In busy, buzzy Soho is the Bun House & Tea Room. Upstairs is a steamy street-food-style cafe serving Chinese steamed buns and large pots of oolong. Downstairs is a Hong Kong-style speakeasy, lit with neon green Cantonese lettered lights, it's a fun throwback to 1960's Hong Kong tea rooms and serves cocktails and a much longer tea list . . .

Tuesday Tea Tasting Just opened but already super busy is tombo Poké & Matcha Bar in Soho. Having never tried the green stuff before, but always intrigued by it, I headed to tombo during their opening week to see what all they hype was about. With a queue out the door (a 50% off opening offer will do that) tombo's new spot was taking orders thick and fast but the staff were friendly and calm. I went for a long, hot matcha tea (there's a long list to choose from so I went for what look the...

With all the coffee shops in Soho it's so refreshing to know that tea lovers have a place dedicated to their loose leaf needs! Yumchaa does this perfectly - it's got the cool Soho vibe but knows its stuff when it comes to a lovely cuppa. I've visited their Camden location before (see previous blog post) but when the London Local Etsy team said they were meeting there, well I wasn't going to not go! I love that they have all their loose leaves out in jars for you to see (and smell). And because...

Kingly Street near Oxford Circus is not where I would normally head for a cuppa but alongside the bars and pubs is the appropriately named Urban Tea Rooms. The interior design of white tiles and wooden benches certainly gives it an urban feel but the tea list from the cornish countryside of Tregothnan Tea Plantation was what I had come here for. They say: ‘Grown in the perfect conditions on our ancient Cornish estate, the world’s first true English tea has been heralded as the ‘new...