Ten Ren’s Tea

Thornhill, Canada

3.6

Closed now

20 reviews

Free Wi-Fi

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Telephone:
+1 905-881-8896
Website:
tenrenstea.com
Address:
111 Times Avenue Unit 101, Thornhill, ON, L3T 0A2
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
350 ftValleymede
0.2 miSaddlecreek Drive
0.3 miRed Oak Drive
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepted Cards
Credit, Debit
Good For
Late Night
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
No
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
No
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
No
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 11:00 am – 1:00 am
Closed now
Local time (Thornhill) 10:38 Thursday, 22 May 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:00 am – 1:00 am
Tuesday 11:00 am – 1:00 am
Wednesday 11:00 am – 1:00 am
Thursday 11:00 am – 1:00 am
Friday 11:00 am – 3:00 am
Saturday 11:00 am – 3:00 am
Sunday 11:00 am – 1:00 am

Description

Specialties

Beverage Categories:

+Ice/​Hot Tea/​Milk Tea

+Ice/​Hot Traditional Tea

+Ice/​Hot Fresh Fruit Tea

+Hot Herbal Tea

+Honey Yogurt Juice

+Fruit/​Tea/​Yogurt Slush

+Milk Icee

+Soybean Milk

+Coffee

Tea Meals:

+Rice Meal Combos

+Noodles Meal Combos

+Meal Specials

+Tea Flavored Dishes

+Rice Meals

+Noodles Meals

+Taiwanese Tea Snacks

+Soup

+Desserts/​Ice Cream Waffle/​Brick Toast/​Crushed or

Snow Ice

Specialty Tea (Certified ISO220000, ISO9001,HACCP):

+High Quality Traditional Loose Tea/​Whole Leave Tea Bags

+Fruit Tea/​Whole Leave Tea Bags

+Various Tea Extract

+Tea Snacks

+Tea Gift Sets

+Hand-​crafted Tea Wares

+Tea Accessories

+Ginseng & Other Ginseng Products

History

Established in 1953.

«Share Moments, Share Tea» — Navigate the Tea Fashion with Ten Ren’s Tea!

Ten Ren’s Tea is the largest and best-​known tea manufacturer/​retailer in the Far East with tea plantations. With more than 2000 stores in Asia Pacific and North America, we specialize in specialty tea and many tea products.

Owned and operated by the third generation of tea producers, Ten Ren’s Tea maintains the tradition of offering some of the best quality tea to tea drinkers. Our dedication in the fine art of enjoying tea as well as making it available has helped us to expand not only in Toronto but worldwide.

Moreover, Ten Ren’s Tea strives to deliver new life to traditional tea, through the use of high quality tea and exquisite tea wares. At Ten Ren’s Tea, we insist on using Ten Ren’s premium tea to create unique tea drinks, cuisines, and snacks. It allows you to enjoy tea in a different way and to incorporate tea within your life for improved health.

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20 reviews of Ten Ren’s Tea

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Place rating: 2
Toronto, Canada
So we are a group of Cantonese customers, and the waiter came to our table speaking English for us. We took the order in English and we had a question that he didn’t know, so he had to ask his manager. We asked for no wasabi on our Japanese balls, but it came out with wasabi sauce. We asked to change it. He didn’t apologize and he just took it back. We heard that he asked his manager in Cantonese, that’s why we talked to him in Cantonese later, but he insisted speaking in English, and he told us he didn’t speak Chinese at all. We don’t mind communicating in English but we find this tall waiter with the glasses very unfriendly and is unwilling to interact with us. Everything is good but the service, meh.
Place rating: 4
Markham, Canada
Never thought I would have dinner at Ten Ren’s but I was told thier dinner combo for $ 16.99 is good value and taste. good so I thought I would give it a try.
You can choose which appetizer, main, dessert and drink from the list. I got the salad and wonton soup as appetizer. Tofu with mushroom plus fried pork chop as main with qhite rice. Finally I got egg pudding as dessert and black milk tea as drink. All this for $ 16.99.
Everything tasted great. Service was really fast even though it was super busy on Friday night.
Place rating: 3
Markham, Canada
The service here for starters is non existent. They are courteous but every time I’m here I don’t think much of the service. They aren’t rude or anything, they are just hard to find.
The food is okay. There’s nothing much too special but I do enjoy the pur eh beef noodles :) the broth is good and the noodles are a nice texture.
The bubble tea is of course, really good. :) so I’d say go for the bubble tea! The hot taro milk tea is really really good!!!
The place is fairly spacious and clean so it’s a nice place to just sit with friends and chat over some tea.
Place rating: 4
Toronto, Canada
I didn’t know Ten Ren also operates restaurants until I stumbled upon it on Unilocal,so I decided to give it a try.
Environment:
So the restaurant is located at a plaza that’s opposite of First Markham Place. I made the mistake of skimming through Google Map and drove right into FMP until I realized my mistake. The plaza Ten Ren is in is not the most recognizable, and the entrance is actually at a side road, even though it borders HWY 7.
The interior of the restaurant is nicely renovated, but the tables are a little too disburse in my opinion, which makes the place seem cold. There is a Ten Ren retail tea shop sharing the same space.
Food:
I noticed that the prices here are on the more expensive side for casual Taiwanese style restaurant. The bubble teas can cost around $ 6 – 7. They have combo deals for lunch and dinner, but I find those to be a little pricy as well. The items do get below $ 10 once you flip to the end of the menu, however.
I ordered the waffle and the Wuxi ribs with noodles. The waffles were pretty good. I like the presentation, good for photos. I do which they have syrup for the waffles. The Wuxi ribs weren’t authentic. They were still nice and tender, but it doesn’t have the authentic sweet and sour taste.
Service:
The restaurant was under staffed when I was there. It was difficult to find the server sometimes. They don’t always speak Mandarin and/​or Cantonese either.
I probably won’t be making another visit. The food didn’t wow me too much and I think it’s a little over priced.
Place rating: 4
Toronto, Canada
Working close to Ten Ren’s it is my go to for their take out bento boxes.
I usually order the fried spiced chicken, but some of the other choices include: King’s Tea Pork Ribs, Green Tea Ginseng Chicken, Fish Fillet, Deep Fried Pork Cutlet, and Tea Flavoured Sausages.
For $ 9.49, you can choose from a main course with rice, three side dishes, and milk black tea with tapioca.
My co-​workers have mentioned that something in the fried chicken makes them burp, but I have never encountered this problem.
If you order take out, there is a 10% off discount (excluding the bento).
Overall, I really enjoy the selection of drinks and dishes that they have available.
Place rating: 4
Roxboro, Canada
It’s a large menu like so many places, but came here with a couple of local to knew exactly what to take and needless to say I wasn’t disppointed. The portions are very decent and the prices too. There’s a Tea Shop just on the other side of the restaurant it was quite packed and the service was good. For the sector it’s a good place.
Place rating: 2
Toronto, Canada
The environment is traditional Chinese tea shop look. I was recommended matcha ice team. It’s soft serve ice cream, not too sweet, strong motcha flavor and creamy. A little bit disappointed about the order not exactly same as the small ad poster which on your table. The service is ok~
Place rating: 5
Toronto, Canada
I have received a great service from Fang tonight! Thanks to Fang and his manager Allan for exchanging the tea. I truly enjoy the 913 King Tea! :)
Place rating: 4
San Jose, CA
A lot of options for drinks. I tried taro and coconut slush with green tea ice cream on top and my husband got a bowl of beef noodles. Both were pretty good. The service was a little slow since there were so many people (although it was almost midnight on a Friday night).
Would definitely go back to try more drinks.
Place rating: 3
Markham, Canada
This place has really degraded. I used to come here a fair amount and I was back yesterday for the first time since mid last year. I ordered the Pu Erh beef noodles set: it comes with a drink, salad, and dessert. The noodles came with a little glass of tea you’re supposed to add yourself, but I found that it did little for taste since the flavour of the little mountain of pickled radish (?) they added overwhelmed everything. They must have changed recipes because it wasn’t as good as before. The flavour of the soup had too much spice and overall resulted in a strong, sour taste of MSG. In terms of the meat and noodles, I also noticed they’ve cut back on portions compared to before.
To top off the already questionable dish, I found a piece of plastic packaging in the bottom of my soup when I was almost done. Gross. We alerted a server and they apologized and offered to make a new one but we declined as I was already pretty much finished eating. To subsidize, they gave us a 10% discount and an extra dessert serving.
Normally I would give 2 or less stars when I find shit in my food, but their service and handling of the matter was alright. Another star because their hot taro milk tea is still as good as ever. For dessert, I chose the Matcha Lychee Pudding which was tasty. I won’t order food from here again though.
Place rating: 5
Toronto, Canada
The food has always been consistently delicious and fresh, which is why this is one of my favourite locations and go-​to places whenever I’m craving bubble tea and crispy creamy chicken noodle soup! The other locations just don’t do it for me like this one does — whether it’s the food that is lacking at other locations or the crowd.
Place rating: 3
Markham, Canada
I always seemed to enjoy this place for hangout and bbts
However, i was there for lunch yesterday and the food did disappoint…
Hopefully,
just temporarily and tenren will change their daily lunch menus again because i dont remember ever having such awful food the last time i was there for lunch, dinner or snacks…
Me.and my friend both order the daily lunch specials at $ 10.99 each which is always a great deal as it.comes.with a full drink… soup. Salad (albeit small) and small set of appz and the main course.
I went with the curry cutlet chicken while my friend went with the sweet and sour fish lunch set… Perhaps one of us should have went with noodles cuz the rice dishes were terrible…
The sweet and sour fish was an imbalance of sweeet and sour while.the.cutlet fried chicken looked like a mess when it came out and it was just ok… midly warm.and.not.hot enough… also. both dishes did not look anything like the menu pics… tiny slur of dressing that was not.enough.for.the small salad
Terribly disappointed at the meal so hoping they read this and revamp the menus
Place rating: 3
Toronto, Canada
I’m not really a fan of Ten Ren’s food, drinks, and service. However, their holiday special meal was quite the opposite.
The holiday special meal features Hokkaido milk tea, a bowl of Russian borshch, a choice of steak or salmon entrée with a side of vegetables and spaghetti and a cake dessert all for $ 24.99.
So I decided to choose the steak entrée. I had really low expectations and had an odd thought of having steak at a tea room. The hokkaido milk tea was thick and had a creamy texture. I never had something like that before and I thought it was nice. The russian borshch wasn’t really hot and lacked something. The real surprise was the entrée dish with steak with a side of vegetables and spaghetti. It actually looked like the picture for once. The steak was really tender since it was advertised that they used angus beef cuts. I thought the spaghetti looked dull but it was actually pretty tasty. The vegetables were just so-​so as they were cold. I find that the dessert is not that special and it came straight out from the freezer as it was solid as a rock.
Sometimes when it gets really busy, their wifi does not work and their service is sometimes really slow.
Overall, I was shocked that this holiday special was overall a pass on my books. They should really consider putting it on their menu.
Place rating: 3
Richmond Hill, Canada
I love coming to this restaurant because the ambiance is beautiful. It was spacious, zen, and tranquil.
I came for a lunch and ordered the xiao long bao and beef pancake roll. The xiao long baos were way smaller than I expected and didn’t contain a lot of soup even considering its size. Our waitress said they put green tea flavor inside but I didn’t taste anything. The beef in the beef pancake roll was melt-​in-​your-​mouth tender but didn’t have any «meat flavor» and they slathered it in hoisin sauce. The pancake was soaked in oil and not crispy.
Lastly, for dessert, I ordered the green tea soft serve. It was more bitter than sweet and was not the sugary dessert I hoped for. The size was slightly smaller than Costco’s cone yet double the price — $ 3.99. It was absolutely not worth it, unless you want the bitter tea flavor.
Place rating: 4
New York, NY
I’m a fan of this location — it’s roomy, not too noisy, and the booths are ideal for just working or having private conversations. Although the bubble tea and drinks are more steep than you can get at around Yonge and Finch area, it is really fresh and the food is worthwhile to try!
I would personally recommend the Minced Pork Rice with Sausages or the Minced Pork Noodles!
Place rating: 5
Oakland Gardens, NY
Wow. The Ten Ren (s) I am used to in NYC is nothing compared to this Ten Ren’s Tea in this location. I come often to the Markham area from NYC since all my cousins live there but this was the first time I felt a need to try this Ten Ren after seeing it was open fairly late. So my brother, sister-​in-​law, friend and I walk in and BOOM this place is a restaurant! I was very impressed. Lots of different combos, they have green tea self serve (delicious) and lots of different toppings and such. We came twice in one day that is how delicious it was.
Note there is a minimum per person for table service and although it says wifi does not work 6pm after on weekends, it totally does. Fridays open until 3am, Sats until 1AM.
Place rating: 3
Richmond Hill, Canada
3.5/5~ This location is so much better than the one in Richmond Hill (Bayview/​Major Mac). I can’t believe it took me this long to finally come try this location! Kinda embarrassing, I know, but I’ve had bad experiences at the other one so I never thought to go to another Ten Ren’s ever again.
Service was good and food came pretty quick. Food/​drinks are a bit more on the pricey side though. I ordered the minced pork and sausage on rice which was alright but I was disappointed that there was only one sad piece of broccoli. Then I ordered the snow ice with red beans and soft serve green tea ice cream dessert to share with my 5 other friends. The portion was surprisingly fairly large as it was enough to share among all of us! Presentation was nice and it tasted yummy, especially the green tea ice cream.
The interior is nicely decorated and has plenty of seating. It’s pretty spacious for the most part. Definitely a nice place to go with friends and chat. Will be coming back.
Place rating: 5
Toronto, Canada
This place has the best quality bubble tea in the GTA. They actually use real tea and fruit. I often get the watermelon (seasonal) or the grape oolong tea. It’s one of my favourite places to go to hang out with friends. The seating is quite comfortable and the place is very nice overall.
Food: 4.5÷5, as mentioned above, all the bubble teas are great; I must have tried 10+ different teas here. Go for the teas. The food however isn’t that great — just ok tasting.
Service: 3/​5, good service and good staff
Ambience: 4/​5, great décor, music and it’s nicer if you can get the booth with back rests and wide tables. Very good place to have conversations and just hanging with friends.
Price: 2.5÷5, it’s a bit more expensive for bubble tea, around $ 10 per person but very much worth it.
Place rating: 2
Markham, Canada
Man, I used to come here so often that at one point, I think I’d actually tried almost everything on the menu (I don’t know why, so let’s just leave it alone! Lol). Nowadays, the menu has changed, but the overall experience has not.
Its an okay place to hang out friends, but there a couple things lacking. Overall a pricier location for ‘bubble tea’, but you do get some better ingredients (or so they say).
Had the Popcorn Chicken here today, and it wasn’t as good as I remembered it. It was a bit bland and didn’t have much of a punch to it, and the sauce it came with was too sweet to match. They also added a Chocolate Lava Cake (which doesn’t go with the theme of a ‘tea’ place), but it takes 20min of waiting time, and wasn’t all that great.
Drinks were alright, but its paying almost $ 10 or more for 1 drink, so either pace yourself or you’ll end up thirsty again before you leave.
Service here isn’t terrible, but does leave something to be desired. Seems kind of difficult to wave down any hostess/​server, and when you do, they don’t really seem like they understand… My friend also said one time she waited almost 2 hrs for food & drinks, whereas I needed to explain in excruciating detail what cake was in order to get some that was supposed to come with a meal.
Ambiance is a bit louder, so not a place to have a heart-​to-​heart with your bestie. At the same time, people around us seemed to be giving us dirty looks for speaking a bit louder ourselves…
Now I remember why I haven’t been here in a while! Will I ever come back? Probably, but it definitely wont be any time soon.
Place rating: 4
Seattle, WA
There’s a fob in me and I have an affinity for all nicely decorated bubbletea places that would let me catch up with friends in peace with small noms. Ten Ren’s in Thornhill is a gem: O
The somewhat fancy décor aside, I thought the food was delicious. The fried squid balls were coated with a really distinct seasoning and made me hungrier after I ate’em. The oolong milk tea was delicious and not too sweet; the taro milk tea, though, tasted powdery and it could be because I ordered that one hot.
The pu’er beef noodles were deliciously chewy (green in color, never had them before) and the beef was seasoned well — better than mains at Destiny’s. The selection for food is also much greater than the other bubbletea places you would go to in Toronto.
Of course, for dessert we got the mixed fruit green tea waffles. The waffle were okay — could have used more chocolate, and I didn’t touch the green tea whipped cream but had the ice cream instead. You have a choice of 2 out of 5 fruits — but be warned the peaches are canned. Still really enjoyed this place and would definitely go back to try more things on their menu. Only catch is the prices are definitely higher than Chatime or Destiny’s.