Weekend Tea isn’t just for the weekend, it’s for every day of the week. Weekend Tea specializes in instagramable bubble tea drinks including yogurt drinks, dirty milk teas, fruit teas and sodas. They make everything fresh in-house and focuses on using fresh ingredients for their drinks. Weekend tea only lets you change the sweetness of a few of their drinks. They say they ensure that each one is made the same for optimal flavour.
The interior of the cafe has a large wall with lots of greenery fo meet all your photoshoot needs. You can tell that the cafe put a lot of effort into ensuring that their cafe and drinks are both perfect for the occasional photo opt. The order counter isn’t very large and the waiting area was quite small. Grayson and I ordered our items for takeout on a Saturday afternoon and the waiting area in the cafe was packed.
The experience
When we walked into the cafe, we saw two busy people working away to make drinks. I wasn’t greeted at any point in time which is fine since they were busy and I arrived before my pick up time. A good 5 minutes pass by and I ask them if my order is ready and they say no. After waiting another 15 minutes, I ask about my drink since it’s past my pick up time. But, they still say my drink is not ready. So, we decide to go for a walk and come back.
We get back 15 minutes later and they still do not give me any information regarding my drink and when I finally manage to ask, they tell me it will still take 20 more minutes. Mind you by now I had already waited 30 minutes for our drinks and were asked to wait another 20 more minutes. I have no issue with having to wait for my drink. All I ask is for the pick up time to be accurate because I spent practically an hour there waiting for my drink with no updates on my drink. However, since the store “accepted” my pick up order and clicked “ready to pick up” on the app, I couldn’t even cancel my order! I understand that the cafe was clearly under-staffed that day from incoming orders but some communication really would have helped make the whole experience less frustrating.
Grape yogurt
The grape yogurt is one of their most popular drinks and looked like a galaxy so I decided to see what it was all about. Whole milk yogurt was smeared along the sides of the cup to make the white and grape slush is added to make the purple colour. There were grape peels in the drink but they do not add real grapes to the blender. It was a dark purple syrup type thing that they add into the blender amongst other things to create the slush. The grape slush tasted like grape flavoured candy more than real grape. The bottom of the drink had white pearls to add texture. I ordered this drink 50% sweet and it was almost a little much for me.
Lychee fruit tea
The lychee fruit tea is another one of their more popular drinks. It was a nice rosy pink colour with rose tea to compliment it. The rose flavour was was quite strong so if you’re not used to it, you might not be a fan. You can order the drink with extra toppings but it already comes with aloe vera and lychee bits.
Mango Osmanthus Tea
This tea was one of their newer creations. Grayson liked the texture of the white pearls and osmanthus jelly in the drink. The flavour of the mango was light because we ordered it unsweetened. There were mango chunks in the drink too but the pieces weren’t very ripe so they were stringy and tough. If the mango was riper, Grayson says the drink would definitely be a full 5/5 stars!
