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Rare Tea

Bubble tea · Oakland

4.2 · 103 reviews Google
www.rareteausa.com

About Rare Tea

Located in Oakland, Rare Tea offers a diverse and delightful tea experience. We provide convenient options to enjoy our offerings, including delivery, takeout, and dine-in service. We pride ourselves on a great tea selection to satisfy every palate. Rare Tea is committed to accessibility, featuring...

Located in Oakland, Rare Tea offers a diverse and delightful tea experience. We provide convenient options to enjoy our offerings, including delivery, takeout, and dine-in service. We pride ourselves on a great tea selection to satisfy every palate. Rare Tea is committed to accessibility, featuring a wheelchair accessible entrance. For payment convenience, we accept credit cards, debit cards, and NFC mobile payments. We are open seven days a week, with slightly extended hours on Friday and Saturday. Come visit us and see why our customers have rated us 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 103 reviews!

What Customers Say About Rare Tea

Rare Tea is a popular spot known for its fresh fruit teas, delicious boba, and friendly service. Customers rave about the real fruit used in their drinks and the perfectly cooked boba. The musubi and popcorn chicken are also frequently mentioned as tasty food options.

Popular Dishes

boba (7) musubi popcorn chicken (4) peach tea mango smoothie Okinawa tea taro milk tea

Best For

Quick Bite Casual Locals

Tip: Try the fruit teas with real blended fruit for a refreshing and delicious experience, and add lychee jelly to your drink!

Features

🚗 Delivery Accessible

What to see nearby

Colby Park
A 510m

Colby Park

parque

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Rockridge Park
A 810m

Rockridge Park

parque

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Explore the area around Rare Tea

Rare Tea is located in Oakland, surrounded by cultural and historical points of interest. Here are some of the most notable places nearby.

Parks & Gardens

  • Colby Park (A 510m) — park in Alameda County, California, United States of America
  • Rockridge Park (A 810m) — park in Alameda County, California, United States of America

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Frequently asked questions about Rare Tea

Rare Tea is located at 5817 College Ave, Oakland, CA 94618, Oakland.
Near Rare Tea you can find points of interest such as Colby Park, Rockridge Park.
Rare Tea offers bubble_tea cuisine.
Rare Tea has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
Rare Tea offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway, delivery.
The most recommended dishes at Rare Tea based on customer reviews are: boba, musubi, popcorn chicken, peach tea, mango smoothie.
Rare Tea is ideal for quick bites, casual dining, locals.
Rare Tea is a popular spot known for its fresh fruit teas, delicious boba, and friendly service. Customers rave about the real fruit used in their drinks and the perfectly cooked boba. The musubi and popcorn chicken are also frequently mentioned as tasty food options.
Try the fruit teas with real blended fruit for a refreshing and delicious experience, and add lychee jelly to your drink!
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Rare Tea Oakland Reviews

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Reviews (40)
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Camilo Dolorier

really delicious crunchy tater tots and good boba, they don’t put hella ice in there like other places do 🤞🏼🙏🏼

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Rica Carlos

The boba milk tea is delicious! Lots of choices in drinks and food. My son loves their popcorn chicken.

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Lily Dang

Great local restaurant that just opened up in rockridge! I'm most excited that there is now a boba place. They serve food here too and it's got great serving and I would say you can definitely share one of their rice bowl or salad. Affordable prices and great service! I hope they stay in the neighborhood!

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Annalise Aldin

Delicious fruit tea, you can tell they use real fruit and juice not artificial flavor. The musubi are made to order not prepacked too.

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Josh!

Awesome place with large menu and many options to choose from. Service is fast as well. Everything I’ve had tastes very fresh and real. The tea flavor really stands out in every drink. Definitely recommend!

Camilo Dolorier
Camilo Dolorier

really delicious crunchy tater tots and good boba, they don’t put hella ice in there like other places do 🤞🏼🙏🏼

Rica Carlos
Rica Carlos

The boba milk tea is delicious! Lots of choices in drinks and food. My son loves their popcorn chicken.

Lily Dang
Lily Dang

Great local restaurant that just opened up in rockridge! I'm most excited that there is now a boba place. They serve food here too and it's got great serving and I would say you can definitely share one of their rice bowl or salad. Affordable prices and great service! I hope they stay in the neighborhood!

Annalise Aldin
Annalise Aldin

Delicious fruit tea, you can tell they use real fruit and juice not artificial flavor. The musubi are made to order not prepacked too.

Josh!
Josh!

Awesome place with large menu and many options to choose from. Service is fast as well. Everything I’ve had tastes very fresh and real. The tea flavor really stands out in every drink. Definitely recommend!

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Heidi Schimpf

Stopped here on a whim one day and have been craving it and coming back ever since! They put real blended fruit into many of their bubble teas and drinks which is refreshing and delicious and makes it stand out from the other cafes nearby.

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Serena Meyer

I love this particular store. Let me expound. The ice: not too much. They don't skimp on the tea and give you a cup of ice. The cup: larger than most stores Milk: they make it taste like cream. It's the best. Tea: perfection Boba: perfectly cooked

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hdtag31

Great staff they are extremely nice helpful very attentive to everything that’s going around them they say please thank you and I really feel they appreciate the business that I give them. The bobas are out of this world, and they have a wide variety of food that she is from. I definitely would recommend this place and I’ve taken mini friends here.

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Mychal Nitta

We order from here frequently on UberEats. One of our favorites to treat ourselves on a tough day or surprise for my wife. We have tried an assortment of drinks from here, but always add lychee jelly. The musubi are usually solid too

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Sophia Lin

We got the peach fruit tea mango smoothie and popcorn chicken, all of which were fantastic. The workers are very nice and they gave us our food very quickly. The boba is chewy and sweet and the drink has just the right amount of tea. I would say it’s a pretty small shop but it has a good ambiance and has games that you can play too! Would definitely recommend!!

Sophia Lin
Sophia Lin

We got the peach fruit tea mango smoothie and popcorn chicken, all of which were fantastic. The workers are very nice and they gave us our food very quickly. The boba is chewy and sweet and the drink has just the right amount of tea. I would say it’s a pretty small shop but it has a good ambiance and has games that you can play too! Would definitely recommend!!

Mychal Nitta
Mychal Nitta

We order from here frequently on UberEats. One of our favorites to treat ourselves on a tough day or surprise for my wife. We have tried an assortment of drinks from here, but always add lychee jelly. The musubi are usually solid too

Heidi Schimpf
Heidi Schimpf

Stopped here on a whim one day and have been craving it and coming back ever since! They put real blended fruit into many of their bubble teas and drinks which is refreshing and delicious and makes it stand out from the other cafes nearby.

hdtag31
hdtag31

Great staff they are extremely nice helpful very attentive to everything that’s going around them they say please thank you and I really feel they appreciate the business that I give them. The bobas are out of this world, and they have a wide variety of food that she is from. I definitely would recommend this place and I’ve taken mini friends here.

Serena Meyer
Serena Meyer

I love this particular store. Let me expound. The ice: not too much. They don't skimp on the tea and give you a cup of ice. The cup: larger than most stores Milk: they make it taste like cream. It's the best. Tea: perfection Boba: perfectly cooked

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My Hoa N.

Checked out this little spot in Rockridge. Decent place for boba tea. Popcornb chicken wasn't my favorite, the batter was thicker than what I was used to. Friendly staff and quick service.

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Garth Epling-Card

It's a nice small family run shop. Service can be a bit slow, bring a post it note and an artistic nature so you can add to their collection. Food and drinks were above average.

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Ruby Rosenberg

Have always liked this place. It’s very convenient and the tea is good. Just wanted to comment and say the brown sugar milk tea “with fresh milk” has powdered milk in it. Why even put “with fresh milk” if you’re just going to use powdered??? Just seems misleading and weird.

My Hoa N.
My Hoa N.

Checked out this little spot in Rockridge. Decent place for boba tea. Popcornb chicken wasn't my favorite, the batter was thicker than what I was used to. Friendly staff and quick service.

Garth Epling-Card
Garth Epling-Card

It's a nice small family run shop. Service can be a bit slow, bring a post it note and an artistic nature so you can add to their collection. Food and drinks were above average.

Ruby Rosenberg
Ruby Rosenberg

Have always liked this place. It’s very convenient and the tea is good. Just wanted to comment and say the brown sugar milk tea “with fresh milk” has powdered milk in it. Why even put “with fresh milk” if you’re just going to use powdered??? Just seems misleading and weird.

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Exiled Lizard635

The Milk Black Tea they have doesn't taste that good (it tastes like walnut milk in my opinion). I recommend you to get the Lemon Black Tea, it's Goooood. Great food, I love popcorn chicken 🐔...

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Boba Reviews Dude mysterious guy in an alley

The price and size were very reasonable, and employee's were super nice (although they asked if we were related to our cousin for some reason, kinda strange but friendly). The boba and teas were delicious, and they had plenty of yummy options to choose from. They also had some food options, although we didn't try the meat thing our cousin got, cause we're vegetarian. Made my day better, so glad I went. This place is so much better than Boba Guys, which is just down the street. Do not try to go there, it won't be good. great place to get boba at RareTea!

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Griffin H.

I ordered a peach tea with boba, and it was very good. They have a wide variety of flavors and additions you can get. It's cheaper than other bubble tea locations nearby, and the quality is on par. The only complaint I have is that sometimes there is pulp from whatever fruit flavor you order (mango, passion fruit, peach, etc.) So keep that in mind when ordering. Overall 4.5/5

Exiled Lizard635
Exiled Lizard635

The Milk Black Tea they have doesn't taste that good (it tastes like walnut milk in my opinion). I recommend you to get the Lemon Black Tea, it's Goooood. Great food, I love popcorn chicken 🐔...

Boba Reviews Dude mysterious guy in an alley
Boba Reviews Dude mysterious guy in an alley

The price and size were very reasonable, and employee's were super nice (although they asked if we were related to our cousin for some reason, kinda strange but friendly). The boba and teas were delicious, and they had plenty of yummy options to choose from. They also had some food options, although we didn't try the meat thing our cousin got, cause we're vegetarian. Made my day better, so glad I went. This place is so much better than Boba Guys, which is just down the street. Do not try to go there, it won't be good. great place to get boba at RareTea!

Griffin H.
Griffin H.

I ordered a peach tea with boba, and it was very good. They have a wide variety of flavors and additions you can get. It's cheaper than other bubble tea locations nearby, and the quality is on par. The only complaint I have is that sometimes there is pulp from whatever fruit flavor you order (mango, passion fruit, peach, etc.) So keep that in mind when ordering. Overall 4.5/5

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Peter Paul

Okinawa tea: Got less sweet. Wish I didn’t. Not terrible though. Fried Oreos: not good. Save yourself $6. Lots of boba and food to choose from. May try again next time.

Peter Paul
Peter Paul

Okinawa tea: Got less sweet. Wish I didn’t. Not terrible though. Fried Oreos: not good. Save yourself $6. Lots of boba and food to choose from. May try again next time.

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Tracy Guan

the taro milk tea is artificial and bland.

Tracy Guan
Tracy Guan

the taro milk tea is artificial and bland.

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Roy Luo

Been here few times but I found out there is a male cashier always going outside to smoke and play his own phone, the point is he didn’t WASH HANDS at all when he returning to the store and work. Man this is not good! You should care about customer’s health and safety! Also the milk tea tastes weird!

Roy Luo
Roy Luo

Been here few times but I found out there is a male cashier always going outside to smoke and play his own phone, the point is he didn’t WASH HANDS at all when he returning to the store and work. Man this is not good! You should care about customer’s health and safety! Also the milk tea tastes weird!

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Lunchbox

I occasionally order from this place for my lunch break. Yesterday I put in an order on doordash at around 2:10pm to be picked up at 3:15. At 2:25 I recieved a message that my food was already ready to pick up. At 2:42 I recieved another message that my food had already been picked up. When I arrived at 3:15 my food was thankfully still there but the food was cold, the lettuce in the salad was wilted, and the ice in the tea had melted and was warm. When I asked why my food had been sitting out for so long I discovered that the system this place uses doesn't show the employees scheduled pick up times despite it being an option in the door dash app. And because they marked it as already picked up before I arrived I was unable to get a full refund. Because I was on a limited lunch break I was forced to take said food and attempt to get some form of refund from doordash directly. Not only did the employees try to brush it off as not being their fault they also did not offer any form of compensation. This isn't the first time this blunder has happened either. While the food and tea are both normally decent, I wouldn't recommend this place if you plan on ordering ahead. Order when you arrive and wait the 20 minutes it usually takes when you do so. Very disappointed.

Lunchbox
Lunchbox

I occasionally order from this place for my lunch break. Yesterday I put in an order on doordash at around 2:10pm to be picked up at 3:15. At 2:25 I recieved a message that my food was already ready to pick up. At 2:42 I recieved another message that my food had already been picked up. When I arrived at 3:15 my food was thankfully still there but the food was cold, the lettuce in the salad was wilted, and the ice in the tea had melted and was warm. When I asked why my food had been sitting out for so long I discovered that the system this place uses doesn't show the employees scheduled pick up times despite it being an option in the door dash app. And because they marked it as already picked up before I arrived I was unable to get a full refund. Because I was on a limited lunch break I was forced to take said food and attempt to get some form of refund from doordash directly. Not only did the employees try to brush it off as not being their fault they also did not offer any form of compensation. This isn't the first time this blunder has happened either. While the food and tea are both normally decent, I wouldn't recommend this place if you plan on ordering ahead. Order when you arrive and wait the 20 minutes it usually takes when you do so. Very disappointed.

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11AM-8:30PM
Rating
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💬 Reviews
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+1 510-817-4435
🌐 Website
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Colby Park

park in Alameda County, California, United States of America

A 510m
Rockridge Park

park in Alameda County, California, United States of America

A 810m
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