Best Bubble Tea in Calgary: 10 Bubble Tea Stores You’ll Crave
- April 8, 2025
- By Cody Battershill
Where to Find the Best Bubble Tea in Calgary
After drinking bubble tea just once, you may find yourself addicted to it. I sure did, and I immediately began wondering where I could get the best bubble tea in Calgary. Since then, I have been going from store to store around the city searching for that next best bubble tea drink.
Doing so over the years, I’ve discovered a collection of excellent bubble tea in Calgary that will soothe your cravings. So whether you're trying it for the first time or are an experienced bubble tea drinker, any one of these places on our list of best bubble tea in Calgary should satisfy your deepest BBT desires.
Bubblemania Café (Crescent Heights)
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- Address – 455 16th Avenue NE
- Phone: 403-277-9398
- Bubblemania Café
Bubblemania Café is a staple in our community for bubble tea and wing specials every day of the week - and, of course, social life for young and old alike. As one of Calgary's oldest bubble tea shops, Bubblemania is almost always packed to the brim with eager customers. Just recently, it nearly expanded its capacity by renting out the entire building!
The menu features a mix of Western and Asian-style appetizers, and there are daily specials to boot for the budget-minded restaurant goers. Perhaps one of the best parts of this best bubble tea restaurant in Calgary is its hours of operation, open until 11pm on weekdays and midnight on weekends – the perfect place to get together with friends for a night out!
Y Not Today Bingsu & Bubble Tea (Parkhill)
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- Address – 4339 Macleod Trail SW
- Phone: 403-345-7108
- Y Not Today BBT
Situated on Macleod Trail Southbound in the inner city neighbourhood of Parkhill, Y Not Today is one of most unique bubble tea shops in Calgary, hands down. This BBT shop is always busy because of its weekly board game and chess events, which attract crowds.
Apart from delicious bubble tea, Y Not Today also features Bingsu, a Korean shaved ice cream dessert perfect for staying cool on a hot summer day. We love the coco with taro ice cream, taro chunks, red bean and boba served on top of crushed ice. For drinks, we loved the Y Not Special, a healthy green tea with aloe vera.
Yummy Q (Kensington)
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- Address – Unit 2, 338 10th Street NW
- Phone: 403-245-6778
- Yummy Q
Yummy Q is a unique bubble tea shop in Northwest Calgary’s Kensington District that has garnered the attention of BBT lovers over the years. Its unique menu includes smoothies, fresh fruit slushes, sparkling teas, milk teas, and Italian gelato and sorbet desserts.
We loved Yummy Q for its massive dessert and drink menu and its Asian-inspired snacks like our favourite bubble waffles. This tasty treat is famous in parts of China and also in Vancouver – a must-try for bubble tea lovers in Calgary!
Try Again Beverage House (Chinatown)
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- Address – 111 3rd Avenue SE
- Phone: 403-234-0666
- Try Again Beverage House
Tucked away on 3rd Avenue SE in downtown Calgary’s Chinatown, Try Again serves delicious powdered and fresh fruit bubble teas to go for a great price. But the hard part isn’t the price; it’s choosing what type of drink you want.
Try Again has over 100 flavours, or thousands, I should say, if you factor in the different types of cookie crumbs, jelly, pearls and coconut flakes you can add to your drink. Check out Try Again’s best bubble tea in Calgary the next time you’re in Chinatown or out for a stroll near the Bow River. It’s so good, we think you’ll be trying it again soon!
Hi-Tea (Chinatown)
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- Address – 312 Centre Street NE
- Phone: 587-717-6688
- Hi Tea
Located inside Dragon City Mall on Centre Street, Hi Tea is the perfect place to grab a bubble tea while catching the bus on Centre Street and 3rd Avenue in Chinatown. This best BBT shop in Calgary has excellent milk tea, slushes, and coffee, and delicious quick snacks. Our favourites include the popcorn chicken, egg waffles and dumplings.
Hi-Tea’s powdered bubble tea can also be made with real fruit. Just be prepared to pay a little bit more, totally worth it if you’re health conscious. We also love the daily specials.
Bubble Tea Brewers
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- Multiple Locations
- Bubble Tea Brewers
Yet another homegrown BBT shop, Bubble Tea Brewers was originally founded as a single store in the northwest Calgary community of Montgomery. Over the past several years, the chain has expanded right across the city, and now includes new locations in Nolan Hill, Signal Hill, and even at the North Horizon Mall in Balzac, AB.
Find some of the best bubble tea in Calgary at any of its locations, which also serves up several other refreshing foods and drinks, as well as tasty snacks and sweet desserts. We love the avocado mango smoothie, which is made with real fruit (our favourite). But if you want a unique BBT, try any one of the chocolate series layered with extra candy and other sweets on top.
CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice
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- Multiple Locations
- Coco Fresh Tea
With multiple locations across Calgary, CoCo’s Taiwanese-inspired bubble tea began as a single location near Peters’ Drive-In back in 2018. Today, this Ontario-based BBT shop has quickly become known as one of the best around.
We love the roasted milk tea with grass jelly as well as a handful of others like the grapefruit tea, making CoCo home to some of the best bubble tea in Calgary. This place has an extensive menu that will keep you coming back for more, and all drinks are very affordable, starting at just over five bucks.
Chatime
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- Multiple locations
- Chatime
This popular chain BBT shop is all over Canada, earning Chatime the right to be on our list of best bubble tea in Calgary. We’ve visited several locations in Brentwood, Evanston, Chinatown and Deerfoot City, and they all serve one of the best roasted milk teas around. That’s the usual order, but when it’s not roasted milk tea, Chatime’s extensive menu – which is also very affordable – has your bases covered.
Choose from a wide selection of smoothies, juices, fruit teas, milk teas, fresh teas and fresh fruit slushes. They even have some premium salty mousse drinks. There’s no food at Chatime so bring a snack or grab something else nearby if you’re hungry!
Happy Cup
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- Multiple Locations
- Happy Cup YYC
Happy Cup used to be a single BBT shop in Calgary’s Woodbine community, but ever since has taken the entire city by storm with its real fruit smoothies, fresh fruit slushes, milk tea, bubble tea, sherbet and other drool-inducing drinks and desserts.
We love Happy Cup's rich BBT flavour and smooth texture. One of our favourites is the pineapple mango bubble tea, hands down one of Calgary's best fruit bubble teas. They load a lot of fruit into one cup, and you can taste the result.
Gong Cha
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- Multiple locations
- Gong Cha
Like Chatime, Gong Cha is another drink franchise in Canada that knows how to do bubble tea right. If you like milk tea, this BBT shop is a good choice. We prefer our milk tea to have a strong tea taste – not all milk. The same can’t be said for other bubble tea shops in Calgary.
We like Gong Cha’s unique drinks, like their milk foam black and green teas or their lemon wintermelon with basil seeds. One of our favourites is the QQ-passionfruit green tea with half lychee and half pearls. Gong Cha has multiple locations in the big city and surrounding areas, including Chinatown, Country Hills and CrossIron Mills, so you have several options to try out this best bubble tea shop in Calgary.
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