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| - In the downtown core, this is hands down the best bubble tea place.
There is an extensive menu with lots of different flavours and variations (hot, cold, fruit teas, black teas, green teas, slushes, etc.). What is also exceptionally amazing is the ability to dictate the level of sugar and ice in your drink (normal, more, less, zero, etc.). This customization along with the variation allows you to order to your heart's content.
Depending on when you show up, be prepared to face a line out the door onto the sidewalk. Due to its close proximity to Eaton Centre, Yonge/Dundas square, and Ryerson, you may face a long line. The line does go relatively quickly (depending on the people in line in front of you). The staff itself is awesome. Great at taking orders and working efficiently - seriously, the bottleneck is almost always the customers.
My fave and usual order is the roasted milk tea with grass jelly and tapioca, but with bubble tea, it's truly "as the heart desires" and what you consider is "awesome" will depend on each person's individual tastes.
The pricing of Chatime is consistent with more premium pricing of places within the GTA such as bubble tea from Ten Ren on Highway 7 and not food courts across the city, but in my opinion, well worth what they are charging. If you want $2-3 bubble tea, this is not the place for you. If you're willing to spend $5-7 for quality bubble tea, this should hit the spot nicely.
ChaTime is so good I go out of my way to make special trips to get my fix of bubble tea in downtown Toronto. This is somewhat major given my general laziness outside of work which pretty much only gets erased by killer awesome eats.
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