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# Tea Alley, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/tea-alley-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/tea-alley-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Tea Alley is a bubble tea store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 33 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 | 40 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA |
| Hours | Mon 8:30 PM to 2 AM · Tue to Sat 8 PM to 2 AM · Sun 8:30 PM to 2 AM |
| Phone | (408) 217-9486 |
| Rating | 4.0 across 133 reviews on Google |
| 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 | 40 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | A | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM · Tue to Sat 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM · Sun 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Tea Alley | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 217-9486 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Tea Alley

Address: 40 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA. Phone: (408) 217-9486. Hours: Mon 8:30 PM to 2 AM · Tue to Sat 8 PM to 2 AM · Sun 8:30 PM to 2 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nomikai | Cocktail bar | 1 min walk |
| 1st & Santa Clara | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Temple Bar and Lounge | Lounge bar | 1 min walk |
| Good Karma Fine Ales Food & HiFi | Brewpub | 1 min walk |
| Subway | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk |
| First Street Pizza & Espresso - Downtown San Jose | American restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.0 average across 133 reviews: Google 133. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

Tea Alley stands out for its late-night hours and unique offerings like fried chicken, but struggles with service and cleanliness. (AI guess, from 133 reviews.)


### What people like

- Fried chicken is delicious
- Passion fruit green tea is refreshing


### What people do not like

- Long waits for orders
- Rude or unresponsive staff
- Dirty environment


### Press

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### Awards

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## Questions people ask


### Whereabouts is Tea Alley?


### opening hours at Tea Alley in San Jose, what are they these days?


### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves


### the good stuff about the shop, what is it?


### lunch near 1st, what is good


### cheaper than Tea Alley in San Jose without it being sketchy?


### best bubble tea store in San Jose


### What do shoppers most often mention buying here?


### bad experiences at Tea Alley, anyone?


### Tea Alley, any chance to get in this week?


### anything new from Tea Alley lately?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### Any membership pricing at Tea Alley?


## The AI Score: 33 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. Tea Alley scores 33, above the San Jose average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Tea Alley |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | 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. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | 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 | 7 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 75 | 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 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

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 Tea Alley |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tea Alley | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Tea Alley 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:ChIJzbkMurzMj4ARUG3En45oPeI (accessed Sep 14, 2026)