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The city guide · IndiaTea shops inHyderabad.
Hyderabad is a chai city before it is a tea city: the cup of the day is Irani chai poured in Old City cafés, and the shops that sell leaf to take home are blenders of strong Assam for the milk pot rather than boutiques. Three of them have their own doors and their own prices online: a 1964 blender from the Old City with a retail store on Mir Alam Mandi Road, a 1975 depot on Prenderghast Road in Secunderabad, and a 1976 wholesaler in Kachiguda with a retail counter. Between them you get everyday Assam at 80 ₹ the 100 g, a masala chai at 240 ₹ the 250 g and, on the loose-leaf side, a Darjeeling black tea at 242 ₹ the 25 g. Prices are in rupees; the city's one specialty tea lounge is listed further down without prices, because everything on its site is marked down today.
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- 01Loose-leaf specialist
Ispahani Tea
Own store in the Old City (Mir Alam Mandi Road); also sold at Shabbir Medical Hall (Afzal Gunj) and the BHAI ki CHAI cafés in Banjara Hills
6 prices listedIspahani Tea
Ispahani Tea Wholesale & Retail Store, Mir Alam Mandi Road, opposite Darum Shifa Stadium, Hyderabad
The Old City blender founded by a pharmacist in 1964, with its own store on Mir Alam Mandi Road and the Finjaan specialty teas sold in 25 g packs.
In storeShips onlineSince 1964Read the full shop note
The Old City's house blender since 1964, started by a pharmacist, with its own wholesale-and-retail store on Mir Alam Mandi Road opposite Darum Shifa Stadium (opened in 2022), a counter at Shabbir Medical Hall in Afzal Gunj, and BHAI ki CHAI cafés on Road No. 7 and Road No. 3 in Banjara Hills where the same packets are sold. The everyday blends are the cheapest leaf on this page, an Assam black at 80 ₹ and a green at 70 ₹ the 100 g; the specialty side comes from the group's Finjaan lounge in 25 g packs: Wonder of Darjeeling at 242 ₹, a Kashmiri kahwa at 220 ₹, butterfly pea Blue Tea at 290 ₹ and Bulgarian rose buds at 327 ₹. The online shop ships across India.
What to bring home
Website: ispahanitea.shop 
02Loose-leaf specialistLucky Tea Depot
Secunderabad (Prenderghast Road)
6 prices listedLucky Tea Depot
1-8-144/2, Prenderghast Road, Secunderabad, Hyderabad 500003
A one-shop Assam tea depot on Prenderghast Road in Secunderabad, founded in 1975 and run by the Lakhi family for three generations.
In storeShips onlineSince 1975Mon–Sat 10:00–20:30 · Sun closed
Read the full shop note
A one-shop tea depot on Prenderghast Road in Secunderabad, founded by Manoharlal K Lakhi in 1975 and run by the family for three generations; the store has traded from this address since 1980 and opens Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 20:30. The Lakhi's range is Assam through and through: a plain green tea at 120 ₹ the 100 g, Ruhani Chai high-grown Assam at 180 ₹ the 250 g, a masala chai with ginger, cardamom and cinnamon at 240 ₹ the 250 g and a nine-spice kahwa at 210 ₹ the 100 g, plus chamomile and butterfly pea flowers at 330 ₹ the 50 g jar. Natural flavours only, by the house promise, and free delivery across India.
What to bring home
Website: luckyteadepot.com
03Loose-leaf specialistThe Tea Shop (Modi Tea)
Kachiguda
6 prices listedThe Tea Shop (Modi Tea)
F.No. G3, H.No. 3-4-37 & 38, Yashoda Nandanam Apartments, Kachiguda, Hyderabad 500027
Modi Tea's retail counter in Kachiguda, the shop front of a wholesaler that has traded Assam in Hyderabad since 1976, with house CTC at 110 rupees the 250 g.
In storeShips onlineSince 1976Mon–Sat 10:00–20:00
Read the full shop note
Modi Tea's retail counter in Kachiguda, at flat G3 of Yashoda Nandanam Apartments, open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00 and run by a company that began as a wholesale tea trader in Hyderabad in 1976 and now packs its own Assam blends and distributes Girnar. The house CTC is the bargain of the page, Royale at 110 ₹ the 250 g plain or as a masala blend; the tea-bag side is Girnar, a 25-bag green at 130 ₹ and 10-bag jasmine, Moroccan mint and camomile-honey boxes at 80 ₹ each. Online orders ship from the same address.
What to bring home
Website: theteashop.in
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Finjaan The Tea Lounge
Banjara Hills, Road No. 7 (opposite the Irani Consulate); also Afzal Gunj · 8-2-577/1/A/4 Imam Khomeini Road, Banjara Hills Road No. 7, Hyderabad 500034
Website: finjaan.comThe city's specialty tea lounge and the same group as Ispahani, with the widest loose-leaf list in Hyderabad on its site: Dragon Well, Bai Mu Dan, jasmine pearls, Big Red Robe, a Darjeeling oolong, a Sikkim Temi and a pu-erh. We could not price it because every tea on the site is shown marked down from a higher figure today, and we only publish list prices. The identical teas at their regular price are on Ispahani's shop above.
Ask for prices in storeTea Culture of the World
Counters in Simpli Namdhari's (Road No. 12, Banjara Hills) and Q Mart (Banjara Hills and Gachibowli)
Website: teacultureoftheworld.comThe Mumbai tea house's store locator lists three Hyderabad points of sale, all counters inside supermarkets rather than a shop of its own, so it stays off the price table here; its catalogue is priced on the Mumbai page.
Ask for prices in storeExotic Blooming Teas Studio
Jubilee Hills
A tea studio and shop in a Jubilee Hills basement with more than twenty flavoured and blooming teas by the accounts of visitors, but no website of its own, so there is neither an address nor a price we could read from the source.
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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.
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Hours and visiting conditions can differ between branches. Use the address and details for the location you plan to visit.
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