Why go
Salted cheese foam, poured by hand over fresh-fruit tea, is what HEYTEA built a following on in China. The Beverly Hills shop was the brand's first on the West Coast when it opened on 26 July 2024.
Tea, and only tea
The programme is tea from end to end. HEYTEA blends its own leaf, brews it on commercial equipment for consistency, and builds drinks from steeped, cold-brewed or blended bases. Milk is fresh rather than powdered, fruit teas are made with fruit cut that day rather than syrup, and the cheese foam goes on by hand at the last moment.
Toppings follow the same logic: jelly, pearls and popping boba, added on request rather than assumed. Sweetness is set at the counter at zero, thirty, fifty, seventy or a hundred percent, which makes the same drink read very differently depending on how it is ordered.
A Rodeo Drive counter
The room is modern Asian minimalism, with clean lines, neutral tones, sleek materials and a compact layout arranged around ordering, waiting and pickup. It is a counter rather than a tea room with table service, and it is built for volume, with a clear queue and a separate collection flow for takeaway.
Rodeo Drive is an unusual address for it, which is rather the point. In a district built on luxury retail, high-end restaurants and cocktail bars, HEYTEA gives the street a premium drink involving no alcohol at all. The brand started in Jiangmen, Guangdong, in 2012 and reached the United States through New York, with shops near Times Square and Columbia, before heading west.
Order the Cheese Grape Boom
The Cheese Grape Boom is the signature and the right first order. It is the clearest version of the house style: a fruit-forward tea with a layer of creamy, salted cheese foam over the top, drunk so that the two meet on the way down.
Classic Cheese Tea is the simpler sibling, built from black tea, milk and the same foam, and it is the better test of the tea underneath. Beyond the cheese family the menu spans black and green teas, matcha, fruit teas and milk teas, with seasonal launches running lighter in warm months and richer as the year turns. Food is not the point. Come for the drink, and set the sugar level deliberately rather than by default.
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Frequently asked questions
What should I order at HEYTEA in Beverly Hills?
The Cheese Grape Boom, the signature drink and the clearest version of the house style: fruit-forward tea under a layer of creamy, salted cheese foam. Classic Cheese Tea, built from black tea, milk and the same foam, is the better test of the tea underneath. Set your sugar level deliberately.
How are the drinks at HEYTEA made?
From the brand's own tea blends, brewed on commercial equipment and built on steeped, cold-brewed or blended bases. Milk is fresh rather than powdered, fruit teas use fruit cut that day rather than syrup, and the cheese foam is poured by hand. Jelly, pearls and popping boba are added as toppings.
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