Quicklycanada Kensington

We headed here for a quick bite before a show at the jubilee. It’s brightly decorated with a neat painting of the calgary core. The food was great. The «coffin toast» is a must have. The toast is buttered and toasted to perfection and filled with creamy soup. Great place for a bubble tea or late night snack.

I had lunch here– pork with rice and a side order of «taro rolls.» About $ 17 all in but that’s only part of the story because even for a big eater like me, this was FAR too much food for one person. Value is fantastic– incredibly. I’ve had this pork dish at other Taiwanese places, most recently near Bay and Gerrard in Toronto, and it’s always more of a snack than a meal and at least from my limited personal experience is made with very seasoned, savoury ground pork. Quickly’s has all the flavour but is made with MINCED pork, like what you’d get on a good taco, and the texture is succulent– total winner here and the portion is massive, easily enough to call it lunch for the average person. The reason I’m not giving my typical 5 star review is that while the rolls were an incredible deal– $ 4 for three big old-​school Chinese restaurant sized ones stuffed with taro and ground pork– they were fried too long and just the edible size of burnt. Not bad, but there’s room for improvement. No music («it’s broken») and an almost empty restaurant (it was early) don’t make for a pleasant ambience but I’ll overlook that for some really good, really cheap Taiwanese-​Singaporean menu.

Although the view here can not compare to the one in Chinatown, I still like this one than Chinatown. The location is good, It’s a quiet and relax place inside a busy area, and it’s quite more convenient than Chinatown-​very close to sunnyside station. The bubble tea tastes very good, I dare it’s better than ocup. Food’s so delicious with variety choices, and not very expensive.

I’m not a fan of their slush drinks, and the staff at their Pacific Place location are horrible and so unpleasant, but their taro milk tea is delicious and the best one I’ve had so far.

It’s good to have an Asian style bubble tea place in kensington! Compare to the Chinatown location, this is much better, less people, less waiting (one time I waited for a drink for 20 min in Chinatown one!!!)
But I just feel like the staffs randomly put the sugar to the drink coz I usually order drinks with no sugar or ¼ but in here sometimes just too sweet even I ordered ¼.

I had much higher hopes for this location. I can say though that this location is much faster than the one in china town.
I hit up this location right after our visit to pie cloud. There were still several people inside, and a young child running in and out of the door non stop throughout the visit… I think it was one of the workers children. He kept me quite on edge as he would make loud noises each time he went through.
That aside though… The menu looks almost the exact same as their other location. Albeit it looked alot prettier and there seemed to be more food choices.
I opted to order the regular sized hot lavender milk tea ($ 5) with no additions of pearls or jelly. The price I paid for my drink was a total rip off… Totally not worth it. I can say though that the drink did come out quite «quickly»… Only took five minutes! Plus an additional three minutes of them trying to one handedly put on the lid… And play with their cellphone at the same time.
Be warned though… I didn’t see them measuring the temperature of the drink… It was steaming hot when I got it. Was not able to drink it for at least fifteen minutes.
When I was able to drink it though, I was much disappointed as there were tons of tea leaves/​stems remaining in the drink. I guess they neglected to strain it? Plus the tea was WAY too strong. It left a very bitter after taste. Sadly, I was not able to finish the drink at all… Only got through about a quarter of it before giving up.
Probably not going to visit again in the near future for drinks, I have yet to give their food a try. The employees seem to enjoy the food enough as you can see them eating it as you’re ordering :) total ick.

Quickly is a big international bubbletea chain restaurant. Other locations in Calgary includes the one in Chinatown and the T&T in the NE. This Kensington location is much nicer and has way better service.
Great for bubbleteas where tea flavor is masked. Ordered green apple and green tea and it was very bitter. Would recommend shaved ice, blended iced smoothie options, etc.
Great alternative in Kensington from all the other regular coffee and tea shops