A running taste-test, one café at a time

Chasing the best iced matcha lattes in town.

Neila Drinks Matcha is a straw-first field log of the cafés worth the trip — rated, photographed, and pinned as the search continues.


The premise

One iced latte, judged honestly.

Every café gets the same order: an iced matcha latte, no vanilla to hide behind. Each one gets a Neila Drinks Matcha (NDM) Score from 0.0 to 5.0 — the cups where the matcha actually holds its own against the ice and milk.

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  • 4.5–5.0Vibrant, well-whisked matcha with real balance — you can taste it through every sip, straw to the last cube.
  • 3.5–4.4A solid everyday order. Good ratio, good oat milk, nothing to complain about.
  • 2.5–3.4Drinkable, but unbalanced — too sweet, too thin, or too icy to fully land.
  • 0.0–2.4Mostly milk and syrup wearing a matcha costume. Noted, not reordered.

The café map

20 cafés and counting

Click a pin to see the café, its Neila Drinks Matcha score, and a link straight to their site.


Community matcha map

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Submitted by matcha people, not just Neila

Every café below was submitted and scored by the community. Found a good one? Add it to the map.

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Top NDM scores

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