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Tea shops inMar del Plata.

Mar del Plata has one tea house that is also a blend factory, OrienTés on Avenida Jara, with more than 50 loose teas and infusions, a tea room, workshops and factory visits; its imported teas sell by 25 g, from AR$ 5.000 for a Chinese oolong or Japanese sencha to AR$ 13.270 for Darjeeling. The rest of the city's tea is in its dietéticas: Dietética del Puerto inside Mercado Puerto, with tea bags, loose herbs and gluten-free yerbas, and Almacén Aurelia, with two shops and a shelf of organic yerba mate from Misiones.

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01Loose-leaf specialist
OrienTés
Av. Jara 561, tea room, shop and blend factory
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OrienTés
Av. Jara 561, Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata's tea house and blend factory in one: more than 50 loose teas and infusions, a tea room, workshops and factory visits on Avenida Jara.
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Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 1pm and 4:30pm to 8:30pm (summer); 9:30am to 1pm and 4pm to 8pm (winter)
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A family business opened in 2015 by Lucía Rosario Malbernat, an international tea sommelier, with a tea room, a shop and a registered blend factory at Av. Jara 561. Imported teas sell loose by 25 g (Ceylon Supreme AR$ 8.160, Earl Grey AR$ 8.660, Pai Mu Tan AR$ 12.980, Darjeeling AR$ 13.270, Chinese matcha from AR$ 17.000 for 50 g), the house blends on Argentine black and green tea start at AR$ 4.000 for 25 g or come in glass jars, and there is a drawer of single herbs from manzanilla to marcela. Workshops, tastings and factory visits run monthly; shipping nationwide by Correo Argentino.
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Website: orientes.com.ar
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Dietética del Puerto
Edison 465, Mar del Plata
A family dietética of more than 25 years inside Mercado Puerto, at Edison 465, with a tea shelf of Argentine brands: Greenhills black tea bags from AR$ 2.255 for 25, IntiZen Inti Grey at AR$ 5.885 for 15, Jesper and Saint Gottard green tea bags, Ricco loose-leaf jars (chai, jasmine green) at AR$ 12.045, loose chamomile, mint and cedrón by 50 g, and gluten-free yerbas from Playadito at AR$ 3.399 for 500 g. Pickup at the shop, delivery across the city and Correo Argentino nationwide.
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Website: dieteticadelpuerto.mitiendanube.com
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Almacén Aurelia
Av. Luro 3009 and Córdoba 4293 (esq. Vieytes), Mar del Plata
A natural-foods almacén with two shops, Av. Luro 3009 downtown and Córdoba 4293 at the corner of Vieytes, whose tea corner is mostly herbs and yerba: loose chamomile AR$ 3.250, cedrón AR$ 2.000, hibiscus AR$ 1.900 and rosa mosqueta AR$ 2.650 per 50 g, Heredia chamomile bags at AR$ 6.000 for 25, and organic yerba mate from La Obereña (AR$ 6.500), Gurisa (AR$ 6.400) and Tucanguá (AR$ 11.500 per kilo).
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Av. Luro 3009: Monday to Saturday 9am to 8pm; Córdoba 4293: Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 1pm
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Website: almacenaurelia.mitiendanube.com
- ChamomileTé de Manzanilla Heredia x 25 saquitosAR$ 6,000 · 25 bags
- MateYerba Mate Orgánica La Obereña (500 g)AR$ 6,500 · 500 g