2. Boba Guys
9.1
8 Octavia St Unit 308 (at Haight St), San Francisco, CA
Bubble Tea Shop · Hayes Valley · 43 tips and reviews
Kim De Guzman: Try the spicy salmon onigiri with your boba for a light snack, so good ✨
Nishanth Chandran: My go to boba joint: this location is great and you can be adventurous since they have many different drinks. My usual is Hong Kong style, 25% sweet with Boba or egg pudding.
Eater: Pair your matcha with tapioca pearl where you can get matcha poured over Straus Family Creamery milk, housemade syrup, and boba, or an affogato with Frozen Kuhsterd custard and rotating flavors. Read more.
3. Asha Tea House
8.8
17 Kearny St (Market Street), San Francisco, CA
Tea Room · Downtown San Francisco-Union Square · 73 tips and reviews
Billy Leet: Their soft opening seems pretty solid to me! Awesome Hong Kong style milk tea, and really pleasant workers.
Maggie Sheldon: I love that Asha offers non-dairy options for their teas! This is one of my favorite pearl milk tea spots. They have an Arnold Palmer equivalent that's very tasty, too. The line always moves quickly.
Will Curran: Matcha latte and HK Milk Tea were delicious! They sell all of their own loose leafs and have traditional teas too!
4. fifty/fifty
8.1
3157 Geary Blvd (at Spruce St), San Francisco, CA
Coffee Shop · Lone Mountain · 78 tips and reviews
Lan: Honey coconut milk tea with boba is delicious! Perfect sweetness and they have good pearls here.
M L: Delicious milk tea and pastries. Four tables and outlets, wifi, not crowded in the middle of the day. Love!
Charlobo s.: Try the lavender Earl Gray. It's amazing. My go to is the Honey Coconut boba, but the lavender is a contender!
5. Purple Kow
7.5
3620 Balboa St (btwn 37th & 38th Ave), San Francisco, CA
Bubble Tea Shop · Outer Richmond · 117 tips and reviews
Dominic T.: Roast oolong milk tea is the best of all "yummy milk teas". Size upgrade is $.95 and additions (aloe, tapioca, pudding, etc) are $.50.
Megan Jee: Iced milk with boba is an easy thumbs up !
Erin Macadaeg: Iced Milk Drink with Boba and Pudding or boba noodles at micro-sweetness is my fav
9. Little Sweet
7.6
3836 Geary Blvd (at 2nd Ave), San Francisco, CA
Bubble Tea Shop · Inner Richmond · 12 tips and reviews
Allison Yu: Delicious boba!! Mountain black tea with cream and sea salt is bomb. You still get the creaminess without the milk
eifeh: Easily one of the most authentic milk tea spots in the city; closest I've found to Taipei. High mountain tea, jasmine tea, and Tie Guan Yin milk teas are all good. Boba consistency is hit and miss.
Henry Wu: One of the best authentic milk tea shops in the Bay Area. The high mountain milk tea has a nice strong flavor.
Iris Ng: My absolute favorite tapioca place. Original milk tea, lychee milk tea are both uber awesome!
Rainar Wan: Authentic taro MILKSHAKE tapioca milktea! Make sure it's the milkshake/slushee one! They'll ask you if it's the white one YES it is! The purple one is the powder one which is like every other.
Alice Hsu: I love their milk tea. Hoping to see them add green tea ice cream milk tea in the near future. As an added bonus their candy selection includes chocolate covered gummy bears.
11. Super Cue Cafe
7.9
1330 Ocean Ave (at Granada Ave), San Francisco, CA
Bubble Tea Shop · 9 tips and reviews
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Stacey: Sooo glad they opened up this location. Love the high mountain oolong milk tea.
Mike Quach: Taro milk tea is my favorite!
15. Teaspoon
8.0
2125 Polk St (btwn Broadway & Vallejo St), San Francisco, CA
Bubble Tea Shop · Polk Gulch · 20 tips and reviews
Chris Young: One of my fav boba spots, liquid gold is feugo.
Qiqi Xu: Better than Boba Guys
Neivin Mathew: Roasted Oolong milk tea at 50% sweetness is perfect. Sweet Marshmallow, Honey Gold and the Virgin Mojito is good too. Hot tea is pretty decent as well. Afternoon tea snow is great as well.