Molly Tea Philadelphia: Menu, Prices & University City Visit

Molly Tea sits at 3720 Chestnut Street, 1st Floor Suite B, in University City, a few doors from Penn’s campus edge. Drinks run $4.59 to $8.49 on Chowbus pickup and exactly a dollar more on delivery apps. It opened in June 2025, holds 4.6 stars across 386 Google reviews, and — unlike most Molly Tea stores — its best-seller here isn’t the jasmine milk tea.

The Philadelphia price list

Two price sets exist for this store. The lower one is Chowbus, the brand’s own pickup system. The higher one is what DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub show.

The gap is a flat dollar. Every drink, no exceptions. Order pickup on Chowbus and walk over — that dollar is the platform’s cut, not the store’s price. Two people ordering twice a week save about $200 a year on the same drinks.

Toppings, which no delivery listing displays clearly: pecan $0.99, sago $0.99, brown sugar boba $0.99, white boba pearl $1.29, matcha cheese $2.99, hazelnut cheese $2.99, jasmine whipped cream with pecan $3.49, pistachio cheese $3.99.

What Philadelphia orders

The store’s DoorDash listing ranks Premium Jasmine Citrus at #1, with Premium Jasmine Milk Tea second. That inverts the pattern at the original Flushing store, where the jasmine milk tea leads.

It makes sense on a campus block. The citrus build is the cheapest drink on the menu after the two plain brewed teas, it’s the lightest thing here, and it works in a way milk tea doesn’t when you’re carrying it to a two-hour lecture. It carries a citrus allergy warning — orange, lime, and lemon.

If you want the drink the brand is built on, the Premium Jasmine Milk Tea at $6.99 pickup is still the one. Order it at 30% sugar. Several reviewers here have said the same thing independently: one found milk teas still sweet at 50% and planned to drop to 25%, while another found the White Champaca Oolong balanced even at 70%. The champaca line handles sugar better than the jasmine line does.

The matcha here is a different lineup

This store doesn’t carry the Premium Jasmine Matcha or Camellia Matcha found elsewhere. It runs Velvety Matcha Supreme and Velvety Matcha Champaca, each in a small and a medium cup, plus the two salted cheese versions.

The size split matters. Small is $6.99, medium is $8.49 — a $1.50 difference for the same drink. If you’re testing whether this style of matcha works for you, start small. The small cups note that extra toppings come on the side.

Osmanthus and Camellia Zest aren’t on this menu either. The Philadelphia list skews tighter and more jasmine-forward than the full chain menu.

Allergens, plainly

Only two drinks are dairy-free: Premium Jasmine Tea and Gardenia Tea. Everything else contains fresh milk.

The four Snowy drinks are topped with crushed pecans. Both pistachio coconut drinks contain pistachios. The two Tongmu Lapsang builds — the bubble tea and the salted cheese — are finished with hazelnut cheese. Premium Jasmine Citrus is prepared in an environment that also handles milk, nuts, soy, and gluten.

Molly Tea publishes no calorie or nutrition figures for any US store, and a Google reviewer here raised that directly. Staff can’t give you numbers either. If you’re tracking intake, the two brewed teas are the only drinks with a knowable, simple build.

Getting there, and how long it takes

3720 Chestnut St, 1st Floor Ste B, Philadelphia, PA 19104 · (215) 970-7293 Mon–Thu 11 AM–10 PM · Fri–Sat 11 AM–11 PM · Sun 11 AM–10 PM

The shop is on the ground floor of the Newman Center building on Chestnut between 37th and 38th. From 40th Street station on the Market–Frankford Line, walk two blocks east on Chestnut — about four minutes. From 37th–Spruce trolley station on Penn’s campus, head north on 37th and turn right, roughly the same. Huntsman Hall and the Penn Bookstore are both inside a five-minute walk.

Ordering is kiosk-first. There’s a counter, indoor seats, and a small outdoor setup, though the room fills fast and seating isn’t the reason to come.

Service here is quick. A January 2026 visitor ordering at 3:30 PM on a Friday, with several people already at the kiosks, had drinks in hand in under five minutes. That’s a different experience from the Flushing and San Gabriel flagships. The store does get busy late — one April 2026 customer found it crowded at 9:45 PM and noted the kiosks showing wear — so if the screens are glitching, the staff at the register can take the order directly.

If you’d rather not wait

Chestnut and Walnut carry a dense boba corridor within a few blocks:

• Gong cha University City, 3925 Walnut St — the closest direct competitor, 4.9 stars on 192 Google reviews, closes earlier at 9:30 PM
• Tea-Do, 3816–36 Chestnut St — a block west, cheaper, classic Taiwanese-style boba, seating and wifi
• bobaface, 111 S 38th St — small operation, campus favourite, very low prices
• LULU CAFE, 28–30 S 40th St — Taiwanese café with food alongside drinks
• Surreal Creamery, 3818 Chestnut St — ice cream and bubble tea floats, open till 10 or 11

Molly Tea is the only one of these built around floral scented tea rather than fruit or classic milk tea, so it isn’t really replacing any of them.

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