Specialty Teahouses in Shanghai

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12 teahouses

Shanghai

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Amanyangyun Bei Teahouse (安缦养云 北茶室)

A tea ceremony hidden inside a camphor forest.

Aman's tea house at the Sheshan resort, housed in a Kerry Hill-designed pavilion inside the transplanted camphor forest and Ming-Qing courtyards of Yangyun village. Seasonal tastings led by a resident tea master, and non-residents can book through the hotel.

Minhang$$$

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Bannong 半濃

Hidden Changle Road lane house. Appointment only.

Lane-house tea room on Changle Road combining tea, vegetarian food, teaware, traditional snacks and curios. Founded by a tea-and-craft community, appointment-only, and rarely promoted online. One sitting can easily run into an afternoon.

Jing'an (Changle Road)$$$

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Canghai Wenhui 沧海文会

A 1940s villa devoted to Wuyi rock tea, white and puer.

Inside Yi Yuan, a 1940s villa compound in the former French Concession. Focused on Min and Tai oolong (Wuyi yancha, Tieguanyin), aged white tea, and puer. Scholarly room built for serious tasting rather than passing trade.

Xuhui (former French Concession)$$$

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Chan Bian Tea Room 禅边茶室

A three-floor wall of aged tea, devoted to Tibetan dark.

Converted factory across three floors (Water Zen / Earth Zen / Heaven Zen) with a three-storey wall of aged tea. Specialises in Tibetan dark tea (zang cha), an intangible-cultural-heritage hei cha rarely served in city teahouses. Private rooms named Chu Chan, Fu Sheng, Ru Meng, Bo Re, Wang Yue.

Xuhui (Huaihai Road)$$

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Chanye Tea House (蝉野茶馆)

Cicadas on the rooftop, old trees in the pot.

A five-storey 1930s villa off Huaihai Middle Road, keeping the old rosewood staircase and adding a rooftop terrace that has become a Xiaohongshu regular. Menu leans into aged puer, old shou mei and Da Hong Pao by the pot.

Xuhui$$

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Dake Tang Pu'er Club 大可堂普洱会所

Three storeys of aged puer inside a 1933 Shanghai villa.

Three-storey 1933 French-style garden villa devoted to aged puer, founded by collector Zhang Qiming. Private rooms named after puer origins and a library of vintage cakes on the ground floor.

Xuhui (former French Concession)$$$

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Gongshengtang (共生堂)

Drink tea beside the pot that made it.

A two-storey tea house inside a park courtyard on Kaixuan Road, doubling as a private gallery for Yixing purple clay from the Li family kiln. Chinese afternoon tea by the pot, with tasting flights in the second-floor private rooms.

Changning$$

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Jiushiye Matcha (九十叶·抹茶)

Order your matcha by grade, like an espresso.

A dedicated matcha counter on the B2 of Xintiandi Plaza, grading matcha from level 1 to level 5 so you choose the strength before it is whisked. Uji stone-ground powder, matcha shots, lattes and small tasting flights.

Huangpu$

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Shan Yu Cao She (山余草舍)

A Jiangnan garden folded inside a Fuxing Road lane.

A Suzhou-style private garden inside the Rose Villa lane on Fuxing West Road, with covered corridors, rockery and antique tea vessels arranged by the owner. Small pot service, house calligraphy on the walls, and a resident cat wandering the courtyard.

Xuhui$$$

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Tianshan Tea City (天山茶城)

One building, most of the Chinese tea world.

Three-floor tea market with 150-plus vendors selling every major Chinese tea and the teaware to brew it. Most stalls invite you to sit at a wooden stool and taste through a few grades before you buy, so it works as a retail visit and an informal tasting tour at once.

Changning$$

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Yan Zizai (晏·自在)

Rare leaves, Song tea whisks, one owner picking every pot.

Owner Yan Ping's private tea salon on Fuxing West Road, with a small courtyard of banana leaves and rockery. Rare teas from her personal cellar and occasional Song-dynasty dian cha demonstrations by tea-ceremony instructor Han Zheming.

Xuhui$$$

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Zhiliao Tea House 知了茶馆

An unsigned gallery-teahouse hybrid near Hengshan Road.

Teahouse and gallery hybrid near Hengshan Road with no signage, entered through a planted courtyard. A series of small tasting rooms with rotating contemporary art, kept quiet and uncommercial.

Xuhui (Hengshan Road area)$$