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April 23 Cafe is a charming spot with a lovely atmosphere, featuring a beautiful flower fridge and floral arrangement classes. While the vibe is pleasant, the reviews suggest that the cafe may not be the best option for bubble tea and desserts. The cafe's taro fresh milk drink was a disappointment, as it lacked flavor and texture, with some reviewers finding it too bland. The milk used was good, but the overall experience was not worth the price. The cafe's drink menu has a decent variety, but the drinks themselves are mediocre and pricy. However, some reviewers did appreciate the innovative and beautifully presented drinks, which are not typical of traditional bubble tea. Overall, April 23 Cafe may not be the top choice for bubble tea enthusiasts, but it has its unique charms.
Huge fan of the brown sugar bubble milk tea but unfortunately their store hours are inconsistent. They pretty much open when they feel like it and not exactly at 10a.m like the website says.
Disclaimer: my review is only for their taro fresh milk drink, I've never tried anything else here.The vibe is cute and they have really gorgeous flowers in their flower fridge and they seem to have floral arrangement classes in the back so maybe their thing is not the bbt & dessert counter in the front so don't come here for the bbt & come for the flowers ? Maybe their other bbt is totally fine but I was very displeased with my taro milk drink. This is one of my fav things to order and really not that hard to make.The taro milk uses fresh taro, which is exactly what I was looking for HOWEVER their taro paste is not flavoured at all. This drink is usually supposed to use slightly sweetened taro paste, but I feel like this place doesn't actually know how to make this and literally just cooked the taro in water and mashed it. It will taste like if you mashed up potatoes and then put it in the milk...that same texture. Their taro also had almost no taro flavour in itself either so in the end when I mixed it all up I was just drinking what tastes like just milk. The milk they used was good - creamy and delicious, but why did I just pay $8 for a cup of milk + a little bit of mashed taro?Oh also, they have no public bathrooms, but there is space for you to sit indoors. I've never been to a cafe with seating that has no bathrooms.
We came here on a Sunday afternoon and were excited to try their desserts, however they did not have anything but drinks available. We were several hours away from closing so was strange that they didn't have anything left, but that was a little disappointing honestly. Their drink menu is decent and had a good variety of things to try. I settled on a fruit tea and it wasn't too bad, however it was a little pricy and overall was just mediocre as it wasn't too memorable or flavored strongly so it felt watered down. Overall, there are several bubble tea shops around Newbury - I wouldn't recommend this one, especially if you're only looking for a drink as it wasn't anything spectacular.