The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

I ran down between meetings to pick up a quick lunch take back to my room. There were several delicious looking sandwiches and two salads to choose from. I opted for a chicken Caesar. The greens were fresh, the croutons crisp and tasty but the «chicken» was icky. It is clearly not a chicken breast but some weird concoction of chicken like pieces and parts (and who knows what else) squished together to make a chicken breast shaped product complete with grill marks. The weird chicken had an unpleasant texture and odd taste. At $ 12, it was very disappointing. I picked around the chicken breast substitute to eat the greens and cherry tomatoes. I would rather pay a couple dollars more and get a real chicken breast. Or, give me an alternative to the two «chicken» salads like a 100% veggie salad. I am going to be at this hotel another four days but will go elsewhere for lunch. Their baked goods look great and they are still my favorite coffee and tea vendor!

Coffee bean and tea is located in the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC. It’s a nice place there are nice tables and lounge chairs that you can sit out while you drink your coffee. They do have multiple televisions. And newspapers pretty much at on every table.
They mainly do coffee and tea but they have a lot of baked goods as well as food items that you can purchase. You can get everything from many donuts up to Panini’s and egg sandwiches. I ended up getting the spinach and turkey sausage wrap. The wrap was eight dollars. I thought the wrap was good I didn’t think it was great. We got an order to go and they did a good job of packaging it up in a plastic container with silverware and catch up. Also had a lot of different drink options. They had two refrigerators that were filled with soda. They had two refrigerators that were filled with ice tea lemonade and other drinks.
Overall it’s a nice place to get coffee or tea if you’re in the hotel. Prices were not extremely expensive.

Love their ice blended drinks with chocolate covered espresso beans blended in. A little slice of Cali heaven in our nations capital.

Note: Has free 5min parking area at hotel front for the quick run, no need to pay on street.
Coffee Bean in DC and it tasted just as I remember! Others have noted service issues, however I did not experience this and the worker was helpful and attentive. Went during an off-​time during the afternoon, which may have attributed to this slightly.

I was in Arlington Va for a week on business. I made it a point of driving over to the Washington Hilton to go to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf that’s located in their main lobby.
I love the look of this renovated Hilton and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Coffee Bean.
However this specific location has HORRIBLE customer service. April and Nok are fantastic but Fatima is horrible and ruined a highlight of my day.
4 out of the 7 days I went in to get coffee she was standing around having personal discussions and interrupting the cashier while she was giving the barista coffee orders.
On the 4^th and final time this happened after Nok tried THREE times to give April my coffee order I finally asked Fatima to stop having personal discussions while I was waiting for my order. She walked away with no apology, and as I was asking April a specific question about the powder they use in their drinks, Fatima returned to confront me about my statement. I was in shock by her aggressive behavior. Even my shy assistant said something to her as did I about her unprofessional behavior. Once again she walked away with no apology rolling her eyes.
This was a disgusting display of her bad behavior.
As The Coffee Bean is somewhat new to the East Coast I hope they don’t continue to let Fatime be the face of their brand.

Crazy expensive and ridiculously crowded. There are much better options in the area for coffee for less than half the price. They move the line quickly, but still took 20 minutes.

Malibu dream is excellent. I’ve had great service for all my visits. Staff friendly and quick.

Great service despite long lines at a busy time.
MIni donuts were so adorable and just as tasty.
Had a cappuccino and an African sunrise tea latte.

I am from LA and was over the moon with excitement that there is now a CBTL in the DMV!!! I have been a fan of the Chai tea latte FOR. EVER.
That other competitor with a «star» can not make a chai tea latte like CBTL!!!

Their blended are their specialties in my opinion. Hot drinks are better at Starbucks. I miss their coffee from SOCal

Chai tea latte was very good. The pastries are very good. The bagels are also good. I’m very pleased with the food. they even have mini donuts!
The servers are very nice and will even remember you if you go there often enough. :) it’s very refreshing to know that there are still people who pay attention to the customers!
In addition, this location is in the Hilton. Also I think the prices are a little bit higher, but that is to be expected when it’s located inside a hotel.
Overall, I like this location and would come back!

I got the dark chocolate latte. It was okay… it tasted exactly like hot chocolate with no coffee taste at all. It was so rich I couldn’t finish my small cup.
There’s this mini chocolate doughnut I got twice… it has little chocolate balls on it and it is delicious!!! But tiny.
Today I ordered a caramel latte. They mixed up my drink and gave me somebody else’s drink. To compensate, they gave me a medium or large (I ordered a small). But the caramel latte wasn’t that good so I didn’t finish it…

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has been my favorite coffee chain for a few years. I have visited their outlets in India and California and loved it. So when I moved to the DC area and heard that there is an outlet here, I just had to go.
Absolutely brilliant place. Amazing coffee, I generally get the Ice Blended Pure Vanilla (with NSA Vanilla Powder). A bit expensive, but worth it.
Located in the Hilton, the closest Metro stop is Dupont Circle. It’s totally worth the walk. Today, I walked from Farragut West to CBTL and it was totally worth it.
There is ample seating, amazing TV screens, and great staff (a special mention to Michael, who is very courteous).
All in all, this is a place worth visiting.
Would certainly like them to open more outlets in the DMV area. Fingers crossed!

You guys… they have a CBTL in Washington, DC. Across the street from my work. In the Hilton. MINDBLOWING.
But, I’m afraid the quality of the drinks aren’t the same as my beloved CBTL in Pasadena, California. Last time I ordered the usual Vanilla Ice Blended with extra vanilla powder of course. It was a little too icy. BLEND THAT SHIT MORE.
Today, I decided to get a large iced vanilla latte with the almond coconut milk. I wouldn’t say it was a BIG mistake, But it was a mistake. IDK what they are using here but it is definitely not the equivalent of the almond coconut milk that they use in California. At the end of the day, I will come back, but it’s just not the same. Le sigh.

Possible the worst breakfast egg sandwich I’ve ever had, it was covered in grease. 1.5 bites and it hit the trash. If you eat here, stick with the pastries, they are pretty safe (or go to a coffee shop on the great street one block away toward dupont circle.)
And it’s in a hotel, so very pricey for what you get.

This review is for 1 donut and frozen lemonade, Haven’t tried anything else.
The frozen lemonade was amazing, it was all the great taste of your traditional lemonade and the added bonus of it being frozen with out compromising it. They did an awesome job on creating this lovely drink.
I love small donuts so I was happy to see they had a few left in the bakery case. It was a cinnamon flavored type donut, very fresh and is made of great dough. This is a donut that stand out from a gas station or grocery store kind for sure.
They have a little bit for everyone there, stop by and find your pleasure they are a nice shop.

This coffee was terrible. And expensive. Give me Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks over this any day. My iced caramel coffee was almost entirely ice, and it was so sweet that I had to wait almost an hour before enough of the ice melted enough for it to be drinkable. My husband decided to throw away his dark roast coffee halfway through, and got a cup of coffee from the free Keurig machine in the gym at the hotel instead. If that isn’t saying something…

I was very happy to see a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf shop conveniently located inside the Washington Hilton, where I attended a big conference for several days. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is my overall favorite coffee chain (over Starbucks & Dunkin Donuts) in the USA, but I am only able to enjoy it whenever I’m visiting So Cal or NYC.
I stopped in here during session breaks for my favorite drink, a large CBTL Iced Coffee with cream and raw sugar, which was as good as the CBTL Iced Coffees I’ve enjoyed on the West Coast.
The lines were long here during the conference, but the friendly staff was doing a good job at keeping the line moving and drinks were ready in timely order.
However, since this sole DC location is inside a hotel, the prices here are considerably much higher for drinks, baked goods, and prepared foods. A large Iced Coffee was over $ 4 here and I paid under $ 3 in So Cal for the same drink. A breakfast sandwich was close to $ 8, keeping in line with the prices at the hotel restaurants.
Because I had my CBTL fix, I was able to have a good conference and stay awake and focused during the long sessions.

I missed Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf since I left Cali. What a surprise to find it in the lobby of Washington Hilton. It has to be one of the most spacious CBTL I have ever been to. They even have 4 flat screen TVs on one wall.
Ordered the same Pomagranate Blueberry Tea Latte and it did not taste any different from what I remember (after all, it’s a chain). Wait, I think that’s what nolstagia tastes like.
It opens at 5:30 AM until 6 PM.

This is five-​stars-​for-​a-​chain kinda five stars, but is still well deserved at that. By far the best chain coffee available anywhere.
This Coffee Bean is inside the Washington Hilton, between Adams Morgan and Dupont. Nothing this good has been in a Hilton since… Rick Salomon? No, Coffee Bean is definitely much better than that. But because of the location and newness of it, it’s hella swanky. Five TVs in a coffee shop?! There were barely more seats than TVs!
The coffee and tea here are quite, quite good (and I am both a coffee snob and a loose leaf tea drinker)…but because it’s a chain it still does all the foofoo /​blended /​drink-​coffee-​to-​jump-​on-​the-​coffee-​bandwagon-​not-​because-​you-​actually-​like-​coffee drinks, too. The service was outstanding, possibly because at least one of the employees had been imported from California. And let’s face it, everything good comes from California. Said employee mentioned that there aren’t any plans for additional Coffee Beans in DC as of yet, but that if this location continues to do well, that may change. Fingers and toes are crossed!