# Boba Bar, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/boba-bar-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/boba-bar-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Boba Bar is a bubble tea store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Bubble tea store |
| Address | 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (408) 298-9968 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 697 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Boba Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 298-9968 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Bubble tea | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Flavored bubble tea | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Noodle bowls | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Rice bowls | AI guess |  |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/bobabarsj | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.bobabarsj.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Boba

Address: 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA. Phone: (408) 298-9968. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior."


### When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Samuthr Thai Restaurant | Thai restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Phin & Bowl | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| La Victoria Taqueria | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Entre Comales | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Jack in the Box | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Pizza My Heart | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 697 reviews: Google 697. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

While Boba Bar has standout drinks like the taro smoothie, inconsistent quality and service issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 697 reviews.)


### What people like

- Taro smoothie
- Mango macha smoothie
- Crème Brûlée Latte
- Popcorn chicken


### What people do not like

- Long waits due to busy hours
- Drinks lacking flavor or tasting bad
- Inconsistent quality of food and drinks
- Poor customer service experiences


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 2 of the 20 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


### Are the hours on Google right for Boba in San Jose?


### anything new from Boba lately?


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand


### torn between Boba and Tisane?


### walk ins, or is it booked solid


### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?


### somewhere cheaper in San Jose that is not a risk?


### where exactly is Boba?


### is there a day here that is not slammed


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### Why do people rate the shop?


### killing time on Third, any ideas


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### best bubble tea store in San Jose


### parking here, where does everyone put the car?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


## The AI Score: 38 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose bubble tea stores run 24 to 48. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Boba scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Boba |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 20 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 55 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 42 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a bubble tea store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Boba |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boba Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.bobabarsj.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Boba is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the bubble tea stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best bubble tea stores in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/bubble-tea-store
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJCbM49bnMj4ARVDw_01uK6Xw (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 10, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)