Tea shops · Auckland, New Zealand
Tea shops · Auckland, New ZealandChapter Book & Tea Shop
The longest-established tea shop in Auckland, in Mt Eden Village since 1995: around 300 teas weighed to order, next to 2,500 romance novels.
Bring your own tin and the tea is fifty cents cheaper. A shop that weighs to order still thinks in grams, not in packaging.
Chapter is a family affair with its roots in the Mt Eden tea shop that had operated at 442 Mt Eden Rd since 1995. The mix of tea and books started ten years later: with cousin Christina's help, Chapter was born in 2005 and the shelves widened to romance fiction alongside the tea. The current owner, Frances, describes the move as a career change made to fix a problem she kept running into, and the shop now stocks around 300 specialty teas and some 2,500 books, most of them romance.
Most of the tea is weighed up to order, and the shop names its suppliers on the site: Metropolitan Tea, Harney & Sons and Tea Total as the main ones, then T Leaf T, Coffee and Tea Lovers, KeriKeri Organic, Zealong, Oku, Pukka and Lezzo. That is why one page can hold an English Breakfast at NZ$ 16 the 100 g, a Darjeeling Margaret's Hope at NZ$ 22, a Bai Mu Tan at NZ$ 25, and by the 50 g an organic Wuyi rock oolong at NZ$ 27 and a Japanese gyokuro at NZ$ 25. There is a café counter too, with sweet and savoury snacks and Atomic coffee.
The shop opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10 to 4 and stays closed on Mondays except in December, with a summer break from Christmas Day until mid-January during which web orders are still processed. It hosts the monthly Auckland Romance Readers book club and sponsors Romance Writers of New Zealand. It is also the only Auckland shop on our list that explains how to arrive: Mt Eden Rd has clearway hours in the morning and late afternoon, there is a public car park on Essex Rd, and after-hours orders can be collected from the fruit shop three doors along.
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Where it is
Mt Eden Village
442 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden, Auckland 1024
Mt Eden Rd has clearways 7–10am northbound and 4–7pm southbound; public car park on Essex Rd, free side-street parking
Hours: Tue–Sun 10am–4pm · Mon closed (except in December)
What to buy here
English Breakfast
Breakfast Teas – English Breakfast
from NZ$ 16 · 100 g
The house English Breakfast, weighed from 100 g: the tea most of Mt Eden buys here, and the one to bring your own tin for.
See our page on this tea →Wuyi Oolong
Premium Oolong Teas – Organic WuYi Rock Oolong
from NZ$ 27 · 50 g
An organic Wuyi rock oolong sold by the 50 g, the roasted, mineral style that rarely reaches a general tea shop, and the dearest thing on this list for a reason.
See our page on this tea →Darjeeling
Darjeeling Teas – Darjeeling Margaret's Hope
from NZ$ 22 · 100 g
A named-garden Darjeeling, Margaret's Hope, weighed from 100 g. A shop with three suppliers for its blacks can afford to keep the famous garden on the shelf.
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The one worth the trip
Premium Green Teas – Japan Gyokuro
from NZ$ 25 · 50 g
A Japanese gyokuro by the 50 g, at the price the shop charges for a Wuyi oolong: shade-grown leaf that needs cool water and a small pot, and a tea most of Auckland has never tasted. Buy it here, then read a chapter with it.
See our page on this tea →Every price we read, one by one
List prices read on the shop's own product pages. Open a tea to see who else sells it.
| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast Teas – English Breakfast | Black tea | from NZ$ 16 | 100 g |
| Chinese and Taiwanese Teas – China Jasmine | Green tea | from NZ$ 17 | 100 g |
| Chai and Christmas Teas – Masala Chai | Chai | from NZ$ 17 | 100 g |
| Earl Grey Teas – Earl Grey Superior | Black tea | from NZ$ 17.50 | 100 g |
| Oolong Teas – Formosa Oolong | Oolong tea | from NZ$ 18.50 | 100 g |
| Darjeeling Teas – Darjeeling Margaret's Hope | Black tea | from NZ$ 22 | 100 g |
| White Teas – Bai Mu Tan | White tea | from NZ$ 25 | 100 g |
| Premium Green Teas – Japan Gyokuro | Green tea | from NZ$ 25 | 50 g |
| Premium Oolong Teas – Organic WuYi Rock Oolong | Oolong tea | from NZ$ 27 | 50 g |
Teas you can find here
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