The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Category:	Coffee Shop
Address:	2901 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA
Phone:	+1 310-392-1406
Site:	locations.coffeebean.com
Rating:	3.7
Working:	5:30AM–10PM 5:30AM–10PM 5:30AM–10PM 5:30AM–10PM 5:30AM–10:30PM 6AM–10PM 6AM–9PM

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Reviews 32

Ryan Thiesing

tl;dr Good tea, yummy smelling food, good location, bad/annoying wifi, some what bad seating. This Coffee Bean has some ups and downs. First the good. The service was excellent! I ordered a tea and had some questions about the taste and caffeine content the barista was very informative. The tea was good and although I didnt try any the treats looked and smelt fresh. For seating you have the choice of inside or outside. Inside seating is terrible! You have four places you can sit and if anyone is next to you, youll be battling for elbow room. However, the outside seating is nice, but only if you did not come here for studying. There are chairs lining the west and north side of the building. Why its not ideal for studying is the loud street and hardly any cover from the sun. None the less if you are here with someone for conversation or want to people watch, its a pretty popular spot on main... and very close to the beach. One annoyance though is the wifi here, it is slow, but that is to be expected from any public open wifi. They try to minimize non-customer traffic by requiring a code that is located inside the coffee shop on the television. The fact that the code is in public view from inside the shop and that the welcome page tells you exactly where to look for this code makes this step an annoyance. If anyone near the facility wanted to leach off their wifi it would be trivial. I found myself sitting down, trying to connect, then having to get back up (with stuff in hand as I was sitting outside), looking for the code, and then walked back to my seat hoping it wasnt taken.

Zoltan Varga

Having known them from the market shelves, I was expected to see more coffee bean varieties on the menu, so I was disappointed to find out that they only had espresso and normal brew, but at least it was cheap and the coffee is good, if not outstanding. The place itself is kind of outdated and there isnt a lot of seating

Bryant Poteet

The space is nice and modern inside and the staff is incredibly helpful. I opted for the special of the day, a honey latte. I asked for almond milk, which they whipped out. It wasnt almond breeze, it was almond, a nice high-end almond milk.

Gwen C

Dirty, broken and busy. This store needs some serious attention and TLC. It seemed like the employees were too busy and the store has been neglected by its corporate overlords. clean and update it, especially the bathrooms.

James B. Golden

This is a great location to meet up for a date or people watch, as it is right in the city center.

Abraham Horowitz

Run by muppets. Enough said. Worst customer service Ive ever seen in a coffee shop.

Steven Plutte

My coffee demands are minimal: black and fast. This spot delivers on Main Street.

Henley Bailey

Coffee is a bit bitter, WiFi is painful. Nice café and staff are friendly too.

Photo Larry

Somewhat small space but not bad for main street area alternative to Starbucks

chris martin

Coffee coffee coffee medium only $2 whats not to luv! Super friendly staff.