Green Island frozen yogurt & tea bar

Not bad. Not the best but not bad.

This review is for the avocado smoothie only. Why? Because I’ve been there five times and that’s all I’ve had. But why fix a good thing if it’s not broken?
The avocado smoothie is so creamy with a hint of sweetness, and it’s perfect for lunch on a hot day when I don’t feel like having a heavy lunch. A large smoothie is $ 4.71. They have a punch card and every tenth drink is free.
Green Island is tucked into a little strip mall. There’s usually plenty of parking right in front of the store. It’s a pretty popular place and there’s only two blenders, so there can be a bit of a wait sometimes. There’s trendy couches and tables and a bar for waiting.
The employees are so friendly, and the girl at the register recognizes me and my drink every time I come in which I appreciate. They also serve sushi, boba tea, and self-​serve frozen yogurt. Someday I’ll branch out and try something else. But today is not that day. Time for another avocado smoothie!

I love boba tea, and they have the best taro milk tea and taro soft serve ice cream as well. They also have a rewards card, so I have a free one coming the next time I go in! Everyone is very friendly and they make your request to perfection. I highly recommend the taro milk tea, it is delicious!

Green Island is a haven in a sea of averageness.
The staff is super chill. The best girls and guys I have ever had serve me! They are hilarious And aside from the obvious amazing menu, they are what I look forward to.
Their milk teas are to DIE for. Light, never too sweet, and chock full of fresh boba. The jasmine, lavender, coconut, and taro are my go-​to flavors.
I haven’t had the pleasure of much else on the menu yet, but every time I go there is a large variety of people ordering different things. And they look happy! I love going, and soon plan to try as much as I can!
Their atmosphere is bright, clean. Nice. The staff also like to play 90’s jams. Total plus.

Smoothies with Boba will satisfy your Boba craving and the Brick Toast with the sweet butter coconut sauce is a must.
4 Star = smoothies and food are fresh but not 5 star quality and service is sometimes slow if you are in a rush.
I have ordered the avocado and the strawberry banana smoothies from here, both with those strange Boba tapioca balls that hit the back of your throat when slurping through your straw. I have become addicted to Boba and this place satisfies my fix. One recommendation if you are ordering your smoothie with Boba, don’t request the foam cup. Instead, request the plastic cup because the Boba balls will freeze in the smoothie and make it hard to slurp up the straw.
I have also ordered the Brick Toast with the sweet butter coconut sauce drizzled on top. Tasted very similar to a cinamon bun with icing that has a hint of coconut in the flavor. The Brick Toast will be hot and will be hard to resist eating in less than 10 seconds.

Love It!
Discovered this place about 10 days ago and have managed to drop in 5 times. I am addicted to the House Fruit Iced Tea without sugar. I drink unsweetened tea and though this has some type of fruit syrup it is not overly sweet. Love watching the ‘bartender’ mix her magic. This place is busy and she flies thru the orders. If I was in Brandon more often I would go everyday. It’s that good.

I love this place!!! It’s a must that I come every time I come to Tampa. Popping boba is my favorite! The smoothies and teas are simply amazing! The cost isn’t too expensive and everything is always fresh. The staff is fast and friendly. This is a cute place to chat or just hop in for a treat.

Best boba tea on the east coast. Hands down. Tried most boba tea shops in my travels and this is the only one I keep craving. House fruit tea and rose milk tea and the best, ask them to go light on the sweetener though.

Very friendly service and GREAT atmosphere! I meet up with some old friends here from time to time, and thought it was about time I wrote a review… The food is very delicious, but I especially love their boba tea! I usually get the chocolate milk boba tea and it’s perfect! My friends like the green tea or the watermelon boba tea. I don’t really eat sushi that much but my friends love it. I’ve tried their asian salad um… thing, and it was alright but I wish the dressing tasted better, tbh. It really had an off taste and strange texture. I couldn’t really find anything on the menu that I like, food-​wise. In my opinion, it’s a great place to go if you only want to meet friends for tea and aren’t really that hungry.
This place will definitely make you want to go back again and again! They are a little expensive for my budget, which is why I don’t go more often. Could have been rated 5 stars, except they have a really limited menu selection, and if you’ve read my other reviews then you’ll know I’m more into Italian food. I wish they’d offer pizza or some type of bread on their menu maybe? But for what it is, it’s great. My friends love their sushi, and it looked great, but I just can’t bring myself to eat seafood, lol.

Friendly staff, tasty treats, atmosphere is pleasant! I had the matcha Boba smoothie and papaya boba smoothie the next day, very addictive stuff!!!

Fantastic black tea! Their teas have a lot of flavor (I.e. Mango, Passion Fruit etc) but still tastes like tea! Not a big fan of milk teas in general but had the taro and was hooked! Highly recommended.

Last time coming here… We ordered six smoothies, five with boba. The little girl with short black hair wrote boba on the two green tea smoothies but she forgot to put the boba in the cup. So I took both smoothies back and told them that it has no boba in it. I show them by stirring it with a straw and NOTHING!!! No boba. The little girl still didn’t believe me so she went and got a spoon to stirred it up. Still no boba… Did she apologized? No!!! She was perceiving me as a liar. By doing this … It’s very demeaning!!! Made me feel very uncomfortable. So I cancelled the rest of my order and just payed for the 6 smoothies… sorry but she just lost some customers.

Really enjoyed my trip to Green Island. I was craving boba tea (I’m currently in the middle of a boba tea obsession as you can see from past reviews), so I did a quick Unilocal search which lead me to Green Island. I also really wanted my mom and brother to try boba tea for the first time. I ordered a large taro smoothie with boba. I also ordered a small taro smoothie with boba for my brother and a small coconut smoothie with boba for my mom. We all really liked our drinks. The taro flavor was great, and the smoothie was perfectly blended. I tried my mom’s coconut and didn’t like the flavor at all. She liked it though.
I will absolutely be back the next time I’m in the Tampa area!

I love this place, there’s so much to choose from however it is a little pricey.
The drinks are amazing, the food is equally as good and if you have the chance to try their shaved ice… DO IT!

Very good smoothies. I liked all the fresh fruit options, although it should be pointed out that they still have powdered flavoring in addition to a small amount of fresh fruit (or at least that’s the case with the kiwi smoothie). I also like all the jelly options.

Wish there was one in St Pete! This place has wonderful froyo.
I got the Taro and Tart mixed with some fruit, mochi, and lychee boba and it was heavenly!!! They have a wide selection of smoothies and milk teas to choose from. I got the iced coffee with boba, and studied there for a couple hours with my friend and they didn’t mind at all. It’s a nice, clean, friendly place! Really busy during lunch time though. Want to try more flavors of their drinks and their food next time! :)

I used to live about a 20 minute drive from this place and I miss it terribly. My family and I used to frequent it, often going out of our way just to go here, often tying it into a visit with the nearby MD Oriental. Their smoothies are delicious (especially the mango and lychee slushes!), the boba is perfectly chewy, and my go to black milk tea is pretty good, though a bit on the sweet side (none of the powdery taste you get with mediocre milk tea though). I also love the fro yo here, it’s my favorite anywhere as I prefer tart flavors over the sweet, and they have a large variety of the tart flavors, as well as really fresh fruit toppings. The seating is cute, comfortable and modern. There is free wifi available. The little stamp card lets you get a small drink or froyo for free after 9 or 10 purchases (I forget how many). I also enjoy the brick milk toast with coconut. My dad really likes the beef bowl and he’s a harsh critic (culinary instructor background…). I can’t attest to that one personally as a vegetarian. This place was one of my first introductions to froyo and is the standard to which I compare everywhere else. It’s just the right texture– super creamy! The only sad thing is that some of the flavors rotate, including my favorite– the pomegranate.

Friendly staff and great drinks!
Green Island has been around for quite some time now and they’ve been able to keep the customers coming back. Why? Most likely because of the quality of their drinks. Fresh, flavorful and made to order.
Not only does Green Island offer boba drinks but they also have 4 frozen yogurt stations which means 8 flavors. One of the only frozen yogurt polar that offers Asian flavors– taro.
Green Island also offers a variety of food items such as sushi, simple rice dish and toast.
Overall, I really enjoyed my boba drinks as well as the frozen yogurt dessert. A definite must try if you’re in the area.

Previously I had a very bad customer service experience at Green Island and swore that I would never go back and managed to not do so for almost 8 months. Yesterday one of my friends came from out of town and really wanted to go… so I cracked under pressure and decided to join her. Im glad I did because the staff working last night was much more friendly, helpful and patient. Aside from that, there is no question about it this place has the best tasting jasmine milk tea I’ve ever had. Most places have very watered down taste to it but at Green Island there is a rich creamy and milky taste – which I LOVE. I highly recommend it. :) My friend tried the honeydew milk tea and it also tasted pretty good. Most of all I like the texture of their boba which is soft and chewy.
There are 3 things that are important to me with boba places:
1. the taste of their milk teas
2. the consistency of their boba
3. the customer service experience
For this place I would give a ⁵⁄₅ for the first 2 and ³⁄₅ for the last one… which is much improved from my past experience at Green Island.

I moved to the area about a year ago from Hawai’i and was beyond excited when I found this place. They have a bit of everything: boba tea, self-​serve yogurt, sushi, smoothies, teriyaki bowls and even shave ice with all the fixings. The sushi is smaller, grocery store size portions but still delicious and fresh.

Best boba tea anywhere, as good as it gets for drinks.
Love their food, the eel dish is wonderful and they use sticky sushi like rice for sides, yum. Menu is limited but excellent Asian choices.
Staff friendly, fast and patient. This place gets busy, for good reason. Various seating options, couch, tables inside and out.
You can snack on cold yogurt with toppings or eat a hot meal.
In a strip mall where parking can be a challenge. The boss told me I can call my order ahead, once I had to wait for more bubba to be cooked but well worth it.
I have added this to my route as I pass thru often on I75, easy access just one block from exit.

Good boba! Loved the milk lavender boba (not too sweet)! Service is great, employees are really helpful when ordering and nice.
Do not like that they don’t have non sugary options. Tried to bring my grandma who likes smoothies, but even with no sugar added, the smoothie was VERY sweet for her. Not good if you are monitoring your diet.
Did not try the food but saw some sushi and salads coming out from the kitchen and they looked pretty decent.
I will be back to try more. Maybe the fro-​yo!

Got large passion fruit green tea with boba. Nice size, good amount of sweetness, and very soft and chewy boba. The price breakdown is $ 2.80 for the tea, extra $.80 for large, and extra $.50 for boba. That’s a little cheaper than we have it in California. Also got a teriyaki chicken bowl ($ 6.95). Good sized portions and the chicken was very good! Tea came out within 2 min, and chicken 7 min. Too bad they don’t take American Express.

This place makes me feel bubbly! It’s very hip and the cashiers are awesome! I love getting the coconut boba and it is so flavorful! I try my best not to become a regular here but it doesn’t help because I live so nearby but hey! It’s always there when I need a drink! You guys have got to try this place! Also, they do this card reward program where if you order so many drinks that you get one free! Check it out! You’ll thank me later!

I have been to this café several time and I decided to give them a review. The interior is all green since the name call green island. During the odd hour of 3:30 pm, there is a lot of high school student hang out. Other than drink, they also have sushi, salad, rice bowl, sweet toast.
For the main selection are the drink. They have ice tea, milk tea, smoothies, cold coffee. And they have add on like boba, jelly, and fruit. For the ice tea, I like their Kumquat lemon ice tea and black tea. Today I have the avocado smoothies. I add boba into the smoothies. The boba need to be broil to soft and add the sugar water at the bottom of the smoothies. The avocado flavor was added into shave ice and ground together.
The pricing for the smoothies is average in the Bay Area. The drink is non fat and the calories is approximately 100 to 140 for smoothies.

This is the best place in the Tampa area for boba tea and other teas, in my opinion. I’ve been coming here for maybe 7 years and the drinks/​food are consistently good. Critics may say they use powder to flavor many of their teas but many places do and the places that don’t just don’t taste as good as Green Island.
I recommend the lavender, rose or taro milk teas with boba, if you so desire. I also really like the strawberry green tea or the house fruit tea. Their smoothies are also very popular. They also have brick toast which is a popular item in west coast teahouses as well as other food, such as Japanese beef bowl (highly recommend) and froyo.
Service is always friendly. Its a very clean place with a modern feel, furnished with orange sofas and clear chairs.
There’s an MD Oriental Market, Old Time Pottery and Home Depot in the same plaza. So if you don’t live close, you’ll have a couple reasons to check out Green Island.

Crack.
That is the best way to explain how I feel about the milk teas at this great little place. To be more specific:
Once is too much but never enough.
I pass through the area all the time, unfortunately it is usually too early or too late in the day to actually have one of their milk teas. This past Saturday I made it through town at the PERFECT time.
Like a lot of these boutique «SwEateries» the store is small while being vibrantly colored and exceptionally bright on the inside. Those behind the counter are jovial, helpful, and more than willing to help you find your perfect toothache. Being who I am, and not seeing my flavor on the board, I figured I would at least ask if they had almond (amaretto) before ordering. I am such a lucky bastard.
I went ahead and ordered my Almond Milk Tea with Boba (slightly sweet). I love that they have defined gradations of sweetness. «Slightly Sweet» is one gradation above «Not Sweet» and there are two levels that are more sweet. As I watched the lady make my treat, I noticed that the only powder was the flavoring. Everything else was liquid; this is a first for me.
I watched the lady make the tea and as she handed the finished product to me I know I had a big grin on my face. I tasted the milk tea and was in heaven. The flavors were so vibrant. I could taste the different types of milk they used as well as my almond flavoring. And the boba… so good… so perfectly cooked.
I want another one right now.

I love getting smoothies here! The inside is colorful and cute. They use fresh fruit in their mango, strawberry, pineapple, and kiwi smoothie. My favorite is the taro milk tea with lychee jellies. They also have frozen yogurt with loads and loads of toppings. I can’t visit Tampa without stopping by here!

I’m in love. I’m seriously upset that I don’t live here to have this every week.
Green Islands is located near I-​75 in the same plaza as Hooters, Cherry’s, McDonalds and MD Oriental Mart. The décor is green/​white and feels very fresh and clean.
The are known for their bubble tea and frozen yogurt but they also serve other desserts like brick toast and shaved ice. In addition, they serve salads, rice bowls, and sushi. The menu (for food) is very limited (ex: sushi is only made of spicy tuna or imitation krab). But I will say the food I had was yummy (nom nom nom).
The highlight was the bubble tea though. I wanted everything on the menu but the second I saw the word FRESH kiwi it was game over. Kiwi is one of my favorite fruits so a kiwi smoothie made with real kiwid, well it was a no brainer. They had a house fruit tea which is made of black tea and fresh mango and peach fruit bits that many customers were ordering.
Bottom line: recommend, recommend, recommend!