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4.3 (19 reviews)
Closed • 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Ube Brown Sugar Boba Crème Brulee milk
Pablo H.

I love coming to this place every chance I get! The staff is super friendly and welcoming, the drinks are so tasty and the cruffles are delicious. They currently have a promotion going where you roll a dice and if you roll a 1, your drink is free!

Assam milk tea with salted cream
Stephanie S.

I ordered the Assam milk tea with salted cream. The drink was good, perfect sweetness. The person that took my order was nice and answered a couple questions that I had. I will be back to try a different drink since they have quite a few options. They also have a donut like sweet snack option.

Yan W.

It was grand opening when I went and it was good because it was BOGO. It came with the Royal 9 Milk Tea 100% sweet. That was incredibly sweet, and the tea was very subtle. The specific one I ordered was the Jasmine Green Milk Tea that was 25% sweet. That was good and the tea flavor was strong and present. I've tried The Alley in Canada many years ago and it's nice to have another option but there are quite a few boba shops that are a few blocks away. It might be a bit competitive.

Got to take a picture with their grand opening balloons!
Jenny P.

I am so glad to have checked out this gem! When you enter, you feel so welcomed and cozy with its nice interior design and decor. The staff are nice and welcoming also! I tried the ube brown sugar boba crème brulee drink and it was so good! There are so many other drinks to choose from, I can't wait to return to try the others, like their tiramisu drink!

Lindsey H.

The Alley is one of my favorite boba spots in town because of the variety of drinks they offer. They're different than the typical milk and fruit teas, and are very creative when it comes to experimenting with flavors and textures. I had been to The Alley in SE Portland, as well as in other states and even internationally, and it always impresses. My favorite, go-to drink is the lychee yogurt! It's refreshing, and uses handmade lychee jelly, rather than the store-bought rectangular jellies that boba shops usually use. This time around, I got to try a TON of their drinks as well as their croffles, and can say that they were all ones I would order again. I like my drinks extremely sweet, and will always get 100% sweetness, so am biased in that regard. If you prefer less sweet, I would recommend ordering a percentage or two down since the drinks' default is pretty high in sweetness. The space is beautiful and contemporary, and a spot I could see myself and friends hanging out at often. The staff is also super friendly and happy to answer any questions you have! Great new addition to Beaverton :)

Soft launch schedule
Jonathan Y.

Came back to try the crunchy tiramisu milk tea. Didn't realize it was a blended drink, but overall it was good. The tiramisu flavor is pretty light and not sweet enough to my liking. Once you mix the tiramisu foam on top all the little crunchies get really soggy. We also tried the Ube Taro drink, and that was actually pretty good. Lots of taro chunks throughout the drink. Service was great and friendly as usual.

Jez V.

So excited The Alley opened a location in the burbs! I first tried them in Hawaii so I was excited when I heard about this location opening near me. Came during soft opening week and was pleasantly surprised. There was no line and staff were friendly. The cafe itself has a warm, elegant ambiance. Love the furniture selection as well. We got the Ube taro brown sugar boba milk tea and the strawberry green tea with jelly. Both were delicious! I'd recommend getting less or half sweet for the green tea. The green tea jelly it comes with is homemade and so flavorful. Dangerous for my wallet that this cafe opened up near me because I will be visiting often!

Original Purple Rice Yogurt
Kim L.

My mom has been OBSESSED with the purple rice yogurt drink at The Alley so she finally dragged me there to try it. She was right! It's so good and fun to drink/eat. It comes with rice and jelly toppings so there's something to chew on after every sip. I also haven't seen this particular drink anywhere else in Beaverton or Portland so it's really one-of-a-kind and very unique. The interior of the place is really warm and inviting. There are plenty of comfy seating options, which is much appreciated as a lot of cafes have a very rough decor with no cushion accents these days.

Ube brown sugar crème brulee milk tea
Meggie T.

Super cute interior with lots of seating! Drinks were made super quickly as there was no wait. Tried their highly recommended ube brown sugar crème brûlée milk tea and it was great! Perhaps a tad too sweet, so next time I'll be adjusting the sugar.

Ube Milk Tea with brown sugar boba
Rachel P.

I love love LOVE this place. Their Ube milk tea is to die for. Clean, great service & very cozy. Staff is kind! I ordered incorrectly and staff was happy to re-make my drink and explain how I could order it properly in the future.

Hands down one of the worst experiences I've had at a boba shop. I ordered a croffle, and what they gave me was an absolute disaster completely melted. It was literally inedible. How do you even mess up a croffle this badly? For the prices they charge, this is unacceptable. The boba drink was mediocre at best, and honestly, I couldn't even enjoy it after that mess of a croffle Save your money and go somewhere that actually knows how to serve food. This place is a joke

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this is the best boba place that I have ever been to I would come here everyday!! I 100% recommend

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Hechalou Tea House & Jelly

Hechalou Tea House & Jelly

4.3(65 reviews)
0.3 mi
Free WiFi
Large group friendly

Nice addition for a more specialized tea forward store…read more They specialize in their flavored jellies. It's my first time here and decided to try their one of their house drinks. I got the house blend milk tea with sesame jelly with 100% sweetness and 30% ice. I would say the 100% sweetness tastes more like 70% at your typical boba place. I got their original egg puff which came with 3 pieces. It was good. They have lots of different teas available. I would come again to try other drinks.

This is the second location of Hechalou I've visited. It has the same aesthetics but it's quite…read moredifferent in terms of menu and drink construction from the location north of Seattle that I visited regularly. There are two kiosks for easy ordering. We walked in just a couple of minutes after they opened on a Monday and were the first customers inside. House Blend Pearl Milk Tea, 10% Sweet, 30% Ice w/ Boba ($6.25) - I'll start by saying that 10% is not nearly enough for this drink, totally unlike the Lynnwood location where anything over 10% sweet is cloyingly sweet for me. I ended up asking for a small cup of syrup on the side and titrated the drink until I thought it was sweet enough. My guess is that it took until around 50% sweet. With that out of the way, the flavor is identical to what I've had before. Rich malty taste with plenty of body. It's a very solid milk tea. This hechalou only has sugar syrup soaked boba, not a choice of honey or brown sugar boba as in Lynnwood. My guess is this is one of the reasons why the sweetness level is so different. Probably honey and/or brown sugar soak adds more sweetness to the drink than whatever soak they use here. The boba is a little firmer than Lynnwood and isn't as flavorful. Still miles ahead of most boba shops in the US though. Milk Tea Rating: 4.5/5 Boba Rating: 4.5/5 Osmanthus Oolong Milk Tea, 10% Sweet, 30% Ice w/ Boba ($7.05) - Again, this one isn't sweet enough and I had to add more sugar. The drink itself is strongly flowery, again very consistent with the other location. It's a very solid drink. Milk Tea Rating: 4.5/5 This location of Hechalou still serves some top tier drinks. I'll just have to remember the next time I visited to get 50% sweet rather than 10%. Bathrooms - Single unisex room.

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The Alley

4.5(65 reviews)
14.3 mi•Mill Park
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Cute and modern tea shop. Service is always top-notch! 2 staff working, and it was moderately…read morebusy. I was impressed by how efficient and fast I got my drink being that only one person was spinning out the drinks. It took just under five minutes to get my drink. Amazing! Ordered - Strawberry Matcha, 50% sweet. If you like sweet, go for 75% or full. I would go with 75% next time as well. Beautiful looking drink by the way. There are so many tea shops around. The Alley is one worth going to everytime!

I have mixed feelings about this place! It's the closest tea shop to me, and the service is…read moreextremely efficient; sometimes frighteningly fast. The last time, I only waited about 30 seconds after ordering before the drink was ready. That said, their drinks are overall really hit or miss. I found their signature royal milk tea was really bitter and almost soapy, so I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Their seasonal camellia drinks were delicious and refreshing. The mango milk tea mostly just tasted like sour milk. The mango mochi milk was sweet and refreshing, but a bit confusing because the mochi was so hot and gloopy, not the sort of Japanese mochi I'm used to, and the drink was so cold, so it was an odd contrast... As for the sweets, they're really expensive. I bought a matcha cookie once but it was sort of terrible... The taste was odd, and it was somehow simultaneously doughy and stale. I wouldn't buy food there again, but I might come back some time to try a different drink.

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The Alley - Interior decor

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The Alley - Royal No.9 Milk Tea

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Meet Fresh - Double Taro Signature

Meet Fresh

4.0(118 reviews)
3.1 mi•Southwest Portland
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This has become a family staple. We were so excited to learn they'd be coming to Portland (we'd had…read moreit several times in the Bay), and even more excited when they moved to Hillsboro!! My family will literally plan dinners out to somewhere nearby so we can hit up Meet Fresh for dessert. And I'm so glad they updated their hours to close at 9!! Only downside is the remodel.. it's a bit more cramped for seating, but it makes sense that they have more space in the back to work. Between the 4 of us, we usually get 2-3 items. My ALL-TIME FAVES are the hot purple rice, the hot grass jelly, and the mango berry shaved ice. I love piling on the mochi & potato balls. Gimme all of it.

First off, the location was not what was pictured on Yelp. It is inside Tiger Banh Mi in an area…read morethat felt a bit sketchy. We ordered the Icy Grass Jelly Signature, which should have included taro balls and grass jelly, but instead received the hot version with red beans, boba, and grass jelly. It seems the employee entered the wrong order, and unfortunately we did not realize it until we got back to our hotel. Overall, it was not a good experience. We do not like red beans and the bowl was filled with them, which made the dessert unappealing. There was also an intoxicated man at the counter trying to get our attention and being somewhat obnoxious, which added to the discomfort. We grabbed our dessert quickly and left. I would not return.

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