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Bubble Tea houses - sugar water, essential, non-alcoholic alternative for a chill night out on the town.

 1. A Place For Us

3255 Highway 7 East, Unit 27
Markham, ON L3R
(905) 944-1496
4.0 star rating
  2/7/2010 First to Review

We were cruising around looking for a bubbletea place late on a Saturday night with increasing desperation as we were fast running out of options, when we stumbled upon this little gem located at First Markham Place. Bubbletea places really get…More »

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 2. Go For Tea

3700 Midland Avenue
Toronto, ON M1V
(416) 292-0221

Category: Coffee & Tea

Neighbourhood: Scarborough

4.0 star rating
  1/21/2010

Great ambiance?  Check.  Attentive, friendly service?  Check.  Tasty drink?  Yes.  Over-priced bubbletea drinks in an extensive menu?  Yup, got that too.  I usually roll my eyes a little at myself whenever I got to bubbletea places because it is rare…More »

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 3. Go For Tea

230 Commerce Valley Dr E
Thornhill, ON L3T 7Y3
(905) 886-0221

Categories: Tea Rooms, Chinese

4.0 star rating
  3/7/2010

A satisfying bubbletea experience!  This place is spacious with modern bubbletea house decor.  There's usually a line up late at night and it's great for groups if you come early enough.  The sugar water that we call bubbletea are of good quality and…More »

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 4. Green Grotto Room

7030 Warden Ave
Markham, ON L3R 5Y2
(905) 300-2578
4.0 star rating
  10/10/2011

It's hard not to like a tea house where the noise level isn't deafening and where I just feel so cozy.  Unlike much larger bubble tea houses like Destiny, this place is not of a monsterous size, so it fills up pretty quickly and it is tough to get a…More »

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 5. Destiny Tea Cafe

633 Silver Star Blvd
Scarborough, ON M1V 5N1
(416) 222-7799

Categories: Coffee & Tea, Tea Rooms

Neighbourhood: Scarborough

2.0 star rating
  12/20/2009

Oh, Destiny, you're trying so hard to pick yourself up after the "cockroach incident"... and it just isn't working.  Having closed after the incident, it re-envisioned itself as a modern, cavernous lounge from its previous Asian dark wood interior.…More »

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 6. Destiny

165 York Blvd
Richmond Hill, ON L4B 4A7
(905) 889-7899
2.0 star rating
  1/23/2010

I tried.  I really tried to like this place because I thought to myself that this location must be better than the other Silver Star location http://www.yelp.ca/biz... because they must have learned from each other's mistakes.... but, alas, my hopes…More »

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