Pahar & Pyala
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Our teas are grouped by when they are picked. Choose a season to pour its teas to the top of the menu.
Each tea comes from one garden and one pluck. The tin says where it grew, how high, and how long to steep it.
12Teas shown
2,100 m
No. 01First Flush
Kesari Ridge garden · 100 g tin
The first pluck of spring from our highest rows. Pale gold in the glass, with green mango and a crisp, almost peppery finish.
1,850 m
No. 02First Flush
Lingtse garden · 100 g tin
Young clonal bushes picked in early April. Lemony, light and quick to steep — the one we pour first thing in the tea room.
2,250 m
No. 03First Flush
Upper Dhuwa garden · 50 g tin
Picked before dawn and withered in the cold. Soft and honeyed, with a floral note that opens on the second steep.
1,600 m
No. 04Second Flush
Sitong garden · 100 g tin
Summer leaf with the grape-skin muscatel note the hills are known for. Amber-copper, round and long.
1,450 m
No. 05Second Flush
Pahari Ban garden · 100 g tin
Forest-edge bushes and a fuller leaf: a toasty cup with a little stone fruit. Good with milk, better without.
1,200 m
No. 06Second Flush
Barahdhura garden · 200 g pouch
Our strongest cup, from the low valley rows. Malty and brisk; brew it long and add milk.
2,300 m
No. 07White & Oolong
Upper Dhuwa garden · 30 g tin
Only the unopened buds, dried slowly in the sun. A pale straw cup, sweet like cucumber and fresh hay.
1,750 m
No. 08White & Oolong
Lekhgaon garden · 50 g tin
Rolled by hand and rested overnight. Peach and toasted rice, and four good steeps from one spoonful.
1,950 m
No. 09White & Oolong
Kesari Ridge garden · 50 g tin
A lightly oxidised oolong, green-gold and buttery, with orchid on the nose.
1,100 m
No. 10Monsoon & Autumn
Barahdhura garden · 200 g pouch
Picked between the rains. A deep, honest cup with a breath of wood smoke — the tea room’s everyday pot.
1,350 m
No. 11Monsoon & Autumn
Sitong garden · 100 g tin
The cool October pluck. Russet in the glass, nutty and mellow, with a dried-apricot finish.
900 m
No. 12Monsoon & Autumn
Pahari Ban garden · 100 g tin
Autumn black tea with dried rhododendron petals from the forest above the garden. Soft and floral, for after dinner.
Nothing from this flush right now.
Every tea is picked on the same ridge, from 900 m in the valley to 2,300 m under the cloud line. Choose a point on the hill to see its tea.
Kesari Ridge First Flush
Every tea has its own water and its own minutes. Choose one, warm the glass and start the timer.
Rinse the glass or pot with hot water, so the first steep does not cool before it starts.
About 2.5 g — a heaped teaspoon — for every 200 ml. Silver buds are bulky; use two.
Fresh water at the temperature on the tin. For anything below 90 °C, let a boiled kettle rest a few minutes.
Start the timer, then pour every drop off the leaf. Whites and oolongs give a second, longer steep.
The tea room is up the steps from Rongtse bazaar. Write to us about a tea, a box of tins as a gift, or a tasting for your café.
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