Gong Cha (Okotoks)
The Okotoks branch of the Gong Cha bubble tea chain, in the Southridge Drive plaza - and for Okotoks, one of the few dessert-and-drinks stops on this map that does not require a drive into Calgary. What it is for Bubble tea, milk teas and fruit series drinks, plus a short snack menu - the croffle and the coconut milk drinks are what reviewers name. As a tea and dessert shop it sits alongside a halal meal rather than replacing one. Somewhere to actually sit Unusually for a bubble tea counter, the room is set up to stay in: plants, board games and UNO cards, and reviewers call it the nicest Gong Cha they have been to. Staff are named repeatedly for going out of their way. Good to know 4.8 across 160 Google reviews. Dine-in, takeout and delivery. Check individual ingredients if you avoid gelatin - toppings vary by drink.