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Bwog got a tip yesterday that Vine, Swish‘s identical twin replacement, lacks the one thing that everyone seemed to like about Swish, may it rest in peace: bubble tea. Fortunately, as our tipster mentioned, 116th Street’s bubble tea franchise is not gone forever, but merely transported two doors down to Ollie’s.
The bubble tea stand occupies a quaint corner, pictured at right, of the ever-frenzied Ollie’s, but we were assured that all the same flavors and weird tapioca balls have all been transported safely and that nothing has changed from Swish’s bubble tea selection. The reason for the move? Simply that Vine and Ollie’s are owned by the same people.
So bubble tea enthusiasts may now go about their days with the consolation that they’ll never have to set foot in Cafe 212, filled to the brim with things that make you fat, for a healthy dose of boba.
-ECS
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@i ate at vine this weekend and had a terrible experience. the portions are VERY small and much more expensive than they were before. the service sucked, too–they brought my friend’s entree 15 minutes after the rest of ours (there were five of us), and neither apologized nor told us it would be a while in the first place. thumbs down!
@Anonymous Does Vine use the same slave labor as Ollie’s? How about the tip-reviewing, screeching, manic servers of Swish?
Why is the pan-Asian cuisine in Morningiside Heights categorically wicked?
@wait... so Ollie’s, Swish/Vine, and Tomo are/were owned by the same people?!
@Yes, The triads.
@ALERT I didn’t believe it when I found it (and alerted Bwog), but the bubble tea menu still SAYS “Caffe Swish” on it…
A Yelp article on the 84th St. Ollie’s had a rumor that the entire franchise is owned by a few Jewish businessmen…???
(They also “apparently” own Artie’s Deli – again, a rumor, but an interesting one at that)
@zhan zhu cafe east’s bubble tea is still soooo much better
@r.i.p. mango chicken Swish must have been bad in a past life, because this Vine reincarnation sucks balls.
@Woo: Oh good, I was feeling really upset about the bubble tea going away. This definitely cheers me up.
@REVIEW! “alerted”
and “same”
credibility is shot w/out copyediting