Le Palais des Thés

I am not a tea person at all but my mum adores the tea from this place, she gets me to bring her some everytime i come to visit.
The staff are very helpful and the shop does always have nice free samples of different teas to try. They have a huge variety of different kinds of tea and any i’ve tried have always been really good. Id really recommend it for anyone with a remote interest in tea.

The coffee is fantastic i had my first ristretto and i am planning for a second visit to try their desserts.

I just come from Le Palais des Thés and OMG !
1* For the place: Clean and friendly, this place has a good vibe to it when you come in.
1* For the people: When I entered customers were being served. But the manager — it seemed to me he was — explained he would be back to me in a moment. He came back as promised very shortly. There were 2 other female staff in the shop and they were very friendly too !
1* For the teas: I wanted to try a particular type of tea. There was a huge shelf where all the teas were stored in big boxes. He had me smell 3 teas. I loved all of them but in the end I chose to buy only 2. Amazing smell out of the box and they are supposed to taste as good !
1* For the service: I asked for an infuser to go with the tea. At first they had only the round infuser to drop in the cup. But I wanted the open one that you put on the cup. Easier to use. He told he did’nt any anymore but went to check. And he found a prepared set with a tea box packaged with the infuser. He opened the package and wrapped the infuser for me to take. That was so unexpected ! :D
1* For the experience: Best tea shop I have ever been too. They were all very amiable and service was perfect. This positive experience makes me want to go back ! Also, I mentioned the tea was a present and so the manager wrapped everything nicely individually. I even got to chose the boxes in which to pack the teas I chose :)
I am so happy with this experience. I will definitely go back ! Please let me know what you thought :)

They have a large number of teas all with a sample for you to smell which I found very helpful. They also had a sample of tea to try near the door.

This shop is like heaven for anyone who loves tea! It has tea from all parts of the world, such as Japan, China, India etc., and they are sold by weight. It’s fun to sniff at all the different aromas and the gift sets look so pretty. You can also get free samples! I buy Sencha tea here since it’s the same as the one you get in Japan which I can’t find anywhere else, and the prices are pretty reasonable too. They do vary depending on the tea.
They sell some teaware such as tea pots, cups, strainers etc. as well as imports from Japan, which are a bit pricy though (over 100 euro for a teapot and 75 for a cup).
The staff are very friendly and helpful, providing great advice on all the types of tea.

This place has a large selection of green, black and white teas, so it is great if you’re looking for that!
If like me you’re looking for no caffeine teas then here you will only find blends of rooibos, good ones though! You can buy per gram and it costs around 8 € per 100grams.
Please let me know if you know any other place that has a different selection of non caffeine tea blends!

I love tea, so I was immediately drawn to Le Palais des Thés storefront. It’s a bright little store filled with rows of different tea packages and tea related paraphernalia, as well as some really beautiful jars and boxes.
As we entered we were greeted and offered five tea samples, two of which were from their Christmas specials.
Mmmm, they’re so good. I only tasted four but from the sample I believe all the teas in there must be delicious. Don’t dare taint them with loads of sugar or milk!
Such a lovely shop, very nice staff and excellent selection of teas.

This tea place was amazing! If you like tea, you would love this place! Some of the stuff is expensive, like the tea pots, but the tea itself and a good price for the quality. The staff are super friendly and helpful with our tea-​ignorant questions since we like tea, but don’t know much about it besides that. They have great boxes too that will be great for gifts! Highly recommend this place!

My friend at work recommended I have a look here when I said I was looking for vanilla tea and I’m so glad I treked down to it in the rain, so worth getting saturated for! The design of the shop is lovely, minimal and almost clinical which for me is a huge plus, and upon entry I was immediately offered a free (delicious) sample which I accepted gratefully having come in from the cold and rain. The girl who helped me was lovely, very friendly and really seemed to know her stuff. She wasn’t out to sell me something I didn’t want and she didn’t make me feel stupid for knowing nothing about tea so she scored well in my books! I was debating giving this place 4 stars but then I looked down and my big bag of really tasty tea and small pile for free samples I was given and decided they deserved the extra one. If nothing else, a visit to this place is an experience. Hugely recommended!

OK, so recently I wrote a review for House of Tea in the Swan Centre. Well as nice as that place is, it doesn’t remotely compare to the standard found in Le Palais des Thés. If you can imagine a L’Occitane store that sells teas and tea ware instead of soaps, that gives you a pretty good indication of what to expect.
A beautifully laid out shop with a vast selection of ancient and imaginative modern tea blends, all of which are available for a sniff test. At the door I was offered a free sample cup of malty Assam tea, which I sipped whilst browsing around. The quality of the pots, cups and caddies are the best you’ll find and make a unique gift for someone who already loves tea, or who you think might benefit from exploring it a bit more. Price wise it varies (one elaborately painted cherry bark caddy I saw was € 50), but you’ll find plenty in the € 20 price range.
I settled on a 100g bag of their best-​seller, a green tea with orange blossoms and various florals. I happened to be buying a gift for a particularly glamorous female, so I needed something flamboyant. It smelled like luxuriant bath salts and cost € 8.00, so I didn’t feel like I was skimping on her!
The two girls working in there were very professional and my purchase was wrapped and presented to me in an elegant paper bag, with plenty of free samples thrown in.
A great place, I’d definitely go back. My only complaint is that they don’t offer some kind of take away service as well. A cup of chai would’ve gone down a treat at that point, but it’s a shop not a café.

A wonderland of tea related stuff! I was blown away with the variety of teas on offer along with the parafanelia for the making of brews. I like the layout very easy to get around and see all the products available. I particularly am enamoured with the tea urn inside the entrance offering samples of tea on sale. A lovely addition to Dublin.

Aesthetically Pleasing colors and layout of the store. Many options for tea types and they have loose leaf as well as bag. The staff are also really helpful. Oh, and there are free samples.

This was a perfect pre-​holiday stop, not only for beautiful gift hampers for loved ones and randoms for whom I had no idea how to buy for, but also as a perfect stress reliever for myself.
Every variety got the full on sniff test and as a bonus Le Palais des Thés offered up enough samples to sip while browsing that Costco would be blushing.
The Christmas Teas (which no one seems to find as amusing as I) were gorgeous and I ended up buying as much for myself as I did for other people. How can you say no to black tea, red tea or green tea with orange, cinnamon, vanilla, rose and almond? Trick question: You can’t.

The layout of this shop is very clever and absorbing. A vast selection of teas are waiting for you to go discover.
I bought one of their Christmas gift sets, some vanilla inspired tea and a cute canister to hold it in and a mesh ball to put the leaves in.
The server was so helpful and after a bit of chatting it turns out that:
a) she loves Unilocal & uses it the whole time.
b) she worked last summer in the same store with my Parisian colleague’s sister.
Yup tis a small world especially when Unilocal is involved.

The place is neat, quasi clinical but great impression once you are in.
Choice is amazing and staff helpful if not particularly knowledgeable.
In fact, staff is quite odd looking punk-​style that give the place an interesting contrast (don’t be scared, polite and friendly punk !).
Best news is the prices, totally affordable even for the little tea accessories that will make your newly acquired loose tea leaves more practical to consume.
I’m off coffee for a while and could not be more happy to see these guys close to home…

As they say, tea is the cup of life, and shops like these truly enliven Dublin’s centre. The aromatic scent of tea-​leaves is amazingly welcoming, and it doesn’t hurt that the friendly tea-​lady gives you a free cup to sip on while you sniff through their many blends.
This is no Barry’s. These blends are luxury products, selected by tea experts who travel the world to find the perfect leaves, so prices are accordingly higher, from € 3 – 7 for 100g of tea from Sri Lanka and Africa to a steep € 46.95 for 100g of a Chinese white blend. Must be some magical fairy-​dust in the mix.
A nice cup of tea can cure all your troubles (at least for the moment you’re enjoying the cup), and with all the exciting selection here, you could be a happy champ for the rest of your life.

Irish people love a good cuppa cha more than most, yet we’re never hugely adventurous with our teas. It’s a standard Barry’s or Lyon’s gold blend for most, but there’s a world of teas where sticking half a bag of siucra isn’t the norm that many tea lovers never venture into.
I’m glad Palais de thés is around so, because I love herbal tea. Their stuff is lovely and fresh and they’ve great tea-​related paraphenalia.
Don’t put milk in though.

This little tea shop is bright and inviting with it’s cheery red and yellow façade and it’s happy French name — Palace of Teas. Oui, s’il vous plait!
Upon entering, customers are offered a generous sample of one of their fabulous teas and it’s enough of a serving to keep you sipping throughout your shopping experience. Their teas are lined up on the right side of the store; in front of each is a little card describing the origin, flavor and story of each tea. Then you can stick your nose in a cute little pot in front of the card to have a sniff for yourself. The fact is, all of the teas smell incredible. I had a hard time deciding. The teas are all priced differently; some are quite pricey, others quite affordable.
They allow you to sample any of the teas, not just the one at the front, which they scoop from big tin barrels. Tres cute! They also sell really beautiful gift sets, tins and tea pots that would make a really special gift for any tea-​lover.
The staff is very helpful and friendly. When I checked out, I got a little card on which they put stamps for each euro you spend. When you fill the card, you get 10% for a year. Wowe!!! I seriously love everything about this place!

A treasure trove for tea lovers the world over, Le Palais des Thés is a French company that has recently opened in the heart of Dublin’s café district.
Personally sourcing loose leaf teas from as far as Japan, Malaysia and Africa, the expert tea team in charge of this company is intent on providing the best quality tea without compromising the excellent business ethics they uphold. Promoting fair trade and lasting business relationships with smaller planters and steering clear of the traps of child and forced labour, Le Palais des Thés sources the best ingredients for their teas through fair business operations.
Ethics aside, the tea is amazing! Nip in for a sample of the daily special (when I was there it was ‘Theophile’ — a green tea blend infused with lychee, mango and lotus flower). Of course I was sold on the spot!
Delicious, calming, aromatic. Whatever it is about tea that has you hooked will most certainly appeal to your senses in this store. Every flavour has a sample for the smelling, and the sales assistants are more than happy to help you find the perfect blend. And they’re very generous with the tea samples, always encouraging you to try more (but believe me, the sample idea really works… I came in strictly as a browser and left as a proud tea owner!)
Also on sale are gift packs and some glorious tea pots, great for gift ideas or if you want to make your tea drinking ritual a very special experience.

Tea Drinkers Unite!!!
Just dropped into this place last weekend. I had to be dragged out by my husband before I overspent.
You will be greeted with an amazing array of tea. A tea drinkers heaven!
Ah will ya have a cup of tea… ah Go on! Go on! Go on!