Tea House Theatre

Winner of Time Out Love London Awards 2014, 2016 & 2018!
Winner of the Best Closed Cafe Award 2020!

WELCOME TO THE TEA HOUSE THEATRE

Great news! Our tea subscription just landed! And we are offering a free UK delivery to all our tea subscribers. Have your favourite tea delivered every month for the whole year by buying it as a subscription.  With one simple purchase the cost of the tea will be debited every month and delivered to your door, so that you never run out.  One purchase, no worries and a constant supply of superb tea for whenever you need it.

And of course have a look at our range of excellent teas in our eTea shop if you want to buy just one off.

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We are based in an old Victorian public house that opened in 1886 on the site of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; immortalised as the ‘Vanity Fair’ in Thackeray’s eponymous novel.

We serve some of the best loose leaf teas available, proper sandwiches and homemade cakes; not to mention the best full English breakfast in London. Our teas have individual subtle flavours which would be overpowered by the instant, coarse, hit of coffee, so we do not sell it.

We make our own marmalade and jams, all for sale by the jar and all our teas can be bought by the ounce online (to view our range click here). Our meat comes from our local butcher and our fruit and vegetables from the local market gardens around us.

We are trying to be different. We will not hurry you. If you visit us on your lunch break, then have one, you will be more productive in the afternoon. If you want to have a meeting, we will not disturb you. If you are ‘working from home’, we have wifi. If you have children, we have highchairs, a chest of toys, and milkshakes. We always have the daily papers, so please, relax, and share in what we are trying to create, take a load off, and have a cuppa.

Subscription - Bi Luo Chun (4oz)

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Subscription - Bi Luo Chun (4oz)

£20.00 every month

Translated to mean “Green Snail Spring”. This one reigns from the Fujian Province of Eastern China. Beautiful medium sized twisted green and silver leaf. Best brewed with freshly drawn boiled water that has cooled for 2 minutes for 3-5 minutes. The liquor is pale with a delicate aroma and buttery character not dissimilar to Ti Kuan Yin. The name Biluochun literally means "green snail spring". It is called so because it is a green tea that is rolled into a tight spiral, resembling snail meat, and is harvested in early spring.Its original name is Xia Sha Ren Xiang "scary fragrance". The story goes that it was discovered by a tea picker who ran out of space in her basket and put the tea between her breasts instead. The tea, warmed by her body heat, emitted a strong aroma. According to the Qing Dynasty chronicle Ye Shi Da Guan, the Kangxi Emperor visited Lake Tai in the 38th year of his rule and decided to give it a more elegant name, "Green Snail Spring". Chinese tea experts regard it very highly. In his tea encyclopedia Cha Shuo, Zhen Jun ranked it first among Chinese green tea. Lung Ching “Dragonwell” came second. It is so delicate and tender that one pound of Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun consists of 60 to 80 thousand leaves.

This is a subscription service and is billed monthly. The billing period starts on the day of purchase and is billed every calendar month for a year, and renews after 12 months, unless you cancel your subscription by emailing us.

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