Mariage Freres
Tea house · Covent Garden ·
French tea emporium with 1000+ teas, tea museum, tea room, restaurant
French tea emporium with 1000+ teas, tea museum, tea room, restaurant
"Tea, tea, tea pots, more tea. We’ve found the perfect gift for the tea fanatic in your life. Depending on which kind of circles you run in you’ll either be picturing your great-aunt or your best mate, but whoever it is, if they’re into a hot cuppa they’ll be into Mariage Frères. With everything from jasmine to darjeeling, this French emporium is basically the nirvana of tea. Don’t believe us? Head to their website, where you’ll quickly notice there’s a section purely dedicated to ‘tea paraphernalia’. We’re very into the oh-so-classy tea cosies, and we never thought we’d say this about some teapots, but their gold collection is très sexy. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Team Infatuation
"A five-storey Covent Garden flagship at 38 King Street that blends gilded tea ware and an aspirant haute-couture, 19th-century apothecary aesthetic with a tea museum, tea room and a restaurant in which every dish features tea. It boasts the world’s longest tea wall — a 1,200 sq m, weight-sold display of over 1,000 jewel-coloured loose-leaf teas from 36 countries — and highlights the proprietary 'Marco Polo' blend and a seafaring-inspired approach to tea discovery; the museum and period advertising underscore an unapologetically colonial brand history. The restaurant foregrounds classical Parisian café dining with tea-seasoned set breakfasts (scrambled eggs with matcha salt, smoked salmon with matcha fromage frais), pastries (a pink praline tartlet with tea-seasoned redcurrant confit), and mains such as a chicken supreme with a 'Smoky Leopard' black tea jus and the trademarked 'Snob Salad' — mesclun dressed with black tea, smoked salmon and toasts marbled with matcha and turmeric. The townhouse interior reads like a luxury French fashion store, with high ceilings, extravagant cornicing, island displays and pink lighting, and pricing to match (the 'Snob Salad' £28; a seasonal open sandwich £19)." - James Hansen
"A Parisian tea company whose individually sewn cotton bags supply the lemon verbena that figures in his domestic tea ritual; valued for light, herbal teas that he prefers to the traditional strong, milky British brew." - Paula Aceves
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