’t like how the whole atmosphere felt ghetto. I think it was the gangster music they were playing on the TV screen. I’m more used to cutsey K-​pop, J-​pop, C-​pop music playing at these tea places. Instead, I see Soulja Boy cranking and supermaning hos. I guess it’s a nice break from the ultra-​cutsey, girly tea places.
I liked my avocado smoothie and the boba tea I tried. They tasted fine. The service seemed friendly and casual. At least I got some laid back dude taking my order instead of loud, obnoxious, fobby, Chinese girls like Quickly.
Another plus is that they have several deals going on with Unilocal,Scoutmob, and possibly other coupon places. They open late as well. So far I like it.

The first time I came to Lattea must have been soon after it had opened. Not realizing that they were fairly new, I had zero expectations. I had ordered the regular Black Milk Tea with boba, but I recall it tasting less than mediocre. So I had no interest in returning. That is, until very recently.
Knowing that several of my friends and fellow Unilocalers really like Lattea, I decided to give them one more try after well over a year. I’m really glad I did!
Recently, I went to Lattea on a Sunday afternoon. I wanted to give the Black Milk Tea a second try, but the employee suggested I try the House Special Milk Tea. When I asked what made the «House Special» different from a regular Black Milk Tea, the employee told me that, to put it as simply as possible, the tea leaves used for the Black Milk Tea are from California while the leaves used for the House Special are from China. So I said sure, why not? At $ 2.75 for a regular size, it was the same price as a regular Black Milk Tea anyway.
There were no other customers, so I got my House Special Milk Tea really fast. I tasted it and immediately loved it! It was the perfect sweetness, and the boba balls were smaller than I’m used to but had the right texture. I’m really glad the employee recommended I try it.
Overall, Lattea gets 4 stars for their tasty House Special Milk Tea and friendly employee. If only they had a frequent buyer card… Now THAT would be super awesome. I haven’t tried any of their snack or dessert items, but I’m sure I will very soon. I will definitely return when I’m back in the Duluth area and highly recommend their House Special Milk Tea!
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