In 2020 I am seeing so many new bubble tea shops opening up in the Netherlands. What happened?! I guess there is this craving for (good) bubble tea and people thought “let’s do it myself”… and bam! Suddenly a lot of bubble tea shops popped up.
What is bubble tea?
For the people who never had bubble tea, in 2016 I wrote a story about the history and the taste of bubble tea. Back in the day… bubble tea was just starting to bubble up in the Netherlands.
Where to find bubble tea?
Amsterdam
- &Tea Yucha
- Biu Tea
- Chatime
- Chun
- Ima Bubble Tea Shop
- Jen’s Bing
- Kungfu Milk Tea
- Mr. Stacks
- SooTea
- Tea Guys Amsterdam
- The boba spot Amsterdam
- YoYo Fresh! (& Barcelona)
Den Haag
- 8Tea5 (& in Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège)
- Lily’s Coffee & Bubble tea
- Sisi Bubble Tea
- T&C Haus (Taiwanese food)
- YoYo Fresh!
Eindhoven
Hilversum
Maastricht
Rotterdam
- &Tea Yucha
(Review) - Bao Haus by T&C
- Boba Club
- Cutea Bubbletea
- Foo Concepts (High tea and more)
- Infinitea Bubble Tea Cafe
- Lily’s Coffee & Bubble tea
- QQ Bakery
- Tea Society
- TeaSupply
- Tea Up
- Soufflé Café
- YoYo Fresh!
Tilburg
Utrecht
Amazing Oriental also sells bubble tea in their Foodcorner.
If you know any place which isn’t on the list, let me know and I will add it to the list.
Thank you for your tips: Gretchen, Foo Concepts, imaginebobas and Chris.
Thank you so much for this list! Which of these are your favourites?
&Tea in Rotterdam is my favourite place. Lily’s bubble tea and T&C Haus in Den Haag were also nice. I haven’t visited a lot of places yet, so can’t say much about the rest. And I only judge/drink the original bubble tea: milk tea with tapioca.
There’s now also ChaTime in Amsterdam on Kalversstraat and it’s the best bubble tea I’ve had in NL – tastes just like Coco. There’s also two Amazing Oriental supermarkets – the one in Duivendrecht definitely sells bubble tea and I’m pretty sure the one at Nieuwmarkt does too but I’m not certain.
I’m thinking of making a website for users to suggest and rate bubble tea places, because I’ve reeeeeeally struggled to find decent boba since I moved here.
Thanks for the recommendations! The website sounds like an awesome idea. Let me know when you realize it! 😀