Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. Starbucks is ...

For the summer, Starbucks is serving up its own take on bubble tea drinks. The coffee chain is now offering three new Starbucks Refreshers beverages with raspberry-flavored "pearls" at the bottom of ...

Starbucks is set to roll out its own version of boba in May, CEO Laxman Narasimhan said Tuesday. "We are launching our first texture innovation, Pearls," he said. Some Starbucks baristas have posted ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Boba transforms any kind of cold drink into edible entertainment. You can find these popping bits of chewy mystery in anything from iced ...

Starbucks has rolled out a line of boba-inspired Refresher drinks in the US. The blue beverages all include raspberry-flavored popping pearls and its new Summer-Berry Refreshers mixture. The drinks ...

Starbucks is bursting plenty of bubbles this summer — but in a distinctly delicious way. On May 7, Starbucks dropped its summer menu and its latest beverage innovation: what the brand is calling ...

Last May, Starbucks teased a “texture innovation.” The reveal? Raspberry-flavored popping pearls — not quite boba, but close — dropped into a trio of bright-pink Refreshers. A riff on classic bubble ...