Black Pearl Tea House – Closed

At some point, it became challenging if not impossible to keep all of the area’s different boba tea shops straight, given that many have similar names and few have unique menu items. Black Pearl Tea House figured this out after pivoting from its prior name (TocoToco) and management, adopting a memorable identity and marketing something we hadn’t seen anywhere else: a boba flight, giving guests the opportunity to try four different types of bubble tea from 16 possible choices, all for a single price of $14.

You could choose from 14 different teas, each assembled as a complete but miniaturized version of the original – super cool, limited only by the reality of portion sizes. If you wanted the same quantity of liquid in a single flavor, you would pay half as much for a standard drink; the extra cost here was for the added labor and glassware required to assemble four little cups rather than one.