Tapioca Express

Closed down! Not here for long. Drinks were good, but service was always slow and drinks were inconsistent.

Tap-​Ex CLOSED DOWN.
You will be missed but never forgotten.
I guess a new hot dog place is coming into that spot now. Kinda excited for that!

I think I prefer Lollicup better or any milk tea place in South Sac. However, they do have punch cards which is nice and several locations all over Sac.

Great boba joint in a great complex! It’s next door to arigato sushi, blast pizza, and chipotle. Perfect place to get a boba drink after dinner!
Nice and clean inside with couple televisions. Staff seemed friendly… Has your boba selection to your milk tea to your coffee! Also they have your snacks such as popcorn chicken to your feel fried fish ball!
Plenty of Seats for couples or larger groups… Bumps good music… Was bumping montell Jordan from the 90’s (90’s hip hop) and love those tunes!
Unfortunately I saw a sign on the front door saying they will be permanently closed in July, which stinks because it’s a great boba joint in a good area! It also brings more Asians to the area and it’s sad it’s closing!

Drinks are great and these guys are hella friendly. No reason to not stop in on a hot day.

They sure do have a wonderful selection. You will receive a punch card to fill in order to earn a free drink. A good way to make you come back and try the assortment.

upon coming in it was slow. all of a sudden theres a lot of people behind us. it was big inside with lots of tables too. they even had a sofa for people to lounge at and enjoy their drinks. its a more roomy place for large parties to come in here and just relax and sip away on some boba. it was very clean and bright inside, great to read a book inside as well.
we all checked in and took advantage of the 2 dollar off deal for 2 drinks. we each teamed up and took advantage of their check in special. my friends got the thai tea with boba, latte snow with boba, and a earl grey tea with egg pudding, and jasmine green with boba.
the menu selection was pretty big. i wanted to get the durian but not all locations carry it. so here i was kind of disappointed. my friends say the earl grey tea with egg pudding wasn’t the best. she end up slurping all of it since she doesn’t like wasting food.
my friend threw away the latte snow with boba since it was a mess. what i mean by a mess, it was leaking everywhere on the table and got all sticky. i asked him how it taste and he say it was wasn’t the best.
the jasmine green with boba which my other friend got was good. it can’t go bad when its just tea with boba right…
overall we all had a great experience in here. they have wifi and was friendly with giving out the password for the guest wifi. it was fast and helped boost our internet speed to search up the next Unilocal location we were going to hit up. hope this helps and thanks for reading!

I usually Unilocal first before I try any places. Saw the low ratings but I wanted to give it a try anyway and boy was I disappointed.
The establishment was pretty much empty when we walked in. They were just finishing the order for a couple ahead of us. I thought to myself this is not a good sign for a Saturday evening.
watermelon juice = good and refreshing
boba = mushy and bland which considering that they have been opened for at least a year now, they should figure out how to make good boba
fried tofu = quite disappointing and we literally got about 10 – 11 small pieces. I guess it doesn’t matter too much about the quantify since it wasn’t that good to begin with
Jasmine green tea = good and taste similar to ones that I’ve tried at other tapioca express locations
Service was ok and I didn’t have negative experience that others have described.
I really hope that listen to their customers and make changes because with the growing numbers of boba establishments, you gotta be good to stay in business.

Poor service and OVER PRICED for a crush ice and flavored powder that is called a snow bubble, because that’s exactly what your getting. It is NOT fresh fruit, so why the hefty price?!
The girl seems like she hated her job and just slide the drink across the country at me as if I had a disease. No thank you and wasn’t offered a frequent buyers card.
My snow bubble came with tiny shrunken tapioca that is so small it’s almost a chocking hazard drinking it thru a straw.
On a previous visit they were out of Taro and it was there Grand Opening week.
They offer a groupon but it’s not much of a savings.
Anytime I have ever came here it’s dead and I’m the only one there, time to start offering some special or coupons for your over priced flavored ice.
Won’t be going back anytime soon.

Coming from the Bay Area where I had tapioca express on a regular basis, I was really excited to see one coming to Roseville. Unfortunately, this location has disappointed me on numerous occasions.
I never like to give bad reviews based on a one time thing, so I gave this location a couple of tries, and both times I have left disappointed and wishing that I had gone somewhere else. My biggest compliant is the fact that their drinks drip everywhere. They really need to learn how to put lids on without getting the drink all over the edge of the cup. On both occasions that I have ordered snow bubbles, my drink is practically overflowing. Some people would be excited to have their drink filled to the brim, but when you get to your car and thai tea starts dripping out from under the lid all over your seats and floor, you are not so excited. If you do come here, make sure you get lots of napkins if you are getting a snow.

There’s definitely room for improvement at this location, but it doesn’t deserve the harsh reviews, goodness sake! I’ll come back just to get my hands on that fresh fruit juice. Watermelon tastes so delicious, like summer in a cup. Other chains, my favorite included, don’t quite get that fresh taste right like Tapioca Express.
However, there are two issues here. Professionalism of the staff, for one. The kid who took my order is probably new, or something. I had to repeat myself a lot and he didn’t seem to understand I was asking about sizes of Boba, not sizes of the drink itself, but he eventually got it. Then, he didn’t help his case by snacking on something AT THE REGISTER. Huge no no!!! Don’t do it! Also, there have been times where my drink is a weird temperature. Yesterday for instance, it was still warm on top from the Boba pearls, yet icy cold in the middle. This goes away if you’re patient enough to wait, but it’s not something I’ve ever run into at any other Bubble Tea joint. Not sure what’s going on during prep…
Second bone to pick is that they offer a bunch of different food items, but you wouldn’t catch on to this by just reading the main menu. Banh Mi and wraps are offered, but I wouldn’t have known that if I hadn’t seen the bright LED digital advertisement screen. Call me old fashioned, but while it’s great to have visual aids, they need to put all food items on the board. The LED screen is behind a table where people were sitting, and customers might not see it.
All in all, I will come back because I like the quality taste, and to give more chances for the establishment to mend these easily handled issues.

Had a Groupon 4 $ 5.00 for $ 14.00 for Tapioca Express Roseville location and since we were in the area mind as well to used Groupon to get large combination yoghurt frost and taste like Greek yogurt with fresh dice fruits.
Some lady behind me snatch my order and give it to her son, before I can claimed it :(
They run out stamp card :(
Check in with Unilocal $ 2.00 off 2 drinks

Good experience!
Not sure how I missed this Tapioca Express in Roseville but I was told that they’ve been in this location since June 2014. I must’ve been hiding in a cave that time but, anyway, I’m glad that I no longer have to drive to Natomas to get a snow bubble fix. First time here and ordered the chocolate snow bubble w/​boba. Then came back again two hours later to try the mango snow bubble w/​boba. The drinks were tasty and refreshing. Daughter and I enjoyed both drinks. They put a lot of boba in their drinks. The store is clean and nice and bright inside. Staff was nice and friendly and I had a positive experience here on my first visit. The drinks were made quickly even though there were a lot of patrons inside. Room capacity is 68 so this location is a nice size. Got my Loyalty Card… after 10 purchases, 11^th drink is free.
They are located on the side of AT&T, Arigato Sushi, and next to Chipotle across The Galleria mall, on the same block as Olive Garden. Private parking lot. Recommend!

Customer service is great!
But thai milk tea doesn’t right :((((
Taste like plain black tea. Over sweetened. And they use evaporated milk! Hah?!

Okay! Back for another review. What happened to the customer service here? Service is suppose to be a plus! Before when it opened I’ve gotten really good service but now when I would go with my friend. Or my mom. It’s just crazy. What’s with the attitude??? Lol. Attitude is everything! I’ll still go here for the drinks but like fix your attitudes. Only like 2 people I really like here that are super friendly!
Oh. And if a drink like for example a snow or whatever is overflowing can you please clean it up then hand it to us? Presentation is also key! Can’t believe this girl was like «the napkins are over there» with an attitude towards my friend when she went and got her snow. I had this experience multiple times.
For the chi chi fries, what happened to the original fries you guys used? :/​those fries are so much better than the fries you guys have now! It’s like McDonald fries now): I mean I’ll still get it but I was just super disappointed that they changed the fries!

Your employee Rachel seriously need an attitude check. I came in yesterday to purchase two milk tea, she gave me only one stamp. I have been here multiple times and each time I get one stamp for each drink. I explain to her that should should have gave me two stamps, she replied with an attitude saying she did not make the rules, and told me to talk to the manager. I told her on the back of the card it says one stamp per drink and they should honor that. She just shrug her shoulder and said, «Again, I did not make the rules.»
If I was told that the rule changed with a sincere apology maybe I would have not feel so angry. but the attitude? come on, are you serious.
You are pissing off many customers who are loyal customers that come in with your reward card. If you are gonna go around and change rules then maybe you should print out new cards. Your card still states one stamp per drink!
I asked what if I purchase the drinks separately, would she stamp it twice then. She said «yah sure you can do that.» What a waste of time.
As a local business owner here in Rocklin, I have to say your service is unbelievably BAD! and I feel ashamed for you.

Ive been here now maybe.4 or 5 times. I’m not really understanding why these peeps gettin’ so much heat. I mean, if you’re gonna knock on this place, it’d be for it being slightly more expensive than other boba spots.
Every time I’ve been here the workers greeted me on my way in. I dig how clean it always is, and theyre usually playing some pleasant music with beat. Most recently I ordered a hazelnut milk tea and some spicy crispy chicken.
The hazelnut was actually really flavorful, and I enjoyed the caramel that was all up in there. The crispy chicken was actually legit spicy! I was kinda surprised, but hey it was delicious as heck. Only bad thing was the burps that came a few hours later ha.
For me it’s always been consistent, friendly service, and good menu items that’s kept me comin’.

Wow… a bubble tea place with NO BOBA READY?! Seriously? 15 minute wait? AND you’re too busy negotiating with your co-​worker about taking your break?
Okay, I came here because we were in the area and I like to try bubble tea in new places… get a feel for where the good places are to settle future cravings. It’s a warm Tuesday afternoon. Only one other customer is here. Apparently we’re both waiting for the boba to cook.
With that in mind, I hope you can understand my disbelief in how a boba place has no boba. If they were completely swamped with customers, I can understand and sympathize. Not the end of the world, but enough to put me off this place and tell others that it might be hit or miss.

This location just opened about 4 weeks ago across from the Galleria Mall. I came in on a Saturday around 5 p.m. and was easily able to find parking in front of the shop.
This is my first time at a Tapioca Express location, but I decided to come here because the Lollicup location in Roseville does not carry fresh fruit juices (even though locations in Sac do). I called ahead of time to make sure they carry fresh fruit juices here and sure enough they do.
I ordered the watermelon juice with boba and it was tasty. They also carry fresh honeydew, grapefruit, and papaya juices as well. In addition to this, there are even additional fresh fruit options if you get the snow bubble, tea slush, flavored milk, yogurt frost, shaved ice, frosti milk, or icy. Cool!
I was also pleased that there were several savory vegetarian items on the menu (but not labeled as such). These include fried tofu, fried string beans, tofu rice, and fresh spring rolls (ask for fresh or fried tofu as a substitute instead of shrimp).
I’ll be back.

Finally, a Tapioca Express in Roseville! Is this seriously a dream?! Hello Tapex, goodbye Lollicup! I was honestly so bumed out that I couldn’t be there the day it opened. I’m from the Bay Area and we have Tapex in like every block, It has been my favorite boba tea shop since I was 8 and has been continuing on with a boba obsession. Since I’ve moved to Roseville, Lollicup was the only exception, sadly. but what an upgrade! The store is so clean and mellow, the drinks taste just like any other Tapex. The employes are too nice! yet I do suggest more employes in the afternoon since it gets pretty busy around! and what a smart move to open one down the street from the galleria! no more driving to lollicup!
i’ll be dropping by 5 days a week or so! –Your truest bobaholic