Berlin, Bangkok and sixteen more cities get their tea shop pages

Eighteen cities joined our tea shop pages this week. Each page brings the same things: shops with a street address, the opening hours they publish, prices with pack size and currency for the teas on their shelves, and the counter we would send a friend to first. Six countries are new to the map, Germany, the Netherlands, Thailand, Bulgaria, Portugal and France, so the “Where to find it” box on every tea page now points readers there to a real shop. Forty of the new shops have a page of their own, with three picks from the shelf and one tea worth the trip. New York, one of the oldest pages in the list, also got a fresh look at its two shops and ten more prices.

Berlin opens Germany with six shops and is the deepest page of the week. Paper & Tea at Alte Schönhauser Straße 50 in Mitte sells its teas in 80 g caddies, a Darjeeling Queen's Grace at 22,00 €; a few streets away Mamecha, a Japanese specialist on Mulackstraße, has a Sencha at 9,10 € for 50 g. Bohea in Friedrichshain prices an Assam Halmari at 9,50 € for 100 g, Nan Yi Tee in Wilmersdorf dates every harvest on the label and sells a Long Jing No. 43 at 18,00 € for 100 g, and Tee Tea Thé in Schöneberg and Teeshop Berlin in Adlershof carry the Ronnefeldt range. The Netherlands arrives with two cities. In Amsterdam, Het Kleinste Huis at Oude Hoogstraat 22 has a Golden Monkey at 10,00 € for 50 g and T's TeaBar in De Baarsjes a Dragonwell at 6,35 €, while Moychay on Rozengracht and Amsterdam Teas on Czaar Peterstraat both specialize in Chinese teas, a Yunnan Dianhong at 7,05 € for 25 g among them. In Groningen, Simon Lévelt on Zwanestraat sells an Earl Grey at 5,80 € for 100 g and Yourdailyteacup on Nieuwe Ebbingestraat an organic English Breakfast at 4,25 € for 50 g.

Three more countries came in on Thursday. In Bangkok, Monsoon Tea on Sukhumvit 23 sells its teas in 50 g packs, an Earl Grey at 230 ฿; Araksa Tea Room on Charoen Krung 38 has its Nin black tea at 350 ฿ for 40 g, and Chaidim Tea House in Talat Noi sells a loose jasmine green by the 250 g. Sofia is the first Bulgarian city, with prices in euros: Tea House Sofia on Parchevich Street has an organic English Breakfast at 3,30 € for 50 g and Veda House at Gladstone 2 an Assam at 3,60 €. In Lisbon, Companhia Portugueza do Chá at Rua do Poço dos Negros 105 blends an Earl Grey with Portuguese-grown bergamot at 8,00 € for 100 g, Tea Shop in the Armazéns do Chiado has a Strong English Breakfast at 8,75 €, and Mercearia dos Açores on Rua da Madalena stocks the Azorean Gorreana Orange Pekoe at 8,50 € for 100 g.

Two capitals that were missing got their pages on Friday. London starts with Twinings at 216 Strand, where the loose Earl Grey is 2,95 £ for 125 g and the London Strand blends 17,50 £, and Postcard Teas at 9 Dering Street in Mayfair, with an English Breakfast at 4,95 £ for 50 g and a West Lake Long Jing from a single Meijiawu garden at 24,95 £ for 10 g. Paris opens France with Mariage Frères, whose Marais shop at 30 rue du Bourg-Tibourg sells the Earl Grey at 12,00 € for 100 g and Marco Polo at 15,60 €, and Kusmi Tea at 49 avenue de l'Opéra, with Anastasia and Prince Vladimir at 15,00 € for 100 g.

Bristol and Sheffield add two English cities beyond London. In Bristol, Bird & Blend at 73 Park Street sells its blends in 50 g pouches at 6,00 £, and two refill shops, Preserve Foods on Gloucester Road and Zero Green in Bedminster, weigh out loose tea by the 100 g, an Assam Garden at 4,50 £ and an organic green at 4,80 £. In Sheffield, Pollards at 627 Ecclesall Road sells tea in 125 g bags, an English Breakfast at 3,30 £, and Birdhouse Tea Co. on Sidney Street has the same tea at 5,00 £ for 75 g. Alicante has Salzillo inside the Mercado Central, with an English Breakfast at 6,53 € for 125 g, and Tea Shop on Calle Pintor Cabrera, with an Earl Grey Superior at 8,90 € for 100 g. Hyderabad is India's third city: Ispahani Tea in the Old City sells its Assam black at 80 ₹ for 100 g, Lucky Tea Depot in Secunderabad a Lakhi's green at 120 ₹ for 100 g, and The Tea Shop in Kachiguda the Royale Assam CTC at 110 ₹ for 250 g.

Vancouver is Canada's second city and has five shops: O5 Tea in Kitsilano, with an 1875 Keemun at CA$ 18 for 40 g; Cultivate Tea on Main Street; Treasure Green and The Chinese Tea Shop in Chinatown, where a 2026 Long Jin is CA$ 29.95 for 50 g; and Aroma Tea House in Marpole, with a West Lake Dragon Well at CA$ 18 for 50 g. In Australia, Brisbane has Tour de Tea in New Farm, an English Breakfast at A$ 15.50 for 75 g, Odaya Tea in Sunnybank Plaza for Uji teas and The Tea Centre in the Brisbane Arcade, with a Milky Oolong at A$ 12.45 for 50 g; Perth pairs Teassential in the State Buildings, an organic English Breakfast at A$ 10 for 50 g, with T2 on Hay Street Mall. Christchurch is New Zealand's second city, led by Tī Ani inside Riverside Market, with an Assam at NZ$ 17.99 for 50 g and a Silver Needle at NZ$ 23.00 for 30 g.

In the United States, Saint Paul gets Sencha Tea Bar at 1692 Grand Avenue, where teas are sold by the ounce, an Assam at US$ 3.99, and San Antonio has Garden Tea Lounge inside the Craftiques Mall, with an Earl Grey at US$ 4.25 and a Dragon Well at US$ 7.75 per ounce. New York was this week's maintenance page and gained ten prices. At Harney & Sons in SoHo: a Lung Ching at US$ 30 for 3 oz, and an Organic Gunpowder at US$ 14, a Genmaicha at US$ 12, a Yin Hao Jasmine at US$ 20 and an Organic Darjeeling at US$ 16, all for 4 oz. At McNulty's on Christopher Street: an Earl Grey at US$ 10, a Darjeeling Supreme and a heavily smoked Lapsang at US$ 12, a Green Gunpowder Pinhead at US$ 12 and a Milk Oolong at US$ 17.50, all in 4 oz bags. Harney's Decaffeinated Chai is out of stock in every format and left the list, McNulty's Lavender tin gave way to the 4 oz bag at US$ 14, and McNulty's hours are now Monday to Saturday 11:00–19:00 and Sunday 11:00–17:00.

Every one of these shops now shows up in the “Where to find it” box of the teas it stocks. Open English Breakfast, pick a country, and the box lists the shops there that carry it, with price and size: the exact tea first, close matches after, and tea houses with a counter ahead of online-only sellers. If you would rather start from the occasion than from the shop, teas by moment sorts the catalogue that way.

— The FindMeTea editorial team