Bowlba Cafe

Bowlba Cafe is a Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese kitchen with a boba program, in the Falls River shopping center in far north Raleigh.

The menu is labeled more carefully than most: vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and mild are marked item by item, which makes ordering for a mixed table simple. Pad thai comes with tamarind sauce, egg, scallion, bean sprout and peanut, and the kitchen also runs tonkotsu and tom yum ramen alongside milk tea and boba. Reservations are taken.