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    Fat Straw

    3.9 (309 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    FAT STRAW ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Classy
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups

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    Sarah M.

    Quick & friendly service. Cute space with lots of plants & artwork like stickers, charms, plushies, etc for sale. Ordered a winter melon iced milk tea with tapioca pearls. Tea was good but a little overly sweet, I would ask for less sugar next time. Tapioca pearls were perfectly cooked. Not hard & has the perfect chew. The tapioca is what makes or breaks a boba tea drink for me & Fat Straw seems to have the texture down! Overall, a cute little boba tea shop with good service & good tea. Would definitely recommend & return! Took off a star because while it's good, it's nothing mind blowing as far as menu items go. Pretty average run of the mill tea and topping options.

    Azzy N.

    Stumbled in a hot day and I've been addicted ever since. This place is incredible. Their selection of Boba and flavors for smoothies is unreal. My favorite flavor of smoothie is the lychee and passionfruit. If you're into Boba or smoothies this place is a gold mine.

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    Kate K.

    This place has such a cute aesthetic and a ton of drinks to choose from. The staff are very friendly and I've never had a bad drink from here. One of the best boba shops in Portland!

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    Albert T.

    I'll be honest - when we walked in front of the store and saw the menu we immediately thought that there was no way the milk tea here could be any good, given that it seemed that Fat Straw focused on artificially flavored drinks instead of tea. We decided to give it a chance and got one drink: Original Milk Tea, 50% Sweet w/ Boba ($6.75) - Pretty interesting how they make the drink. Instead of prebrewed tea in drink dispensers, as in a typical boba shop, they have buckets of prebrewed tea and boba in a fridge and they ladle the contents into your cup. Half sweetness is a bit less sweet than other places and really allows the black tea taste to come through. The tea quality is not the best, but good enough for the drink. The boba here is almost, but not quite, the perfect texture. It's a larger brand of boba in terms of size, it has a softer exterior but still maintains structural integrity. The exterior texture is to the point where if you slide your teeth across the topmost layer with a bit of force, the very topmost layer kind of sloughs off. You then get to a nice chewy interior as you bite into it. The sugar syrup soak introduces an additional bit of sweetness in the drink. I'm glad we gave Fat Straw a chance because it turned out to be much better than we thought. The boba was missing just a bit of the bounciness of what I consider perfect and the tea isn't the highest quality, but overall, I consider Fat Straw in the top quartile of places I've been to.

    Jasmine Vegan Milk Tea and Mango Ice Green Tea! Just a tiny bit annoyed that my drink wasn't filled to the top.
    Keely N.

    not open during covid-19 - I ordered the JASMIN milk tea with tapioca pearls and mango green tea with lychee jelly. I'm kind of upset that my drink wasn't filled to the top because I feel like this was a significant amount missing and I didn't ask for light ice :(

    Trisha F.

    Great prices, fast service. The location has a fair amount of seating, along with a side walk seating area out front. I thought the stainless steel boba straw was cool. Hemp milk latte was weird/bitter. Not sure if that's a hemp milk thing or a Fat Straw thing.

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    Ronn S.

    I never had a bubble tea before and I will say it was better than amazing - it was spectacular - omg I had a black tea with grapefruit and some coconut gummies it it! I'm sold on this place Ronn just Ronn The hole in the wall food guy

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    My favorite place to get bubble tea! Delicious drinks and everyone is so kind! Highly recommend going here!!!

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    I love their boba tea. They use coconut milk which is great for lactose free folks. They have many flavors.

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