"Named after the owners’ cats, 3Cat Handcrafted Beverage is located in the same Convoy Street plaza as Aree Bakery and Keep Coffee near Common Theory. 3Cat specializes in beverages with creative toppings made in-store every morning, using fresh fruit and no syrups or artificial ingredients. Tea choices include jasmine green tea, osmanthus oolong, and golden amber, which can all be ordered as-is or as the base for milk teas and lattes. The menu also offers fruit drinks, such as avomango sweet dew, lime explosion, cheese grape, and super orange. Layered on top of the drinks are optional toppings, like mousse and mochi, made in-house every day, three hours before the store opens its doors. Handcrafted mochi flavors include mango, matcha, or Oreo while mousse flavors include soybean, cheese, Oreo, and matcha, which is the current seasonal flavor. Add-in ingredients include mashed purple yam, osmanthus tea jelly, coconut jelly, or popping boba flavored with barley or water chestnut. First opened in 2019 in L.A., the tea shop has six locations in Los Angeles and one in Milpitas in Northern California. 3Cat Tea tells Eater they would like to open additional shops in California, possibly adding more in San Diego." - Helen I. Hwang
