Melbourne might be known as a coffee city but here's where to find a properly brewed tea (and this cute snack)
If we're reading the leaves correctly, Melbourne's tea culture is entering its golden era. How do you take yours? Picked from the mountains of south-west China and steeped to a stopwatch? Sweet, spicy, and redolent of the bustling streets of Mumbai? Served with a scone and a finger sandwich? Which ever way, we've got you covered with Melbourne's best cafes for tea.
This list is part of Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025. Presented by T2, this guide celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods. (These reviews also live on the Good Food app, and are discoverable on the map.) Here's the tea.
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In a coffee-obsessed city, finding anywhere that serves more than five types of tea is exciting. This little Carlton cafe quietly showcases more than three times that number, spanning white to amber tea, selected carefully from renowned regions such as Yunnan and Kagoshima. Herbal tisanes are blended in-house, and beautiful servingware makes each sip an act of self-care.
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If we're reading the leaves correctly, Melbourne's tea culture is entering its golden era. How do you take yours? Picked from the mountains of south-west China and steeped to a stopwatch? Sweet, spicy, and redolent of the bustling streets of Mumbai? Served with a scone and a finger sandwich? Which ever way, we've got you covered with Melbourne's best cafes for tea. This list is part of Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025. Presented by T2, this guide celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods. (These reviews also live on the Good Food app, and are discoverable on the map.) Here's the tea. Assembly In a coffee-obsessed city, finding anywhere that serves more than five types of tea is exciting. This little Carlton cafe quietly showcases more than three times that number, spanning white to amber tea, selected carefully from renowned regions such as Yunnan and Kagoshima. Herbal tisanes are blended in-house, and beautiful servingware makes each sip an act of self-care.
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