Top Tea houses in Shanghai

A heritage destination for all visitors to Shanghai, offering the finest tea experiences and elegant evening cocktails. Famed for its traditional high tea indulgence, Jasmine Lounge offers all sorts of delightful savories, freshly baked buttermilk scones with homemade fruit preserves and clotted cream, tea sandwiches and French pastries, presented on tiered silver tea stands. Located in on the Ground Floor lobby. Saturday Tea Dance is a tradition that the founder Victor Sassoon brought in with the Afternoon Tea while people can also enjoy dancing with the live entertainment, to bring you back to the 30’ and 40’s era.

This is the oldest tea house in Shanghai. It is a big pavilion in the middle of an artificial lake in the Yu Garden. This Yuyuan tea house, linked to the lakeshore by Jiuqu Bridge, was originally built in 1784 and became a teahouse in 1855. The long Huxinting tea house history attracts many political leaders and celebrities from all over the world. Here you can have high-class tea and delicious snacks such as preserved plums and small glutinous rice dumplings.

It is one of the popular tea places in Shanghai, offering quality tea. You can also taste distinctive soup mixed with tea and snacks from other parts of the world.

Tianshan is a giant multi-level complex devoted to tea. The market hosts around 150 stalls selling thousands of varieties of leaves. Walk into almost any of these shops and soon enough you'll be sitting with a small cup, infusion after infusion being poured out for you to try.