Tea shops · Winnipeg, Canada
Tea shops · Winnipeg, CanadaAmsterdam Tea Room
An Exchange District tea cocktail bar, open from 4pm, where every one of its sixty-odd teas is CA$ 6 the cup and sold to take home by the 50 g.
It is the only shop on this page where you taste the tea in a cocktail before you buy the bag, and the take-home prices are printed right on the menu.
The Amsterdam Tea Room is at 103-211 Bannatyne Avenue, in the heart of the Exchange District, and it is a bar before it is a shop: it opens at 4pm every day, serves classic cocktails with a tea twist alongside small plates, and offers tea cocktail flights, online reservations and private bookings. What makes it belong on this page is the retail list. Every loose tea poured at the bar can be bought to take home, and the public menu prints a price per cup and prices for 50 g, 100 g and 200 g next to each one.
The list is grouped as black, green, fruit and herbal, matcha, maté, oolong, pu-erh, rooibos, wellness and white, and each entry states ingredients, origin, caffeine level, water temperature, steeping time and serving size. Every cup is CA$ 6. Take-home prices at 50 g run from CA$ 13 for rooibos and Nani's Masala Chai, through Assam at CA$ 14, Lapsang Souchong at CA$ 14.50, Iron Goddess of Mercy at CA$ 16, Sencha and Pai Mu Tan at CA$ 16.50, Darjeeling at CA$ 17 and a Jin Xuan milk oolong at CA$ 19.50, to Dragonwell at CA$ 21 and a ceremonial matcha at CA$ 46.
There is no web shop, so the bag is bought at the bar, and the same menu lists a few tools: a matcha whisk, a matcha bowl and loose-leaf filter bags by the hundred. The hours are a bar's hours, 4pm to midnight from Sunday to Thursday and until 1am on Friday and Saturday, which makes this the one tea counter in Winnipeg you can visit after the other two have closed. For a first visit, the flight is the sensible order: it puts three or four teas in front of you before you decide which 50 g to carry home.
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Where it is
Exchange District
103-211 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 3P2
Hours: Mon–Thu 16:00–00:00 · Fri–Sat 16:00–01:00 · Sun 16:00–00:00
What to buy here
Milk Oolong
Jin Xuan Milk Oolong
from CA$ 19.50 · 50 g
A Jin Xuan milk oolong, the cultivar that is naturally creamy without any flavouring added, and the tea on this menu that most people order a second cup of.
See our page on this tea →Lapsang Souchong
Lapsang Souchong
from CA$ 14.50 · 50 g
Pine-smoked Lapsang Souchong, the tea that makes the most sense in a cocktail bar, since it is the one the bartenders reach for when a drink wants smoke.
See our page on this tea →Masala Chai
Nani's Masala Chai
from CA$ 13 · 50 g
The house masala chai, with black tea, ginger and whole spices, and one of the cheapest bags on the list: the take-home tea to buy if you came for the cocktails and want something for the morning after.
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The one worth the trip
Dragonwell
from CA$ 21 · 50 g
An organic Dragonwell, the flat pan-fired green from Hangzhou, at CA$ 6 the cup and CA$ 21 the 50 g. Green tea is the category a bar usually gets wrong, so the argument for crossing town is to order it plain first, at the temperature the menu prints, and only then decide whether the bag comes home. If it does, the same leaf will hold up to three infusions in a pot.
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Open a tea to see who else sells it.
| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nani's Masala Chai | Chai | from CA$ 13 | 50 g |
| Rooibos | Rooibos | from CA$ 13 | 50 g |
| Assam Black | Black tea | from CA$ 14 | 50 g |
| Lapsang Souchong | Black tea | from CA$ 14.50 | 50 g |
| Iron Goddess of Mercy | Oolong tea | from CA$ 16 | 50 g |
| Sencha | Green tea | from CA$ 16.50 | 50 g |
| Pai Mu Tan | White tea | from CA$ 16.50 | 50 g |
| Darjeeling | Black tea | from CA$ 17 | 50 g |
| Jin Xuan Milk Oolong | Oolong tea | from CA$ 19.50 | 50 g |
| Dragonwell | Green tea | from CA$ 21 | 50 g |
| Ceremonial Matcha | Matcha | from CA$ 46 | 50 g |
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