3852 boba reviews later — here’s what to order at the best boba shops in San Francisco, according to Simmer.
I have never once gotten to the cash register and known what to order. That’s because restaurant reviews are flawed. People who order different things have different experiences. A Yelp review, for example, could be attributed to a customer’s experience eating the restaurant’s signature dish… or its soggy off-menu hamburger. Point is, it’s hard to make a decision based off a cumulative rating.
That’s why I use the Simmer app (formerly named Foodie) to decide what to order, because Simmer is a *dish* review platform. Like a dish decider.
We aggregate food reviews that mention dishes across the internet, from food delivery to personal blogs, and analyze them to rate dishes out of five stars.
For the Boba Cheat Sheet, we used this same technology to analyze 3852 reviews to determine the top teas from 30 of the most popular SF boba shops.
What to order at the top 10 boba shops in SF
- Little Sweet — High Mountain Milk Tea
- Black Sugar — Ice Cream Tea Float
- Tea Hut — Mango Dreamer
- Urban Ritual — White Grape Yuzu
- Teaspoon — Taro Lover
- Plentea — Matcha Latte
- STEEP Creamery & Tea — Tangerine Kumquat Tea
- TJ Cups — Vanilla Ice Cream Milk Tea
- Qualitea — Passion Cooler
- Boba Guys — Golden Honey Black Tea
Make sure you download the Simmer app so you can see ratings, comments, and pictures for every boba shop in San Francisco. To download Simmer, click here for iPhone and click here for Android!
Curious about other lists? We’ll be publishing cheat sheets for chicken and waffles, lobster po boys, and other popular dishes — so give us a follow on Instagram to get notified when they drop. And, of course, we’ll be doing East Bay and South Bay boba cheat sheets soon :)
Happy sipping!
Richard from the Simmer Team
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