Tea shops · United Kingdom
Tea shops · United KingdomOur favorite tea shops in Leeds
3 places we'd send a friend to.
Leeds buys its tea in two places: the shopping streets between Briggate and Commercial Street, where Bird & Blend keeps its wall of 100 blends and Whittard of Chelsea, the London merchant founded in 1886, has its Lands Lane store, and the Food Hall of Kirkgate Market, where Teapot - Tea or Coffee has sold more than 100 numbered loose leaf teas by weight since it opened as a market stall in 2014. The price gap is wide: an everyday English Breakfast is £3.95 for 50 g at Teapot, £6.00 for 50 g at Bird & Blend and £10.95 for 100 g at Whittard. Prices below are in pounds with VAT included.
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Teapot - Tea or Coffee
Kirkgate Market, Food Hall · Cafe C, Food Hall, Leeds Kirkgate Market, 34 George St, Leeds LS2 7HY
In storeShips online· 8 pricesAn independent tea merchant with a café counter, Cafe C, in the Food Hall of Kirkgate Market on George Street, started as a market stall in 2014 and moved into the Food Hall in 2016. More than 100 numbered loose leaf teas, each sold in 20 g samplers, 50 g, 125 g and 250 g bags and often by the kilo: English Breakfast, Earl Grey Original and a China sencha at £3.95 for 50 g, the house Yorkshire Blend (Kirkgate Tea) at £2.95, Ceylon Highlands OP1 at £4.25, an organic Tie Guan Yin at £5.50, organic Pai Mu Tan at £6.00 and an organic matcha at £5.00 for 50 g. Online orders can be collected at the café by arrangement; delivery inside Leeds is free on Mondays and Thursdays, and UK postage is free.
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Bird & Blend Tea Co. Leeds
Commercial Street · 15 Commercial St, Leeds LS1 6AL
In storeShips onlineHours: Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00 · Sun 11:00–17:00· 8 pricesThe blender's shop at 15 Commercial Street, which the store page calls the company's first in Yorkshire, open Monday to Saturday 10:00–18:00 and Sunday 11:00–17:00, with the wall of 100 loose leaf blends and mixologists who make iced teas and tea lattes at the counter. The classics are £6.00 for a 50 g pouch: Builder's Breakfast Brew, Assam Earl Grey, Earl Grey Creme, Sunny Sencha and Peppy Mint peppermint, with 20 g tasters at £3.50; Coconut Milk Oolong is £10.50 and the Pure Grade Ceremonial Matcha £22.00 for a 30 g tin. The Leeds signature is Yorkshire Rose Tea, a black tea with fruity notes and rose petals at £8.50 for 50 g. The store runs ticketed seasonal tasting sessions it calls mixers, at £15.00 with two 50 g pouches to take home.
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Whittard of Chelsea Leeds
Lands Lane · 38 Lands Lane, Leeds LS1 6LB
In storeShips onlineHours: Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00 · Sun 10:00–17:00· 8 pricesThe Leeds store of the tea, coffee and hot chocolate merchant born in Chelsea in 1886, at 38 Lands Lane, open Monday to Saturday 10:00–18:00 and Sunday 10:00–17:00, with click and collect for online orders. The loose leaf shelf comes in 100 g pouches, with caddies a few pounds more: English Breakfast (a West Java leaf), Earl Grey, Tippy Assam, Darjeeling and Jasmine at £10.95, Sencha Asagiri at £15.95, a Taiwanese Milk Oolong at £19.95 and Silver Needle at £19.95 for 50 g. The store page says access is through a single step and a narrow doorway, with a portable ramp on request.
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