Tea shops might be the new coffeehouses. Cafes serving Asian specialty teas have bubbled up in the past year across Baton Rouge boasting boba — small pearls of sweet, chewy tapioca added to a drink.

I remember the first time I had bubble/boba tea. Those tapioca balls tasted as good as the first time my lips met a piss-quality brewski, which is to say that it was a baaddd experience. But now, I ...

Bear’s Lair Tavern is now open, after closing this summer when the Red Door Group took over. The redesigned, counter-service space most notably now features a menu by chef David Lawrence (1300 on ...

A nationwide boba shortage has rippled into Sacramento’s bubble tea shops, threatening to deny them the tapioca pearls customers crave as summer nears. Shipping delays and pileups at West and East ...