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TEA PLACES · 名店

Where to Drink Real Tea, City by City

A growing guide to the places worth seeking out — for real matcha, sencha, and the quiet ritual of a proper cup. Chosen with a practitioner's eye, mapped so you can find them, and written so you'll want to go. We start in New York. Los Angeles, Paris, and the old tea houses of Japan are on their way.

USA EUROPE JAPAN
USA

New York

The city's matcha scene has exploded — here is where the tea is actually taken seriously.

A bowl of freshly whisked matcha
MATCHA · 7 SPOTS
Where to Drink Real Matcha in New York

From a 30-year tea master's tatami room to the spot everyone lines up for — seven places for authentic, ceremonial-grade matcha, mapped and ranked.

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An iced matcha latte to go
MATCHA · 9 SPOTS
9 Trendy Matcha Shops You Can Take to Go

The buzziest matcha in New York right now — viral cafés, soft serve, and great lattes to grab and go. Mapped and reviewed.

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A Japanese tea cafe table with food
TEA & FOOD · 7 SPOTS
7 Cafés & Restaurants for Tea and a Meal

Where to sit down for real Japanese tea alongside a proper meal — from Showa-era omurice to afternoon tea.

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NEW YORK
More guides coming
Sencha & tea houses · newly opened spots · best for working
EUROPE

Paris & beyond

Coming soon — the matcha cafés and tea salons of Paris, and the cities where Japanese tea is finding a new home.

PARIS
In preparation
The best matcha & Japanese tea salons in Paris
EUROPE
More cities ahead
London · and beyond
JAPAN

The home of tea

Coming soon — the historic tea houses of Kyoto and Uji, the places Sen no Rikyū would have known, and the towns where Japanese tea and pottery were born.

KYOTO · UJI
In preparation
Historic tea houses & the roots of the tea ceremony
JAPAN
Tea & pottery towns
Where the leaf and the bowl come from