Smoothie reviews · Nekter Juice Bar - Laguna Niguel
32371 Golden Lantern, Laguna Niguel, CA
4.1
123 guest ratings·82 written reviews
The rating and counts above are store-wide. 16 written reviews mention Smoothies, newest first.
Briana V.
Nekter is so refreshing! Clean, bright, welcoming atmosphere and you can see they genuinely care about customers. The staff is always super friendly and works hard to deliver great service. Their smoothie bowls look stunning and taste incredible. Everything is fresh and high quality. If you want something healthy and delicious, Nekter is a must!
Robin V.
Nekter is truly fantastic. There's nothing like it anywhere else I've tried. The quality, taste, and smoothie variety is outstanding. The toppings selection is excellent. The coconut whipped cream is absolutely delicious. The chia puddings add nice texture. Service is always warm and efficient. We're obsessed with it!
Lesley Q.
The line moves quick here, and the staff greeted me so happily and nice. My smoothie was absolutely delicious!!
Andrew C.
Lots of fresh-tasting fruit smoothie and bowl options
20 mins for 2 smoothies and both were completely incorrect. I called the store to let them know but they won't pick up the phone. I had strep throat and all I wanted was a smoothie. My husband returned to the store to see the girl working there on her cell phone ignoring the phone ringing. Horrible service and a waste of $20.
Terrible service. Took quite a while to even order our food and it wasn't crowded. Then after we order it takes another 10 minutes to get our order, and they also forgot to make one of our smoothies. Would not recommend this location if you expect to get your order in a decent time.
Response from the owner · October 1, 2021
Thank you for your review. We sincerely apologize for the longer than anticipated wait! We will be passing your feedback along to management to review with their team. We greatly appreciate you bringing this to our attention, and we hope your next experience is a 5-star!
Food is amazing. Getting the order right??? NOT so much. Very annoying when you're very excited to get your bowl or whatever and its wrong. No matter if you order via phone, app, door dash or what have you, it always turns out wrong. Then there's the app... there are so many things wrong with that, I don't know where to start. I wished someone would start a new smoothie/ bowl / buz. The owners have taken a backseat to so much, its a bummer.
Response from the owner · January 19, 2021
Hi GG, thank you for your feedback and support. I am the owner. I can assure you that my wife and I haven't taken a back seat in any way. Even our teenage kids work there many days a week. It's a family run business. I share your dissatisfaction and annoyance with us getting your orders wrong so often. We take pride is creating our menu items as well as custom juices, smoothies and bowls that suit each individual need. As our window display says, we make hand crafted items for each individual. That is a huge part of our culture and we seem to be failing at that right now. I will take responsibility for our shortcomings and apologize. I will address the importance of correct orders with our team. We hope that you will give us another try. Please email us at [email protected] for a special coupon.
Chunky smoothies. Mostly frozen fruits for their berries and bananas, not exactly fresh. Unles you consider “fresh-frozen” fresh. Snacks available are full of cane sugar, canola oil, milk powder etc... Staff is pretty indifferent towards customers. Atmosphere is pretty unappealing, cold, loud, grey. They choose to use agave syrup instead of dates to sweeten the smoothies. Could be a much healthier place, prettier, a lot of potential. If you’re here to get a healthy drink apple, beat, spinach, ginger, those tend to be fresh.
When we moved to the area, we visited a few different juice bars and even though there are more on my list to try, so far, Nektar has been the best. The staff, the juices, and smoothies that my son and I have tried so far have been excellent. They are flavorful and the balance of veggies and/or fruits is so spot on.
They also make any off the menu drink creation you want. Our favorite is making a peanut butter jelly smoothie with strawberries, banana, peanut or almond butter, a little honey, and coconut milk. It's so good!
Super impressed by this place.