Plentea
On a walk to one of my favorite watering holes on Friday, I saw this place. One of three actually, on the way towards North Beach where I’ll sit in a tiny bar and cry out my day’s miseries. But first thing I do when I see my bretheren was to mention the onslaught of new boba places that spawned since last I walked up Kearny. Plentea had a line outside the door where I had to dodge the selfie-taking-need-to-checkin people. The crowd was young too. Very untypical of fiDi.
Well, guess what? The next day we happened to be near by.
Next thing you know, I’m in line wondering how it happened. Maybe I want to be part of the cool kids, maybe the heat got to me, or maybe, just maybe, I wanted one of those cool bottles. Yeah, forgot to mention these old school milk bottles they were serving the drinks in. Yes, this wasn’t waiting for food for me, it was waiting in line at Ikea. Yeah. That makes more sense right? It’s all about the bottles.
In any case, they had about five people putting drinks together. Pretty decent system getting out a couple bottles every few minutes. The only eye raising part was the person cutting up the fruit. Not very skillful with the knife and not sure how she was going to keep up with the pace around her. On the bright side, you can say each drink was delicately put together. So enjoy every piece of fruit you slurp up in your drink. It was cut up with some love and passion and precision. As for me, I drunk mine quickly and studied the glass. What clever thing am I going using these for? We’ll have to wait and see. At the very least, I can re-use them to get 20% off my next drink.
Plentea
341 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
+1 (626) 283-8808
Verdict: If they get better down the road or I break any of the bottles, then yes, I’ll be back.
Didn’t quite do it for me. The sea salt wasn’t against anything overly sweet so the effect fell short. Maybe I shouldn’t have asked for 50% sweet. However, the fresh fruit mango smoothie was great. I gotta learn to order better next time.
A limited selection compared to you’re average boba tea places. Less time spent deciding what you’re getting and more time for them to fill in your order and move this line!
As you would expect, when there’s something new and good, people will flock there. For a Saturday in the Financial District, this line was surprisingly long. Most things are closed around here.