Izlah Tea Bar.

Izlah designs its own blends of tea and infusions and serves them four ways, hot, as a tea latte, iced and as the Frapptea its site calls its own invention. The bars sit in shopping centres and street corners across the west and south of the city: Antara and Masaryk 360 in Polanco, WTC in Nápoles, Arcos Bosques and Bosques de Duraznos, Centro Santa Fe, Oasis Coyoacán and Pedregal, with two more in Interlomas and one in Satélite in the State of Mexico. Every blend on the menu is also sold loose, and the online shop delivers free in the city above MX$ 1,299.

The catalogue is sorted into collections with travel names. Orient Express holds the pure teas, Sencha and Golden Monkey at MX$ 360 per 50 g, Jade Oolong at MX$ 325, Jasmine Oolong and a Pu'Er at MX$ 305, Menta Marroquí at MX$ 250; Kyoto Memories has the flavoured teas, Earl Grey Creme, Thai Tea, Black Banana; Chai Charm runs from a Masala Chai to a white-tea chai called New Delhi Cious; Pateasserie, Beach Club and 4 Every Berry are the dessert and fruit tisanes. Every size is labelled with how many cups it makes, from ten for 50 g to three hundred for a kilo.

The matcha collection is sold in tins rather than bags: a ceremonial-grade matcha at MX$ 1,099 for 80 g and a roasted Houjicha at MX$ 600 for the same 80 g. A Lemongrass that the site describes as one hundred per cent lemongrass starts at 100 g, and Javavana Mate mixes black tea with roasted Brazilian mate, cacao and vanilla. Tins, kits, thermoses, cups and teapots fill the accessories page, the bars take events, and the newsletter gives twenty per cent off a first order. At the time of writing the drinkable range is thirty-seven products.