Tea shops · Canada
Tea shops · CanadaOur favorite tea shops in Ottawa
3 places we'd send a friend to.
Ottawa has one classic walk-in tea shop, in the ByWard Market since 1996, open seven days and selling everything by the 100 g, and a single-origin specialist that has just moved to Colonnade Road near Hunt Club and sells online with curbside pickup while the new shop is fitted out. Day to day, loose leaf also comes through the city's coffee roasters: Bridgehead's seventeen coffeehouses stock its own 50 g tins at a flat price, and Equator's six cafés carry Rishi one-pound bags and Genuine Tea matcha. Prices on this page run from CA$ 6 for 50 g of yerba mate to CA$ 45 for 100 g of Silver Needle or jasmine pearls.
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Teastore
ByWard Market (York Street) · 53 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 9B7
In storeShips onlineHours: Monday to Sunday 10am to 8pm· 32 pricesA specialty tea shop at 53 York Street that has been part of the ByWard Market since 1996, with around 370 products sold loose, in sachets or as blooming teas, and every loose tea priced per 100 g: Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Irish and Scottish Breakfast, Keemun Panda, a Nepal Ilam and a Kenya Kambaa estate tea at CA$ 15, Organic Assam, Ceylon, Darjeeling, Sencha Fuji, Gunpowder, Genmaicha, chai, chamomile, rooibos and green yerba mate at CA$ 16, Ti Kuan Yin at CA$ 20, Pai Mu Tan at CA$ 24, Dragonwell, Golden Monkey and Milk Oolong at CA$ 30, Gyokuro Asahi at CA$ 34, Wuyi Rock Oolong at CA$ 42 and Silver Needle and Jasmine Dragon Pearls at CA$ 45; an organic Japanese matcha comes in a 113 g sealed bag at CA$ 40. You can sit and drink tea in the shop, with a patio from May to October, and local Ottawa pickup is offered; shipping is within Canada only, free over CA$ 100.
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Bridgehead
17 coffeehouses across the city (Glebe, Centretown, Wellington West, Westboro, Little Italy roastery) · 750 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 3V6 (Glebe)
In storeShips online· 6 pricesOttawa's coffee roaster, with seventeen coffeehouses across the city from 750 Bank Street in the Glebe to the roastery and coffeehouse at 130 Anderson Street off Preston, sells its own loose-leaf line in 50 g tins at a flat CA$ 9.98: Cream of Earl Grey, Organic Assam Breakfast, Organic Sencha Kyoto, Imperial Jasmine and Organic Masala Chai, with 500 g refills, plus a ceremonial Kato Matcha from Uji at CA$ 29.95 the 40 g tin. Orders over CA$ 45 ship free within Canada.
Website: bridgehead.caOpen in Maps03
Equator Coffee Roasters
Westboro café; also Barrhaven, Kanata, Centrum, Gloucester and the NAC · 412 Churchill Ave N, Ottawa, ON K1Z 5C6
In storeShips onlineHours: Westboro café: Monday to Saturday 7am to 5pm; Sunday 8am to 5pm· 5 pricesA fair-trade coffee roaster founded in 1998 whose six Ottawa cafés, from 412 Churchill Avenue North in Westboro to Barrhaven, Kanata, Centrum, Gloucester and the National Arts Centre, stock Rishi loose leaf in one-pound bags: Organic Earl Grey at CA$ 52.99, Wild Thai black and Masala Chai at CA$ 48.99 and Jade Cloud green at CA$ 61.25, plus Genuine Tea's Kato spring-harvest matcha at CA$ 35.99 the 30 g. Orders over CA$ 60 ship free in Ontario and Quebec.
Website: equator.caOpen in Maps
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