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Tea shops inCanberra.

Canberra's tea is split between the Canberra Centre on Bunda Street, where The Tea Centre and T2 both have a shop under one roof, and the suburbs, where the city's own blenders work. Adore Tea, a family company founded in 2006, blends and hand-packs more than 150 teas at its Mitchell warehouse and runs a teahouse and boutique there and a second one in Woden; Waypoint Tea Co, started in 2018, sells its dozen blends from a shopfront in the Dairy Road precinct in Fyshwick three days a week. Prices below are in Australian dollars with GST included: Adore from 20 g packs (Ceylon Gold at A$ 7, Silver Needles at A$ 12.50), Waypoint in 50 and 80 g bags, The Tea Centre from 50 g pouches and T2 in 50 and 100 g cubes and tins.

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01Loose-leaf specialist
Adore Tea
Mitchell (flagship teahouse and boutique) and Woden (Phillip)
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Adore Tea
Unit 2/2 Dacre St, Mitchell ACT 2911 · Shop 3/2 Furzer Street, Phillip ACT 2606
Canberra's own tea company since 2006: more than 150 teas blended and hand-packed in Mitchell, with a teahouse and boutique there and a second in Woden.
In storeShips onlineSince 2006
Mitchell: daily 8:00–17:00 · Woden (Phillip): Mon–Fri 7:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 8:00–17:00
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Canberra's own tea company, founded in 2006 and still owned by the family that started it, with every tea blended and hand-packed at its warehouse in Mitchell. The flagship teahouse and boutique at Unit 2/2 Dacre Street, Mitchell, opened in 2023 and serves a seasonal high tea; the Woden shop at Shop 3/2 Furzer Street, Phillip, carries the same range. Everything starts at a 20 g pack: Ceylon Gold (OPA), Organic English Breakfast and Long Jing at A$ 7, Iron Goddess Tie Guan Yin at A$ 6, Yin Zhen Silver Needles and an organic Japanese matcha at A$ 12.50, Organic Chamomile at A$ 6, with 60 and 150 g sizes above (herbs in 50 and 100 g).
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Website: adoretea.com
02Loose-leaf specialist
Waypoint Tea Co
Dairy Road precinct, Fyshwick
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Waypoint Tea Co
Building 3.3, Dairy Road, Fyshwick ACT
A Canberra blender's shopfront in Fyshwick's Dairy Road precinct: a dozen loose-leaf teas blended and packed in the city since 2018, tastings three days a week.
In storeShips onlineSince 2018
Wed–Fri 11:00–14:00
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Finn McGrath's small company, begun in 2018, blends and packs its teas in Canberra and sells them from a shopfront in Building 3.3 of the Dairy Road precinct in Fyshwick, down the corridor from Keep Co and the Grainger Gallery, open 11 am to 2 pm Wednesday to Friday with tasters on the counter. The range is a dozen teas in 50 and 80 g bags: Waypoint Breakfast, Earl Grey and an Australian-grown sencha at A$ 16.50 for 80 g, Masala Chai and the smoky Campfire at A$ 18.50, Pai Mu Tan at A$ 17 for 50 g and Jasmine Pearls at A$ 22.50 for 50 g, with sample sizes and 250 to 500 g bulk bags of most of them.
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Website: waypointtea.com.au
03Loose-leaf specialist
The Tea Centre
Canberra Centre (Civic)
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The Tea Centre
Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda St, Canberra ACT 2601
The Canberra shop of The Tea Centre, the chain founded in Sydney in 1993, inside the Canberra Centre on Bunda Street, with loose leaf from 50 g pouches.
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Mon–Thu 9:00–17:30 · Fri 9:00–20:00 · Sat 9:00–17:00 · Sun 10:00–16:00
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The Canberra shop of the chain founded in Sydney in 1993, inside the Canberra Centre at 148 Bunda Street, open until 8 pm on Fridays. Loose leaf comes in 50, 100 and 250 g pouches: English Breakfast at A$ 9.45 for 50 g, Earl Grey at A$ 10.95, Second Flush Darjeeling at A$ 11.45, Sencha at A$ 12.45, Lung Ching Grade 3 at A$ 15.95, Ti Kuan Yin at A$ 16.95, a Taiwanese Dung Ti oolong at A$ 19.95, Pai Mu Tan at A$ 19.45, Silver Needles at A$ 31.45 and a 30 g tin of matcha at A$ 39, with the chain's chai, rooibos and herbal shelves alongside.
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Website: theteacentre.com.au
04Loose-leaf specialist
T2 Tea
Canberra Centre (Civic), Westfield Belconnen and Westfield Woden
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T2 Tea
Shop DG03/4, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda St, Civic Square ACT 2604
T2's Canberra city shop on the ground floor of the Canberra Centre, with the Melbourne tea company's boxed loose leaf, a Canberra Breakfast blend and late Friday trading.
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Mon–Thu 9:00–17:30 · Fri 9:00–21:00 · Sat 9:00–17:00 · Sun 10:00–16:00
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T2's city shop is Shop DG03/4 in the Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, from the tea company that opened its first store in Fitzroy, Melbourne, in 1996; two more T2 shops sit in Westfield Belconnen and Westfield Woden. The loose leaf comes in boxed cubes and black tins: a Canberra Breakfast with oats, coconut and rose at A$ 22 for 100 g, English Breakfast and Earl Grey at A$ 18, Japanese Sencha at A$ 26, a plain oolong at A$ 18, a Taiwanese Dong Ding in a 100 g tin at A$ 64 and Silver Needles at A$ 56 for 50 g. Online orders can be collected in store, and it stays open until 9 pm on Fridays.
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Website: t2tea.com