Tea shops in Oslo, Gothenburg and Heredia, plus nine cities and Melbourne

Twelve cities joined our tea shop pages this week, and three of them open new countries: Norway with Oslo and Stavanger, Sweden with Gothenburg, and Costa Rica with Heredia. Each page carries the same things as the rest of the map: shops with a street address, the hours they publish, the price and pack size of the teas on their shelves in the local currency, and the counter we would send a friend to first. Twenty-six of the new shops have a page of their own, with three picks from the shelf and one tea worth the trip. And Melbourne, the oldest page in the queue, went from one shop with prices to three.

Oslo is sold by two houses with roots elsewhere. A.C. Perch's Thehandel, the Copenhagen tea merchant founded in 1835, has run its own shop and tearoom at Kirkegata 5 since November 2017 and weighs loose tea by the 100 g, Indisk Morgente at 124 kr and a Margaret's Hope first-flush Darjeeling at 280 kr; Palais des Thés keeps two shops, on Bogstadveien in Majorstuen and at Grensen 10, with an organic Ceylon Breakfast at 189 kr per 100 g and a Grand Cru shelf that runs to 999 kr for Long Jing Premium. Stavanger buys its tea from its coffee people: Kaffehuset, at Østervåg 15 for over 50 years, sells 100 g bags from a 62 kr Gunpowder to a 199 kr Japanese Sencha, and Husets Kaffebrenneri, a roastery with its own counter, carries the Dilmah range in boxes of 100 bags at 359 kr.

Gothenburg is the deepest page of the week, six shops and most of them a few blocks from Kungstorget. Thehuset has traded from the same premises since 1924, with an organic Earl Grey at 99 kr per 100 g; Josefin weighs tea inside Stora Saluhallen, English Breakfast at 60 kr; Tehuset Java, the Lund tea house of 1932, opened on Korsgatan in 2025; across the canal, Tekultur on Andra Långgatan lists an organic English Breakfast at 48 kr per 100 g and Tie Guan Yin at 128 kr, Tea's i Haga sits at the top of Haga Nygata, and Kaffelunden on Danska vägen keeps about 200 teas with a Keemun at 45 kr. A plain everyday black tea in this city starts under 50 kr per 100 g.

Canada gained five cities. Saskatoon has McQuarries Tea & Coffee Merchants at 708 Broadway Avenue, family-run for over 90 years, with English, Irish and Scottish breakfast blends at 6.75 CA$ for 50 g. Calgary pairs Tea Trader in Ramsay, an importer since 1993 that sells by estate, Earl Grey at 15 CA$ for 125 g and a first-grade Dragonwell at 26 CA$, with The Naked Leaf in Kensington and its artist-labelled tins. Halifax has World Tea House on Argyle Street since 2010, Earl Grey at 17 CA$ for 100 g, and Eastern Tea Bar on Gottingen Street, Genmaicha from 6 CA$ for 25 g. Victoria is where Murchie's began in 1894, and the Government Street shop sells English Breakfast at 7.25 CA$ for 2 oz, two blocks from Silk Road Tea in Chinatown and around the corner from Just Matcha. Kingston has two shops run by certified tea sommeliers: Cha Cha Tea on Days Road since 2006, Sencha at 9.90 CA$ for 50 g, and Enchanted Creations on Highway 15.

The rest of the week spans three continents. Salt Lake City has two tea houses: The Tea Grotto on 900 South, since 2004, sells about 150 teas from 50 g, English Breakfast at 9.99 US$, and Tea Zaanti in Sugar House pours more than 85 teas and sells them in 1.5 oz tins from 12.99 US$. Cardiff sells its tea out of the arcades: Waterloo Tea, the importer with three teahouses since 2008, lists English Breakfast at 5,80 £ for 100 g, Bird & Blend keeps its wall of 100 blends in the Royal Arcade at 6,00 £ for 50 g, and Wally's delicatessen has traded there since 1981. Heredia, in Costa Rica, has one tea bar, Sencha Tea Co. inside Oxígeno, English Breakfast at ₡5,450 for 50 g before the 13 % IVA, and the Twinings shelf at Walmart and Mas x Menos from ₡4,080 for a 50 g box. Adelaide has T2 on Rundle Mall, English Breakfast at A$ 18 for 100 g, Kappy's by the Central Market, roasting since 1932 and selling its teas from A$ 8 per 100 g, and Brackendale Tea Co in the hills at Blackwood.

Melbourne was this week's maintenance page, and it changed more than any other maintained so far. Tea Leaves in Olinda keeps all six of its prices, China Sencha still at A$ 7.60 per 100 g. Oriental Teahouse, the yum cha house that began as a tea shop on Chapel Street, now sells its teas online as well as at the counter, so it moves from a footnote to the top of the page with seven teas in 50 g bags, Black Dragon oolong from A$ 11 and Long Jing from A$ 20, sold upstairs at 455 Chapel Street in South Yarra and at 378 Little Collins Street. And T2, the Melbourne company that opened its first shop in Fitzroy in 1996, gains a city listing at 269 Little Collins Street with its six boxed classics, English Breakfast at A$ 18 for 100 g. Both new shops have a page of their own.

Every one of these shops now appears 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