Bubbleology

Update (Jan 15): Their creamer now contains dairy. Of course, why would they mention that to anyone? So, I’m no longer going here. I can pay they £3.60 for a much better tea (with real non-​dairy options) elsewhere. Sorry Bub!
Ever since Unilocal’s Meet the Owner event here, I always seem to make an excuse to swing by if I’m even remotely near.
Maybe I hold Bubbleology in higher regard than other bubble tea places since I am dairy-​free. Sure, I do love my go-​to mango and peach juice bubble tea (and still do!) since I couldn’t indulge in the milk teas. But Bubbleology changed all that. They use a non-​dairy and animal product-​free milk. Well then I went crazy and tried everything. I am now a taro bubble tea addict (it tastes like Oreo cookies!!!). Did I mention you can get anything either hot or cold? The hot taro was, shockingly, a bit too sickly for me so I stick to the cold version. Glad there are a few shops dotted around the city, so I am never too far from a hit.

If anyone can recommend me a route to here that doesn’t involve dashing through the streets with my hood up, racing past multiple knocking shops and strip clubs as I do so, then that would be fab. I’d honestly prefer to get my bubble tea fix without feeling like a dirty scoundrel.
The variation of hot/​cold combos and flavours here is just wonderful — choose your tea base, then your flavour, then whether you’d like it hot or cold. There’s a seemingly endless supply of combinations to try, although my personal favourite is the coconut. Note to self: stop ordering hot tea, as the tapioca balls shoot up the straw and scald the roof of your mouth.
The service is quick and friendly, and the prices are really reasonable. They also have a pretty nifty loyalty card scheme — who doesn’t want a free bubble tea, right? The seating is pretty limited/​non-​existent, so make sure you’ve mastered the art of slurping and walking. And try not to spill as you power walk past the flashing neon signs of «GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS».

J’ai découvert le bubble tea il y a peu de temps et en grande fan, je rattrape toutes ces années de temps perdu en testant tous les vendeurs de bubble tea de Londres. OUI, TOUS.
Donc Bubbleology est un de mes endroits préférés. La déco est complètement folle et rentrer ici, c’est comme rentrer dans un labo scientifique. Vendeurs en blouse blanche, tubes à essai avec des mixtures de toutes les couleurs, formules scientifiques sur des tableaux d’ardoise…
Pour ce qui est des boissons, elles viennent dans 2 formats différents (le grand est VRAIMENT grand) et il y un choix très grand choix de parfums dont les plus exotiques seraient: Tarot, Melon Jaune, Papaye, Gingembre et Kumquat. Vous pouvez y ajouter des billes de tapioca moelleuses ou des billes de gelé aux fruits, avec plus ou moins de sucre et plus ou moins de billes, tout est modifiable. Et grande nouveauté, si tu né vas pas au bubble tea, le bubble tea ira à toi. Livraison par scooter si tu es dans les environ des boutiques mais il faut passer par internet il me semble.
Perso, je suis resté dans le pas trop original avec un bubble tea glacé au thé + lait + coconut + billes de tapioca. Parfait pendant les grandes chaleurs de cet été (oui ça existe, je déconne pas).
Bref, tout ça aurait pu être parfait si l’accueil n’avait pas été aussi glacé que mon bubble tea. Mon accent laisse à désirer parfois et quand il y a du monde et qu’on prend du temps, ça dérange apparemment. Mais bon, ça valait le coup alors… go for it.

Think science lab and experience amazing concoction of tastes that burst in your mouth. I love this place as its central and I can take it with me whilst continue with my shopping

I’ve been here a few times, got a loyalty card and might come for more. Some combination of flavours taste good, which includes Mango and Passion Fruit. Taro tasted fine alone. The flavour that I was not fond of was Rainbow Ripple — not only does the drink have no relevance to its name, the flavour was horrible. It tasted like spoilt bubblegum — I think that would be the best way to describe it.
That aside, the shop itself is a decent place. However, the shop’s cleanliness needed sorting out — when I sat down with a friend to drink our bubble tea, the walls were sticky with some residue of an unknown substance on it.

First time ordering boba in the UK and I was super excited but greatly disappointed. It just didn’t taste fresh and flavorful. The boba was hard as well. In California, boba life is huge so I guess I may have high standards. I ordered a jasmine milk tea and the taste was really off.

I love bubble tea, but the place is mediocre. The boba was of middling quality, and while the science theme is charming, the place is expensive for boba, and there’s a shortage of seating, and wifi was broken while I was there. If you’re craving boba, it’ll satiate you, but it’s nothing special.

Whenever I’m in London, I like to sample a bit of east Asian cuisine here and there, and that often involves a stop for some bubble tea. Actually, to be more accurate, I don’t like the tapioca bubbles… but I love some milk tea :)
I love the idea of Bubbleology… it is set up to look like a chemistry lab, but for bubble tea. The staff even wear lab coats, which is really cool.
Being the boring bubble tea fan that I am, I ordered an Assam milk tea. I was a bit disappointed in the tea though. I’m not certain, but I think the milk may actually be from a powder mixture. Either that, or the tea is from a powder mixture, or both. While I mildly enjoyed the taste, I was left with a grainy texture in my mouth.
Also, when we went in to Bubbleology, there were at least two staff. But by the time we ordered our drinks, the second staff member was gone… for about 10 minutes. I didn’t officially time it, but it took 10 – 15 minutes to have our drinks made, and this was because there was only one person making the drinks. Honestly, I felt bad for the girl who was left alone to make drinks for about 10 people while her team mate took a badly timed break. Not cool for her, or any of the other customers.
There are loads of other bubble tea places in London to check out. I definitely won’t be going back to this one. Loads of potential, but doesn’t quite hit the mark.

This is the 2^nd time that I have been to bubbleology. Its OK I normally just get the juice tea flavoured bubble tea. Which is ok.
I really enjoy bubble tea in general and appreciate the authentic places, with the real tea and real fruit juice… which this places seems to lack. Their milk tea is made with powdered milk and tastes funny my friend said.
They seem to have gone with a hipster science angel and have lost the asian origins … next time I’ll convince my friend to go to another bubble tea place thats closer.

I do love a good bubble tea and Bubbleology always delivers. I am partial to the passionfruit tea which is a little sweeter than other places I’ve had it but not quite on the sickly side of sweet yet! The shop is cute like all their branches and the staff helpful and quick to serve. The bubble tea is a nice size with a good portion of tapioca.

Yum! Whenever I am missing a classic bubble tea, I am always sure to stop by here. The Assam bubble tea is on point and would make my taiwanese grandma proud!

I only go for original or taro milk tea when I buy bubble tea. Their Taro milk tea is great! At £3.75, it is around 50p less than than the normal prices. Probably main driver for my coming here :) They recently just reformulated their taro milk tea recipe so try it out.

Bubbleology is alright as a bubble tea provider. It’s not terrible. It’s not the best. The bubble tea is good but very commercialized. I wouldn’t have stopped in if I hadn’t tried the white peach bubble tea at the Time Traveller’s Ball.
I really enjoy the science décor and white lab coats. I think that’s one of the pull factors for return customers because the bubble tea itself isn’t the best ever. The staff were friendly and the restaurant was clean. When we arrived, the queue was out the door. I think based on that, I had higher hopes for my bubble tea yesterday.
I ordered a white peach tea with strawberry and mango popping boba. The tea was delicious, as were the boba, but it was much sweeter than the original white peach tea I tried at the Time Traveller’s Ball. Overall, I enjoyed my tea, but it was overly sweet.
I also tried some of the Englishman’s matcha milk tea with apple jelly. We make a more flavourful matcha milk tea at home, we agreed that it wasn’t very flavourful and relied on the jelly to provide more flavour. I thought the jelly was very difficult to stuck up with your straw. They are cut into thin cuboids that are too long to be easily sucked up with your straw, and were all left jammed together on the bottom of the cup at the end. The jelly was really chewy. We both agreed that we preferred the jelly at other bubble tea places, as the jelly here is quite hard. Personal preferences, I guess.
In terms of Bubbleology in regards to other competitors, I think I’ll stick with Up… T in Chinatown, where it is family run and everything is homemade. Seeing the staff pulling out giant tubs of premade branded boba and tapioca, made me realize how much I appreciate a good homemade bubble tea. It’s a fine art that must be appreciated.
If you’re on a mission for bubble tea and Bubbleology suddenly appears, you won’t regret your bubble tea experience there, it’s just not the best in London.

So yummy. So overpriced. But most bubble tea is. I enjoy the many flavors and combos Bubbleology offers, but wish they didn’t charge extra if you prefer popping boba over tapioca. Still, it’s super delicious and the mad scientist theme is just fun!

I always order its assam milk tea before, which is good, but today I decide to try another flavor. I ended up having a coconut milk tea, and was really disappointed. I expected it to be some coconut flavor on top of the milk tea taste, but it turned out to be… just extramely sweet coconut. No taste of milk tea at all. So I guess I will still go there, have the assam milk tea and try nothing new in the future.
Four star for the assam and two star for the coconut milk tea. So overall 3 stars.

Quick service and quality boba at a reasonable price.
Honeydew boba was like a stroll down memory lane, reminded me of my childhood. The sweetness of the Honeydew and the texture of the boba worked so perfectly. Will definitely come back to try the other flavors.
I also love the set up inside of the store. Boba + Chemistry: you can’t go wrong!

Mein erster und wahrscheinlich einziger Bubble Tea? Jawollja!
Nach einem Abend Überzeugungsarbeit hatte mich der Kollege soweit: Bubble Tea ist besser als sein Berliner Ruf, ist es wert probiert zu werden, könnte mir schmecken! Und er wüsste auch schon wo: Bubbleology!
Gesagt, getan, wir hatten ein Date und ich war neugierig. Bubbleology gibt es in London einige, wir verabredeten uns in Rupert Street — die hat den Vorteil, dass du bei schönem Wetter mit dem Tea in der Hand in den nahegelegenen Soho Square bummeln kannst, um ihn dort in der Sonne und schlürfen, fernab von Trubel und Co!
Die Auswahl überforderte mich gelinde gesagt und als kein Freund von künstlichen Farben und Chemie im Essen, blieb ich bis zum Schluss skeptisch. Schlussendlich wählte ich eine kalte Variante auf der Basis von Almond (Tea?), der quasi wie Mandel-​Milch schmeckt, leicht süss und süchtig machend und dazu dunkelblaue — das Auge isst schliesslich mit ;-) — «Specials» in Form von Blaubeer-​Tapioka-​Bällchen!
Und ja: Lecker! Nicht zu süss, gute Geschmackskombi, nicht zu bunt!

My daughter love their milk tea. The place is much cooler than other Chinese pearl tea restaurant. The location is smack inside Soho. We like it.

Ich liiiiiiiiiebe Bubbleology!
Viel von Bubble Tea gehört, musste ich es unbedingt mal ausprobieren und bin mit zwei Freunden in Soho auf die Suche gegangen und wir haben Bubbleology gefunden.
Man kann aus verschiedensten Fruchtgeschmäckern oder Milchteesorten auswählen und sich dazu die entsprechenden Bubbles und Geleestückchen wünschen.
Mein erster Versuch ging etwas in die Hose und der Apfeltee mit den Lycheestückchen war etwas zu sauer und allgemein eine schreckliche Kombination.
Meine Freunde hatten da ein besseres Händchen und hatten mit der Wahl eines Vanille-​Milch-​Tees total ins Schwarze getroffen. Dazu passt eigentlich auch jeder Bubblegeschmack.
Beim nächsten Mal habe ich dann auch einen Milch-​Tee gewählt und war begeistert! Die Bubbles sind witzig und lecker und sogar die Geleebällchen, die automatisch mit dabei sind, sind ok.
Dazu kommt die farbenfrohe Location im Laborstil, wo man sich wie in einer anderen Welt fühlt und einfach Freude bekommt.
Genialer Ort, wenn man den richtigen Drink auswählt.

Creative boba concept for my favorite drink. But Bubblelogy has limited choices and expensive for what you get. I am not such a big fan of fruit juice boba nor milk tea boba. I am more of a coffee boba drinker ergo my disappointment when I visited Bubblelogy. Since I have been boba deprived from my favorite boba store back in LA, I had to resort to whatever Bubblelogy offered. I got the passionfruit juice and paid extra for the boba. I am quite outraged of the London price of my favorite drink but I was left without much choice.
As for the boba itself, it was chewy and tender but lacking the sweetness. I understand that it is submerged in a fruit juice but it just not the same to what I was used to and enjoyed. Consquently, Bubblelogy has a wonderful concept but this time around I think «simplicity/​basic is beauty.» It was good to try but probably I will venture elsewhere.

I love Bubble Tea.
Love. Bubble. Tea!
I was first exposed to it back in the states and it’s become a favourite drink of mine, especially on a hot day (I know, they are few and far between in London, but when they come, my god.)
Turns out that London doesn’t actually have Bubble Tea. Someone told me there are only three busisnsses in the entierty of London doing it. Not sure if that’s true, but it’s close if anything. It’s just not a popular drink.
You want to try it? Try Bubbleology.
This small store is fantastic. First off, the bubble tea (which, by the way is a tea base mixed with fruit or milk that comes with tiny chew tapioca balls giving it a unique sensation of both being something you eat and drink) is amazing. Made in house the flavors are insane. I love the Taro which tastes like an Oreo cookie and the coconut which tastes like… Ok, well coconut. But damn good coconut!
But what really sets this place apart is the fun theme: Science! Formulas on the walls, test tubes and beakers in the window, workers in lab coats. Who doesn’t love science.
Also they call their workers bubbleologists, which just makes me happy.
Check it out, try some bubble tea, be happy.

Was looking for a bubble tea place since I had the craving for it, and bubbleology hit the spot! The café also looks like a science lab which makes it more fun.

I made it for the Get Bubbly @ Bubbleology and when I was planning on being back in the city this bank holiday weekend, I knew I had to stop by for another cup of crack. I mean, bubble tea!
You can’t miss the place on Rupert Street. Black paint with lots of rainbow colors. Because they serve the whole gamut of bubble teas here. Having sampled so many last week, I knew which one I wanted today. Almond! Delicious with a good sampling of tapioca balls, ice cubes and great almond flavor. Very cooling on a warm day.
The inside of the place was an oven — they’re still working on air conditioning or some sort of cross breeze. So I sat outside at one of the folding tables to enjoy my bubble deliciousness.
The same staff, looking like they were a little exhausted by the heat and the crowds. The place was packed and quite toasty even with four fans running. It was funny to see the clean white lab coats they were wearing last week are now spotted with bubble tea colors. Assad was certainly enjoying himself and it was cool to see that he remembered me from the other day.