Tea shops · Netherlands
Our favorite tea shops in Amsterdam
4 places we'd send a friend to.
Amsterdam's loose-leaf shops are small and spread across the city: a tea and ceramics shop in a tiny old house in the centre, a single-origin shop in the Czaar Peterbuurt, the Amsterdam tea house of Moychay on Rozengracht and a tea bar in De Baarsjes. Prices below are in euros with VAT included, read on each shop's own site; most sell from 25 g or 50 g, and Moychay also sells much of its list in 7 g samples.
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Het Kleinste Huis
Centrum (Oude Hoogstraat) · Oude Hoogstraat 22, Amsterdam
In storeShips online· 7 pricesA tea and ceramics shop in the house it calls the smallest in Amsterdam, at Oude Hoogstraat 22, open since 2014, with more than 200 loose teas sold by 50, 100 and 250 g: Golden Monkey black at € 10,00 for 50 g, Tamaryokucha from Miyazaki at € 16,75, a green Tie Kuan Yin at € 9,75, Pai Mu Tan Superior at € 10,95, Pu-Erh Shu at € 9,95 for 100 g and matcha from Kagoshima at € 12,50 for 50 g.
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Amsterdam Teas
Czaar Peterbuurt (Oostelijke Eilanden) · Czaar Peterstraat 114, 1018 PT Amsterdam
In storeShips onlineHours: Wed–Sat 11:00–18:00 · Sun 13:00–17:00· 7 pricesA single-origin shop at Czaar Peterstraat 114, on a street of small food and craft shops, selling every tea in 25, 50 and 100 g: Yunnan Dianhong and Tie Guan Yin at € 7,05 for 25 g, a sencha at € 9,75, Da Hong Pao at € 10,85, Fuding Bai Mu Dan at € 12,05, Lao Cha Tou pu-erh nuggets at € 6,45 and rooibos at € 4,45. Online orders can be picked up free at the shop.
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Moychay
Jordaan (Rozengracht) · Rozengracht 92H, 1016 NG Amsterdam
In storeShips online· 6 pricesThe Amsterdam tea house of Moychay at Rozengracht 92H, a tea bar and shop where everything on its site can also be bought over the counter, much of it as 7 g samples next to the full packs: a Mi Xiang honey-fragrance black at € 17,20 for 45 g, White Monkey green at € 23,20 for 50 g, a roasted Flame Tie Guanyin at € 22,60 for 60 g, a Georgian green from Guria at € 9,00 and Japanese matcha from € 28,50. It also runs tastings and tea ceremonies; book a table at weekends.
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T's TeaBar & Loose Leaf
De Baarsjes (Jan Evertsenstraat) · Jan Evertsenstraat 89h, 1057 BS Amsterdam
In storeShips onlineHours: Every day 10:00–18:00· 7 pricesA tea bar and loose-leaf shop at Jan Evertsenstraat 89h in De Baarsjes, open every day, whose range leans to its own flavoured blends but keeps the classics in 50 and 100 g: Assam at € 6,45, Dragonwell at € 6,35, an Anxi oolong at € 8,45, Pai Mu Tan at € 7,95 and pu-erh at € 5,45 for 50 g, plus ceremonial matcha from € 24,95 and a 250 g bag of unsmoked mate at € 12,95.
Teas you can find in Amsterdam
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