Tea shops · Sheffield, United Kingdom
A city-centre blender whose shelves read like a map of Sheffield, with a tea bar on Sidney Street open from nine every day of the week.
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The house
Birdhouse blends its own tea on Sidney Street and sells it across a counter that doubles as a tea bar and kitchen. The house conceit is local: a Sheffield collection with blends named Kelham Island, Peace Gardens and Full Monty, and a Peak District collection next to it with Blue John and Duchess Georgiana. The names are not decoration — they are how the range is organised, and they tell you immediately that this is a blender with a place rather than an importer with a catalogue.
The pricing is unusually flat and unusually easy to plan around. A mini bag is 2,95 £, the regular bag is 5,00 £ and the large is 9,00 £ across almost the entire range; what changes is the weight behind the label, because a light herbal fills more volume per gram than a dense black leaf. So the regular bag is 75 g for English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Lapsang Souchong, sencha and rooibos, 60 g for most of the Sheffield blends, and 50 g for the pure chamomile and peppermint.
Behind the named blends there is a straight classics shelf, which is what makes the shop usable rather than just charming: English Breakfast, Earl Grey and a decaf version of the first, Lapsang Souchong, a Japanese sencha, pure rooibos and a house chai, all at the same 5,00 £. The tea bar pours the same range by the cup from nine in the morning, seven days a week, and the kitchen closes an hour before the room does.
Sheffield · United Kingdom
Sidney St, Sheffield S1 4RG
Published hours: Monday to Friday 9:00–16:00 · Saturday and Sunday 9:00–17:00 (kitchen closes an hour earlier)
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The FindMeTea edit
01 · Black tea
A black blend named after the old industrial quarter, and the one to take home as the souvenir. It comes in a 20 g mini bag too, which is the right size for a present you are not sure about.
from £ 5· 60 g
02 · Black tea
The classics shelf at its most uncompromising: pine-smoked leaf at the same flat price as the breakfast blend, in a 75 g bag. Buy the mini first if you have never had one — it divides a room.
from £ 5· 75 g
Explore this tea →03 · Rooibos
Plain rooibos with nothing added, in the 75 g bag. It is the one thing on the shelf you can hand to somebody at ten at night without a second thought.
from £ 5· 75 g
Explore this tea →The one worth the trip
The blend that carries the city's most exported phrase, and the only one on the list we would send somebody across Sheffield for. It is a strong black blend in the Yorkshire idiom, sold in a 75 g regular bag and in a 300 g bulk bag that works out cheaper per gram than almost anything else the shop sells. Drink it the local way — hard water, short steep, a splash of milk — and buy the big bag if it lands.
from £ 5· 75 g
Prices
Prices are indicative. Each price keeps its currency and pack size; this selection does not necessarily cover the house's complete range.
12 prices
| Tea | Type | Price / pack |
|---|---|---|
| English Breakfast | Black tea | from £ 575 g |
| Earl Grey | Black tea | from £ 575 g |
| Lapsang Souchong | Black tea | from £ 575 g |
| Full Monty | Black tea | from £ 575 g |
| Decaf English Breakfast | Black tea | from £ 550 g |
| Kelham Island | Black tea | from £ 560 g |
| Sencha | Green tea | from £ 575 g |
| Pure Chamomile | Herbal infusion | from £ 550 g |
| Pure Peppermint | Herbal infusion | from £ 550 g |
| Pure Rooibos | Rooibos | from £ 575 g |
| Vanilla Gelato Rooibos | Rooibos | from £ 575 g |
| House Chai | Chai | from £ 575 g |
Indicative prices, with each product’s pack size. Prices may change; check with the shop. Price verification dates: 2026-09-22.
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