The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Worst chai tea latte I’ve ever had. It was basically hot milk. Would have only been one star, but the girl working at the time was very friendly so she bumped up the rating to two stars. Don’t think I’ll be popping in here again though!

Yuck! Ordered an iced chai for about $ 5.50 and it was served lukewarm and completely watered down to the point of tasteless. I had two sips and had to throw it away.

Ordered an Extreme ultimate mocha, because I was informed it did not contain dairy. Recieved a regular mocha. Realized it half way through, as there were no coffee beans in the drink. Not only will I be getting sick from the milk later today while in flight, I paid extra for nothing.
When I went back to inform them, the woman who made it first admitted to the mistake, then backpedaled telling me I was wrong.
Did not try to correct.
I walked away. The drink was still good, but Starbucks has better pastry.

I arrived at the airport three hours early and was bored out of my mind after wandering around the entire A gates section of Sea-​Tac. I sat on their comfy seats for about 10 minutes before I made up my mind to order the same thing I ordered at my first visit to a Coffer Bean & Tea Leaf in Las Vegas: the matcha green tea ice blended drink.
Their ice blended drinks only come in regular ($ 4.35) and large ($ 4.95), and their sizes are bigger than Starbucks, which is always a nice bonus. The regular is more than enough for one person. Delicious as expected. Fast service and friendly staff. The barista who ran me up even asked if I wanted whipped cream or not as she was making my drink. No line when I arrived, short line formed after I ordered. A fair number of people coming and going. Located between A9 and A10 gates. Across from a duty free store. Wooden tables and chairs inside and comfy chairs facing towards the main walkway. FREE PRIVATE WIFI for customers, so hold on to your receipt because the password is on it.
I’d come back for the matcha green tea ice blended drink and the comfy chairs! I’ve been sitting here for a good half hour now and my drink is half gone. Woohoo! Now it’s all ice for the remaining 25 percent. Fine by me, I’m full already.

When you’re stuck in the airport, you don’t have many choices. You have even less choices when your plane is about to leave in fifteen minutes and you just want to grab a quick bite near your gate. I stopped here because of those factors and the fact that the other options around had such poor reviews on Unilocal.
The sizes here seem a little larger than Starbucks. Their medium size (called a regular) looks rather large to me, so the prices were pretty good for the airport.
My husband and I split a regular chai. I liked that it was extra hot, although I didn’t ask for it that way. The chai was not too sweet with a light amount of spice. The flavor was somewhere between the regular chai and the Oprah chai at Starbucks.
The gingerbread was disappointing. If was a bit dry and was lacking in flavor. Another person in my group got the lemon blueberry bread. She said it was moist and delicious. I should have ordered that instead.
There was a line, but it moved pretty quickly. I would come back again if I am waiting in A Terminal. It seems like one of the better options in the area when you’re pressed for time.

Wait… since when did Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf open up in SeaTac?
From what I found out, it has opened about a year ago. Even though I frequently go to SeaTac Airport, I was wondering why I haven’t noticed it before and I found out why last week.
Its across gate A9… which happens to be so out of the way.
Anyways, its great to know I can get my earl grey latte fix when I happen to be flying out of SeaTac. I’m not sure what exactly they do to get it so tasty, but I have yet found another coffee shop that can compare (or make them even better) than Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’s tea lattes. However, if you happen to know of a place, please fill me in!

I popped out of the United Club to run downstairs to the main level of Concourse A to find some real coffee — not the run-​of-​the-​mill stuff served by United in the United Club.
I found The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Ordered a bold coffee. It was absolutely delicious! There is a decent amount of seating here, as well as a large flat screen HD TV and some electrical outlets for charging your devices.
Staff was friendly and very nice! Service was good! Would come here again!

Usually I love going to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf before traveling somewhere. Its almost a habit of mine. The coffee drinks are delicious and tastier than Starbucks. However I had a less-​than-​delicious drink during my last visit. I ordered a vanilla-​flavored iced coffee. The lady making the drinks was in an inexplicable rush and left most of the vanilla powdered-​flavoring undissolved in my drink. I kept tasting clumps of the powder as I drank it. I was a little disappointed this time but this won’t stop me from visiting again!