Agha Juice & Cafe

This is a Pakistani Smoothie joint. I didn’t know such a place existed until I stumbled upon it. Almost all the drinks here are more expensive than Starbucks and any other juce bar, smoothie bar or café you go to. However, once you try one of their million calorie shakes you are hooked for like. I get the mango delight. A ooey gooey mango ice cream milk shake with pistachios and other goodies in it.

I love this place! Shout out to Alvin and Ms. Rosa!
Everything here is good, my favorite is the Karachi burger, their chicken quesadilla, any kulfa, sugar cane juice, and and falooda. The line gets long and the wait is sometimes long but oh so worth it. I’m always a repeat customer

The place looks good from the outside and the inside. A friend of mine recommended this place instead of the Starbucks nearby which has horrible reviews. I go inside and the cashier is friendly and the purchase was quick. I got a Candy Delight which was probably the most similar to Starbucks. Surprisingly, the wait time was not long at all. We came in and left pretty quick. I recommend it over the Starbucks nearby!

I don’t know about the food as much only their quesedilla which were really good, but the drinks r to die for. We r here every week for our dose of falooda and chikoo shake…
Would have given 5 stars but only reason I am not rating 5 stars is because they run out of drinks fast. Especially if u r coming from north it’s kinda frustrating not to get what u came for… so they should work on that. 4.5 stars to Agha’s

More training is required for employees. They are rude to customers. Credit card hardly works.

Disgusting. My son wanted to try this place after walking past the sign in the window several times. The menu was appealing, a bit overpriced, but my son was due for a treat. After ordering, we were fifteen minutes waiting for our one smoothie and watching many orders, placed after ours, being filled. So we had time to notice the tables were all filthy and one employee repeatedly overfilled the blenders and sucked the resultant spilled juices off her fingers while preparing the smoothies. It was difficult to get anyone’s attention but they finally listened to me asking about our order, then immediately started arguing amongst themselves about who would have to make it, assuming because of my race that I would not understand their language. I told them in that language I did not want to wait another fifteen minutes for them to settle this, and anyone was fine other than the finger-​licker. Only then did someone finally make our order. At no time did anyone apologize in any way. Indeed there was not a pleasant expression to be found on anyone in the place. Not even my son had a smile because his smoothie when he finally got it was so overfilled with ice it barely tasted like anything.

Good stuff.
Food: Havent tried
Drinks: Awesome… esp the mango and pistachio shakes. Pineapple smoothie pleased the taste buds as well.
Enviroment: newly renovated. looks fresh/​clean

Yes! I am so happy they finally have prices up! Although I love this place, I always thought it was shady that there were no prices for anything anywhere. Unfortunately, costs are a little steep, but somehow I always find myself coming back.
I like this place more for the concept then the actual taste of their products. They are good, don’t get me wrong, but they aren’t amazing. It’s just very convenient to be able to walk into Agha’s and order yourself a gola ganda, kulfi, or falooda, which may not be available at other Indian/​Pakistani restaurants.
For people who aren’t familiar with Indian/​Pakistani desserts, they menu has pictures too which is nice since I feel like it’s probably necessary for some people. Also they have renovated the store to have more seating. I think that this is a place that anyone (who enjoys sweets) can enjoy. They also have actual food on their menu, but I don’t really go there for that so I can’t comment on the taste of their actual food.

Came here for dessert after a ridiculously filling lunch buffet down the street at Bhojan on a Friday on the recommendation of my coworker, who’s Pakistani. It was going to be a day full of gastronomic pleasure!
The place, according to her, was newly renovated because she was there a couple of weeks before and it looked different. I don’t know how different — just different. Just know that the décor is new. :)
There are some simple tables and chairs scattered around and what looked like one person working the front and a person in the back, making the desserts/​drinks. Don’t expect much friendliness or even a smile because I didn’t really see one. They had a steady trickle of customers.
The place wasn’t very clean — the tables still had bits of food crumbs scattered about — but the area was open and well lit. They seem to specialize in desserts — mainly falooda (an ice cream-​milk-​noodle dessert of varying flavors) and some smoothies. I’m intrigued by the sugar cane juice since I love it, but I’ve only had the Vietnamese version. I wonder if Pakistani sugar cane juice is any different? However, I wanted to indulge a bit, but not too much, so I got the kulfi (Indian/​Pakistani ice cream. I believe they’re made with condensed milk?). They also offer some savory options (I recall reading something about a burger), but it’s mainly all about the sweets.
The important stuff. They make their own kulfi. If you look over the counter, there’s a section with these molds with little wooden sticks coming out of them. Those are kulfi molds. They have several different flavors like malai (milk/​original), pistachio, and mango. I think they also have chocolate and strawberry as well, but don’t quote me on that. I got the pistachio. The lady took it out of its metal mold, wrapped the bottom in some wax/​parchment paper, wrapped that in a paper napkin, and handed it to me. Awesome.
The kulfi was good — the texture ‘thicker’/creamier (more solid?) than your usual ice cream and they use REAL pistachios. It’s also not too sweet! My two coworkers got the Kashmiri Falooda, which was reportedly very good. I got a taste of the ice cream portion of it. It’s like a Pakistani/​Indian version of a root beer float, but no root beer. I can’t really make a final decision, though, since I only got the ice cream and not the liquid or the other items in there. I’m mainly worried on if it’s too sweet. I may visit again so I can try the full cup (and probably share it; it’s a pretty decent sized cup). My Pakistani coworker who’s a regular said she likes the place because they use real stuff and not flavorings, so when you’re there during mango season, their mango-​flavored stuff is divine.
Basically, good place to get a sweet treat. I highly recommend the kulfi based on my taste. Service is okay and cleanliness could be a lot better. However, just based on the food, I’d definitely return if I’m in the area.
UPDATE:
I finally returned and got their Original Falooda. I went with my sister and a friend and we all shared that one cup. It surprisingly reminds me of a Vietnamese dessert drink called Suong Sa Hot Luu (it’s actually my favorite Vietnamese dessert drink and the flavors are very, VERY similar) but a little sweeter, probably due to the ice cream. The flavor is hard to describe unless you’ve tasted it, but it has these surprising bits of rice noodles (among other things) and is colorful, in the pink sense. A very unnatural color, really, but it’s an occasional treat so I ignored it. I enjoyed it, but would probably share it with one other person (it comes with two scoops of ice cream/​kulfi!).
There’s more parking in a covered garage around the back. :)

Although their juices are great tasting the stores service is bad and the tables are not clean the trash is on the table the ladies are not very friendly because they do not think people

This place is awesome! I would come here everyday if I lived in Houston!

The fresh mango shake is delicious! The kulfis are usually good as well, my favorite is the pista.
Im not a fan of falooda but everyone seems to order that so they must be doing something right.
The service here could be faster, but they get very busy, should consider increasing staff.

Their falooda is the best, I got the original one. Haven’t tried anything else, but that’s my go to.

It is always great to be able to try new things from different cultures. That is one of the many reasons I like Houston. It is a melting pot of different cultures and you can just about try anything. Somehow I ended up at this juice place that had lots of unique drinks that I have never heard of or tasted. Luckily our friend is Indian and recommended some items, otherwise we would not have tried some and stuck to more bland choices. We tried the pistachio and mango falooda. I ordered the falooda because I like mango and I just wanted to say falooda. The mango falooda had a bunch of add ons that really did not enhance the flavor, I believe there was noodles in it. The textures of the add ons are quite wierd. The mango smoothie itself was quite tasty. I did try some of my friends pistachio falooda and it was definitely sweet. I cant say I was overly impressed with the flavors. Also, they are very thick so please share the falooda with someone. They also offer regular smoothies and juices. As far as the faloodas go, they were tasty but weird at the same time. I dont know that I would order one again, I think that the mango lassi is as far as I am willing to go when it comes to Indian smoothies.

Delicious and unique drinks (try the fig cashew shake for something different!) but harshly overpriced. The service is also poor (tables aren’t cleaned regularly) so definitely not the fanciest place in town, but perhaps one of the tastiest :)

I’m sure this is a great place for South Asian but for me, I’d rather go get froyo or boba in China town. Essentially, similar to a boba shop for Indian, I thought it was a great idea to have and totally see that there’s a need for this place.
However, for me the flavor just don’t hit the spot and it’s mostly because I don’t enjoy the flavors as much.
I had the Kashmiri Falooda which is one of their signature drinks. A mix indian pistachio ice cream, milk, and what appeared to be tapioca like strings. It was just too sweat for me and couldn’t finish it.
I think that if you enjoy Indian sweets and drinks, this would be a badass place. This just wasn’t for me, I’ll take my boba

BEST gola ganda I have ever had! Good service and very clean enviroment. Had an amazing time there with my friends and it’s definitely recommended

Terrible experience. We ordered 5 things and one was more terrible than the next.
Sugarcane juice: they added ginger despite us asking them not to. When informed, they said «you need to know what you want before you order it. «
Faluda: overly sweet and full of just useless stuff that didn’t add anything to the experience.
Pista Kulfi: disgusting taste
Kulfi: mediocre
Coconut water: extremely stale and tasted salty like weeks old.
Service was horrendous, the waiter told us «we are helping other customers right now» when we asked them for a plate to throw away the disgusting kulfi. Never again. Go to the other location, or to Baloch. Don’t waste your time, money or energy on this crap place!

This place specializes in South Asian drinks and desserts and use fruits and flavors traditionally found in those countries (mango, coconut, pistachio, chickoo, sugar cane etc.) They have a wide variety of flavors that instantly remind you of the drinks you’d buy on a hot summer day in the home country.
I was looking for a healthy drink so I got a simple orange/​carrot juice. I watched them stick the carrots and oranges into the juicer so I know it was fresh and they didn’t add sugar or premade juices. Only complaint is that they didn’t put ice in it so it was a little warm.
They have a good selection of juice flavors/​combos. They don’t have the prices on the menu so I was a little surprised when my juice rang up to $ 5. But it was pretty big so the price makes sense.
The staff is friendly enough (considering they didn’t speak English well) and the place is big and clean (not always true of all food places in Hilcroft). I’ll definitely be back!

Before I begin, let’s just say I wish I could give this place a 4.5. Docking ½ a star for the service. As for the juices and shakes, they are blow your mind amazing. I love their original falooda (strawberry-​ish flavored milk with ice cream, fruits, jello, nuts, spaghetti) — one of their most popular items. Just close your eyes and order it. You can’t go wrong. I order it sans jello, but it’s just a texture thing for me (I know, I had a sad childhood without jello :/​).
Recently a friend of mine convinced me to try their mango shake and I’m hooked. Real pulp mango??? Feels like I’m back in Pakistan. It makes me all happy inside. To be fair, I am also a mango fiend (insert South Asian stereotype).
Now that I’ve finally branched out, I can’t wait to try other things. The first step is the hardest! Lol. Do yourself a favor and check this place out! Oh and their menu is a picture menu — helpful for newbies!