Tea shops · United States
Tea shops · United StatesOur favorite tea shops in San Diego
4 places we'd send a friend to, with prices we checked ourselves.
San Diego spreads its leaf across four neighbourhoods and four completely different ways of buying it: by the gram in Ocean Beach, by the ounce in Liberty Station, in 40 g pouches in Kearny Mesa and in 56 g halves in La Jolla. The entry price runs from $8 for a 10 g gongfu session to $45 for a tin of stone-milled matcha, and three of the four shops source their single origins directly.
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La Jolla (Girard Ave) · 7441 Girard Ave, Suite B, San Diego, CA 92037
In storeShips onlineHours: Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm· 6 verified pricesA La Jolla shop at 7441 Girard Ave that stopped serving drinks in 2024 to concentrate on retail leaf, matcha and teaching. Founded in 2017 after its owners' trips through Japan, it buys single-origin lots direct from farmers in Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and China and stone-mills its matcha in house on a Kyoto mill. Earl Grey Lavender, Misty Shou and Coconut Chai are $18, Mainichi everyday sencha $24 the 85 g, the Dong Ding 12 reserve $24 the 56 g and a 30 g tin of 10K ceremonial matcha $45. A Sunday farmers' market on the street makes parking harder.
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Point Loma Tea
Liberty Station, Point Loma (Barracks 14) · 2770 Historic Decatur Rd, San Diego, CA 92106
In storeShips onlineHours: Closed Monday; Tuesday and Wednesday 11am to 5pm; Thursday 11am to 6pm; Friday and Saturday 11am to 7pm; Sunday 11am to 6pm· 6 verified pricesAt 2770 Historic Decatur Rd, in Liberty Station's Barracks 14, since 2012 and among the first tenants of that block of shops and galleries. Everything is sold in 1, 2, 4 and 8 oz, so it is the easiest place in the city to buy a single ounce of a classic and move on: Earl Grey Grand, English Breakfast and Rooibos Roasted are $10 the ounce, Chamomile Blossom $11, Ti Kuan Yin $14 and Dragonwell $16. The catalogue runs to some 360 teas plus a large teaware section, and there is a tearoom for tastings.
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Camellia Rd
Kearny Mesa (Clairemont Mesa Blvd) · 8199 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Ste H, San Diego, CA 92111
In storeShips onlineHours: Every day, 11am to 10pm· 6 verified pricesA tea bar at 8199 Clairemont Mesa Blvd in Kearny Mesa, established 2017, built around craft boba but selling the same leaf it brews with — all single origin from China, Taiwan, Japan, India and Sri Lanka, in 40 g and 100 g pouches. The cheapest of the four by some way: India Earl Grey is $8 the 40 g, Sri Lanka Ceylon $8.50, China Sticky Rice puer $9.50, and China Jasmine, Floral Tie Guan Yin and Yue Guang Bai white $10 each. It is also the only one open until 10pm.
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T.E.A. The Eternal Art
Ocean Beach (Santa Monica Ave) · 4966 Santa Monica Ave #C, San Diego, CA 92107
In storeShips online· 6 verified pricesA teahouse at 4966 Santa Monica Ave, inside an artisan gallery a block from the Ocean Beach shore, whose owners travel to tea regions and buy direct from cultivators. Everything is sold by the gram from 10 g up, so a single gongfu session of something rare costs what a cup costs elsewhere: Genmaicha is $8 the 10 g; Dragon Well, the Honey Orchid dan cong and White Peony $12.50; Golden Eyebrow and the Gold Sun shou puer $15. It also sells handmade teaware and runs side-by-side tasting ceremonies. No hours are published, so phone ahead.
Also worth a visit
- Tea Bazaar · Little Italy · 1774 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101No online prices yet
A Little Italy storefront with more than a hundred teas and published pack sizes, but its shop renders every price in the browser, so no price string exists in the page we can read and re-check. Visit website →
- Herb Shoppe · City Heights · 3618 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92104No online prices yet
Bulk herbs and teas from jars at the same address since 1969. There is no online catalogue, so we have no prices to quote here.
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