Addictea Cafe

This place is located in the tunnels near Fannin/​Mckinney streets.
Their teas are always a little sweeter so I opt for 50% level sweetness. Their milk tea with honey boba is pretty good and will satisfy your bubble craving, but it’s not like the places in Chinatown with chewy tapioca. Their milk tea is creamy and sweet and is really good even without the tapioca. I’ve also tried some of their fruit flavors of black and green tea (such as passion fruit, mango, and blueberry). Once again it’s on the sweeter side. I’m guessing it’s the syrup they use. Overall great place for a sweet drink.
Also, they offer food now. Like vermicelli and banh mi. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I’ll update my review when I get a chance to.

I got a delicious Grilled Pork and Pâté Banh Mi sandwich. The bread was excellent and condiments very fresh. Definitely going to drop in again, but this time cave and add a red velvet cupcake. Cupcakes look awesome for a coffee break.
This place is in the Houston Tunnels, next to the dumpling place and down between Charlies BBQ and Lenny Sandwiches.

I’m so glad to find an authentic bubble tea place in downtown! Their cup is huge, same size cup as the honeybee in Chinatown but even cheaper price point. I tried both their Thai tea and seasalt greentea, and both are high quality (not artificial powder taste). For $ 8.29 you can pick any sandwich and any tea drink, no a bad deal for a convenient downtown location!

Had the black tea with blueberries and mango jelly. Wow! I also had the ba mi. I know I messed up the spelling, but to die for. This place is authentic with flare.

Since my last review, I’ve ordered a cake for my boss’s birthday and it was so delicious! We got a chocolate with chocolate icing. I went back today to order another for a staff birthday and she said that she’d need over a days notice to have a cake for me. I think 24 hours notice is plenty for a Downtown bakery that is clearly only selling cakes for Downtown workers birthdays… Ugh, oh well. The cakes are tasty, bubble teas delicious. just need 2 days advance notice for a cake.

What’s with always being «sold out» of tapioca? In the last 5 visits I’ve made here, 4 have been out of tapioca. I don’t understand how a business can be out of something they sell every single day. Doubt they receive a limited quantity every day.

Love the HH here that starts at 2pm! $ 3 drinks
I wish they had a little bit more variety and had some of the traditional drinks (i.e. milk tea, jasmine milk tea, coffee milk tea). I normally get the Matcha Frappé since I don’t love the fruity boba drinks.

I got the caramel icy milk… I was hesitant but it was definitely the right choice. It was so good and well blended… a little too sweet so next time I will ask for less caramel.

I’m glad there’s a tapioca place right below my work. I don’t have to travel far for decent boba. It’s good enough to satisfy my boba cravings whenever I have them. I woudln’t have them all the time, but every once in a while is alright.
I would recommend coming during their happy hour (M-​F 2PM — 4PM). Drinks are $ 1 off.

Coming from Singapore, I really missed bubble tea so I decided to check this place out. And my oh my I am not disappointed :) their ice latte with pudding is to die for (and it tastes a bit like biscuits, which is always a good thing :)). It’s a bit tough to find the place though, especially if you are new to Houston and do not work downtown. But the search is definitely worth it. Their cupcakes look delicious too but I shall abstain today :)

I got to these «tunnels» by going down the escalator in the corporate building on the corner.
My green tea bubble tea was delicious. I like that she asked me if I wanted the syrup light, medium, or sweet.
I agree with a previous reviewer that the macaroons were too sweet.

So good! My face is smiling ear to ear that there is a new boba place in downtown!!! Ok ok, it’s not new-​new. It’s three months old, but I was on sabbatical. Welcome back to me!!!
Tip for those that don’t work here. If you park somewhere by the parkshops or by 1001 Fannin, there’s an easy escalator down to the store! The tea is delicious and so are the honey bobas!
Can’t wait to try their desserts (cakes, macaroons & cupcakes)!

AddicTea Café gets above four stars from me, maybe… 4.5? At least based on first impressions and taste, I will definitely be coming here again. Along with the fact that this place is but a 5 – 6 blocks away from Discovery Green Park, I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t be back!
As other reviews have said, you gotta go down in the ground to find this small, tucked-​away place. The relative obscure location doesn’t even show up on Google maps, hahaha.
That being said, the storefront is a lot smaller than what I first expected. It’s not a «café» in its own building; rather, it is located in a food court type setting in underground Houston. This shop has a distinctly modern Asian feel, and drinks such as matcha and red bean do the trick — right next door is the cleverly named BaoZ Dumplings from which you can get some potstickers to go with your drink!
After trying some of my friends’ drinks, I can say that I made a pretty good decision — caramel icy milk. You can pick two sinkers (boba, various jellies, etc) to go with it, and I went with honey boba and coffee jelly to accompany the creamy milk. Another thing that made this place distinctly Asian was that you could pick between light, regular, and heavy syrup (oh, so many feels and appreciation ;A;). I went with light syrup so the milk wasn’t sweet at all, but the condiments did a good job of balancing everything out to taste quite yummy ~ It reminded me a lot of Half and Half Teahouse in LA, if anyone has also been there!
This place’s menu seems to be tax-​included, so whatever is listed for the $ 4 – 5 dollar drinks (which are a bit on the pricier side, yeah I know) on the menu is exactly what you pay.
I think I was very moved with the fact that I found a little café that makes Asian drinks as well as they do in Cali. So, even though they’re on the more expensive side, I was impressed by the flavor. This place eez gewd.

If you’re trying to find this place, you have to look underground. It’s in the tunnels!
We came here with groupons, and while the owner/​workers were very friendly, the drinks were only okay. We got the sea salt jasmine milk tea and the matcha smoothie, and both tasted watered down/​overly icy. Granted, we did order light sugar so that may have contributed to the flavorlessness, but I still think that the drinks could have been richer and less watery.
We also tried a macaron from here, and it was too sweet for me. Even if you have a sweet tooth, I probably wouldn’t recommend getting macarons from here. I would stick to the drinks since that’s more of their specialty. Their cupcakes and cakes look really pretty though! All sparkly and stuff :)
I think they have great potential, so I hope their drinks do get better! Next time, I’ll order them with normal sugar and see how it goes.

This place is awesome!
I got the Passion fruit cupcake which has fillings. Not too sweet, but flavorful. This hits the spot! I hate eating cupcakes which are overloaded with sugar.
For a drink, I ordered the Jasmine sea salt green tea which is divine! Sea salt cream on top of sweetened green tea! If you shake it well, it blends into a rich creamy texture together. Very unique!
Highly recommend!

Their cupcake and cookies are very yummy. Decorations are very nice and icing isn’t too sweet. Love it!