A new place for dessert and bubble tea has debuted in this busy Columbia retail area

There’s a new spot for sweet treats in one of Columbia’s busier shopping districts.

D & Tea Dessert and Bubble Tea recently opened its doors at 1320 Bower Parkway in the Columbiana Station shopping center. That’s next door to a Poke Bros. restaurant and just a few doors down from the 14-screen Regal Cinemas Columbiana Grande movie theater.

This is the second D & Tea outpost in Columbia. The first location is at 480 Town Center Place in the Village at Sandhill shopping development in northeast Columbia.

The menu at D & Tea includes a selection of cheesecakes, mochi in various flavors, and a host of fruit teas, milk teas, lattes and other drinks.

The overall Harbison area northwest of Columbia continues to be a high-traffic retail district, with numerous stores, restaurants, bars, theaters and services just off Interstate 26. Roughly 29,500 cars per day travel down Harbison near the Columbiana Centre mall, per state Department of Transportation statistics, and about 10,600 cars per day pass down nearby Bower Parkway, where the Columbiana Station shopping center is located.