Tea and boba joints open all the time, all over, but not as often in South County. Recently, a new tea and boba joint called Harmony Tea Bar opened in Mission Viejo, which joins just a scant number other boba joints and tea shops in the area.
Harmony is owned by a husband and wife team who met on eHarmony, which may explain the name. But if you remember Harmony Tea Bar at all, it might have been from their appearance at the OC Night Market a few months ago.
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For this, Harmony's first brick-and-mortar, they serve milk teas such as the Lavender Earl Gray Milk Tea, iced fruit teas, Vietnamese coffee, and matcha drinks. Boba can be added to any drink for 50-cents.
They've been in soft opening mode for the past two weeks and will hold their grand opening this weekend.
25380 Marguerite Pkwy. Ste L, Mission Viejo, CA 92692, (949) 272-0202; harmonyteabar.com
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.