The Coffee Bean Tea Leaf - Poway

Best coffee and latte hands down. Less money and bigger portions than Starbucks.

Thank you for having places to sit and study unlike Starbucks who have taken away most of their seating. Thank you for your community feel and true gathering space. Happy to spend my money at your place.

The girl who was working on Sunday morning (12/10) short black hair was so incredibly rude.My boyfriend ordered a latte and she cut him off and said “HOT OR ICED?” He was like “iced” and she’s like “uhhhh you want a latte iced? We don’t do that.” And he said “sorry, just one second, I’m ordering what I’m told” and she cut him off and said “WELL then I can’t make your order if you don’t tell me if it’s hot or iced.”This was all in a 20 second interaction, and there was no line. We pull up to the window and she said “hi” and nothing else to us. She didn’t say the price, the drink order, nothing. My bf had to speak first and be like “it’s Apple Pay” to which she just held the reader out with no response.So rude. Drinks tasted terrible, I’m sure on purpose. We literally threw the drinks out and got Starbucks.

Alan the manager is an outstanding individual, enforces the rules in a respectful manner and is quite friendly, iced vanilla latte is bomb too.

Great coffee! However don’t limit yourself to just coffee/ lattes. They offer cold brews, teas, breakfast sandwiches/ burritos and pastries. My favs are the cookie butter, vanilla, and seasonal sea salt toffee iced lattes. Delicious lattes. Great quality coffee beans. Their powders (cookie butter and vanilla, etc) are available to purchase along with their coffee and teas. Awesome customer service, the young lady in the drive thru was amazing. Very clean location