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The city guide · IndiaTea shops inBengaluru.
Bengaluru drinks more coffee than tea by tradition, and its tea scene is mostly chai cafes and counters inside supermarkets. Two real tea shops with their own doors are worth the trip: Sancha, the Delhi boutique chain that has three Bengaluru stores — on Lavelle Road downtown and in the Phoenix malls in Hebbal and on Whitefield Road — where every visit starts with a free tasting in china cups; and Infinitea, a tea room founded in the city in 2003 on Cunningham Road, with a second outlet in Indiranagar and a Darjeeling garden of its own in the Mirik valley. Between them the shelves run from a 150 ₹ Earl Grey to a 3.000 ₹ gyokuro, all in 50 g or 100 g packs. Teabox, which ships from Siliguri, covers the estate-specific Darjeeling and Nilgiri leaf nobody in town stocks.
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Sancha Tea Boutique
Lavelle Road (CBD), Phoenix Mall of Asia (Hebbal), Phoenix Marketcity (Whitefield Road)
10 prices listedSancha Tea Boutique
Lavelle Regency Building, Ground Floor, No. 54, Lavelle Road, Bengaluru 560001
Three Bengaluru boutiques of the Delhi tea house founded in 1981, where every visit begins with a free tasting in china cups and a sommelier at your elbow.
In storeShips onlineLavelle Road: every day 11:00–20:00 · Mall of Asia: every day 10:00–22:00 · Phoenix Marketcity: every day 10:30–22:00
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The Bengaluru boutiques of the Delhi tea house that began as Aap Ki Pasand in 1981 and now runs fifteen stores across India. Three addresses here: the ground floor of Lavelle Regency on Lavelle Road, and counters in Phoenix Mall of Asia in Hebbal and Phoenix Marketcity on Whitefield Road. The house rule is a complimentary tasting served in china, no purchase required, with staff who walk you through origin and brewing. Around a hundred teas: a second-flush 2026 Darjeeling at 800 ₹ the 100 g, a Wuyi oolong at 650 ₹ the 50 g, jasmine dragon pearls at 899 ₹, silver-needle white from 600 ₹ the 25 g, and an Original Masala Chai at 400 ₹ the 100 g. Open seven days a week at all three.
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Website: sanchatea.com 
02Loose-leaf specialistInfinitea
Cunningham Road (central) and Indiranagar
12 prices listedInfinitea
#2 Shah Sultan Complex, Cunningham Road, Bengaluru 560001
A Cunningham Road tea room established in 2003 by a self-styled Chef du Tea, with its own Darjeeling garden in the Mirik valley and every tea sold in one 100 g pack.
In storeShips onlineSince 2003Every day 9:00–18:00 (both outlets)
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A tea room with a kitchen and a retail counter, established in Bengaluru in 2003 by Gaurav Saria, who signs as the house's "Chef du Tea". The main address is Shah Sultan Complex on Cunningham Road, with a second outlet in Indiranagar, and the brand is tied to the Gopaldhara garden in Darjeeling's Mirik valley. Everything is sold in a single 100 g pack, which makes the price list unusually easy to compare: an Assam Orthodox at 300 ₹, an Earl Grey at 150 ₹, a Darjeeling Muscatel at 1.200 ₹, an organic China sencha at 1.500 ₹, a ginseng oolong at 2.400 ₹ and Darjeeling silver needles at 3.000 ₹. Open every day from 9:00 to 18:00.
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Website: infiniteaoriginals.com
Prices keep each product’s listed currency and pack size. Check current prices and hours with the shop.
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Golden Tips Tea
Phoenix Marketcity, Whitefield Road (per directories)
Website: goldentipstea.inDirectories place a Golden Tips showroom on the ground floor of Phoenix Marketcity, and the brand's own site does show prices, but its showroom page lists twenty outlets in nine cities and none of them is Bengaluru. Until the shop itself says the store exists, it stays off the map.
Ask for prices in storeTea Culture of the World
Counters inside Nature's Basket and Simpli Namdhari's (Koramangala, Bellandur, Jayanagar, RT Nagar, Yelahanka)
Website: teacultureoftheworld.comSeven points of sale in the city according to its store locator, all of them shelves inside other retailers rather than a shop of its own, which is the one thing this page requires.
Ask for prices in storeA little local knowledge
Before you head out.
Currency, grams & tea bags
Each price keeps its original pack size. A box of bags and a pouch of loose leaf aren’t a like-for-like comparison.
Check the right location
Hours and visiting conditions can differ between branches. Use the address and details for the location you plan to visit.
Pickup and appointments
Some sellers operate pickup offices or showrooms. Read the shop note and check its visiting conditions before setting out.
A guide with a point of view
Tea specialists lead the discovery. Other retailers keep their own category, for familiar blends and everyday essentials.
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Tea photographs are illustrative unless identified as a photograph of the shop. Images are cropped or framed to fit the layout.
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