Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in London

Iceflower tracks 80 stores from 53 boba & drink shops in London. CUPP Bubble Tea grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Whale Tea and Mooboo.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
53
Tracked stores
80
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked boba & drink shops

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. CUPP Bubble Tea and The Whale Tea sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CUPP Bubble Tea logo CUPP Bubble Tea - +19.3%
2 T The Whale Tea logo The Whale Tea - -14.6%
3 M Mooboo - -17.5%
4 C Chatime logo Chatime - -57.4%
  • Heytea
  • Mooboo
  • Ni'mat
  • Liberty Food & Wine
  • CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice
  • Mothership Group
  • EXALT
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

80 tracked store locations in London. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Heytea (5)
  • Mooboo (11)
  • Ni'mat (1)
  • Liberty Food & Wine (1)
  • CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice (2)
  • Mothership Group (1)
  • EXALT (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 M Mooboo 11
  • 2 H Heytea logo Heytea 5
  • 3 C CUPP Bubble Tea logo CUPP Bubble Tea 5
  • 4 T The Whale Tea logo The Whale Tea 3
  • 5 M Mooboo Bubble Tea 3
  • 6 C Chatime logo Chatime 3
  • 7 T Truedan 2
  • 8 C CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice 2
  • 9 M Multea Choice 2
  • 10 X Xing Fu Tang 1
  • 11 H HEYTEA logo HEYTEA 1
  • 12 T T4 Hackney 1
  • 13 G Gonuts Bubble Tea London 1
  • 14 S Sweet Lemon 1
  • 15 P P V Food & Wine 1
  • 16 Y Yi Fang 1
  • 17 W Wuxian Tea 1
  • 18 K Kosher Paradise 1
  • 19 M Meow Tea Moment 1
  • 20 T Tea for U T4 Acton 1
  • 21 M Mooboo Ealing 1
  • 22 G Golden Tea 1
  • 23 D Ding Tea Sutton 1
  • 24 C Chawanjia UK 1
  • 25 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha 1
  • 26 B B & B 1
  • 27 H hydor 1
  • 28 H Happy Lemon logo Happy Lemon 1
  • 29 D Ding Tea logo Ding Tea 1
  • 30 B Bubble Pie 1
  • 31 C Cube Bubble Tea 1
  • 32 N Ni'mat 1
  • 33 L Liberty Food & Wine 1
  • 34 M Mothership Group 1
  • 35 E EXALT logo EXALT 1
  • 36 B Bubble CiTea logo Bubble CiTea 1
  • 37 K Kissaten 1
  • 38 L Lucky Bubble 1
  • 39 L Lucky Tea 1
  • 40 B Bobar 1
  • 41 M Min Tea 1
  • 42 B Boba Tigers 1
  • 43 M Mooboo Chingford 1
  • 44 G Greenwise 1
  • 45 S Square Bubbles Woolwich 1
  • 46 A Ad Foods 1
  • 47 E Evoca Enterprises 1
  • 48 S Sweet Corner 1
  • 49 U UTea 1
  • 50 M Mooboo Crystal Palace 1

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