Tea Garden

From the outside the tea garden does not look like much, nor does it look like it fits more than 5 people when you walk in, however upstairs offers plenty of room and a bit of privacy as well.
The service was lovely and the tea was good. I loved the pot and the tea cups it was served in.
If you like tea check out this place for sure. The menu was like a book so plenty of options.

Go inside an chill… In the heart of the city of Dublin in the middle of allnthe traffic jams there’s a place where you can forget the noise and the stress and this place is tea garden. Here you can enjoy a huge selection of teas and infusions while you are chilling in a fancy space.

I have been to many shisha places all around the world. This was by far the best. Me and a friend were on a day trip /​all day bender in Dublin our bellies full of Guinness Jameson’s and abrakebabra Ok that’s a lie I just wanted to say abrakebabra one more time .Our legs completely gone with too much walking and too much booze. We had been up since 4 am and drinking for about 12 hours straight. This place was the best decision we had made that day. The tea and hookah were «incredible» and the atmosphere was so chill we almost fell into a shisha coma. Ordered apple and cocktail which were both amazing and smoked really well the tea was a green mint tea … So good I could have drank 10 Potts, spoke to who I thought was the owner super cool guy.

What a great place that is! Perfect if you’re looking for a quite place to catch up with your friends or for a date. Tea selection is superb. They also doing some snacks. The only thing they are missing is to have maybe some cakes on the menu. Highly recommend!

Definitely a different Tea drinking experience. The service leaves a little to be desired but, it does take quite some time to decide which of the 100 plus teas you’re going to sample.
All the teas come in their own little teapots so you can share with friends. There is a lovely chill atmosphere and a good selection of boardgames if you’re feeling up to it.
I haven’t tried the sheesha or the food but I’ve heard both are decent if you don’t mind waiting.

I enjoy coming here to relax with friends. While the tea isn’t to my liking (I’m more of a coffee fan) my friends do enjoy it a lot. They have a great menu with many types of tea.

Ah this place is only lovely. I’ve been meaning to get here for AGES, and wandering around yesterday with my laptop looking for a place to work, it dawned on me to give it a try. So, some observances:
— They have one room downstairs that looks out into a gorgeous meditation garden — that was my fave
— The wifi is really not good. I ended up tethering from my phone, and had to go upstairs to do this, as you don’t get much signal downstairs
— It seems it hasn’t been done up in a while — it’s a little tired around the edges, but only if you really look. Generally, once you get in here, you’re transported into tranquility, with their lovely plingy-​plongy music and hushed speaking voices
— Unless you’re near the fish tank upstairs, which sounds like it may be on it’s last legs!!!
— The tea list is immense — have a chat with the workers and they will figure out something suitable for you. I tried one of the Darjeeling multiple infusion ones, and it was amazing.
— I loved the ceremony with which it’s served, gorgeous
— Staff are lovely and welcoming.
To summise, it’s a little tatty round the edges, but honestly, also perfectly delightful if you don’t look tooo close :-)

I was introduced to Tea Garden many years ago.
Four of us ended up there this time, happy to find a place where it is possible to have a conversation without having to shout over ambient music.
Tea Garden proved a success, even the more sceptical amongst us gave it a thumbs up. After all, we left a fancy pub for a tea place, bit of a gamble on a Saturday evening!
We all got different teas and got to sample from each other — perfect. They were all so different and so good. Who knew hot water brewed with herbs could taste so nice?
The best thing about Tea Garden is how relaxed it feels — nobody ever rushes you out of the way and there is a definite thrill to being able to (having to) kick off one’s shoes and sit on the carpet.
Thumbs up!

Normally I like the tea garden but I am going to write a scalding review of it. Today I just had a very bad experience. I went there to kill some time and I knew it would be busy as it is always busy on Saturdays. We ordered the tried and tested favourite, the masala tea. the waitress told us it would be fifteen minutes as it was busy and we thought that was fine. It took forty five minutes to arrive by which point I almost had to leave to go to a prior engagement. I had five minutes, ten if I rushed, to drink half a pot of extremely hot and quite expensive tea. I asked the waitress when my ten minutes was up if there was any way I could bring some of it with me (I know it’s usually not done but I thought it was worth a try given the circumstances). She was very unhelpful and I’m not really sure she understood what I was asking her.
Anyway, I do usually like it in here but the service wasn’t great today of all days and they weren’t apologetic about it either. I do recognise that it was an unusual request though.

The Tea Garden is a little heaven of tranquillity in the middle of Dublin city centre’s craziness.
Going down to the basement you feel like you’re entering some kind of secret place. It’s like being transported somewhere in Asia, surrounded with bamboo décor and oriental music.
There is a huge range of tea from around the world and small snacks (muffins, nuts…) are available for purchase. Staff will give you some helpful advice if you need it, since the tea menu can be a bit intimidating at first. They’re not always the quickest but you easily forgive them, it must be the zen vibes of the place: they even whisper when they talk to you!
There are lots of different rooms and the one I love the most is on the upper floor, where you sit on the ground on some cushions in small, private partitions (minimum charge € 10 for this area).
Beside being popular for being a tea place, they’re known for their sheeshas (shishas), an oriental pipe originally used for smoking flavoured tobacco. Groups of people sometimes gather and smoke it there, the smell is lovely.
Prices aren’t cheap in the Tea Garden but you feel as if you are in an oasis away from the crowds and that’s worth spending a couple of euros more!

I love, love, love this place. One of my favorite spots in Dublin. It’s so relaxing and chill; they do tea and hookah (shisha, they call it here), and no alcohol. You sit Japanese-​style on cushions, and there’s this zen music and a general sense of well-​being and calmness. It’s a really nice alternative to the normal pub scene and it’s way better than the normal dingy hookah bar you’d find in the States.
The menu is enormous, with, I’d guess, over sixty teas. The tea comes in a small pot big enough for two people, which is between 5 & 10 euros. I’ve had the rooibos, which wasn’t great (normally I like rooibos, but this had a funny sickly sweet aftertaste), and a jasmine green tea, which was really lovely, light and crisp. The hookah is 10 euros, and comes in a variety of standard flavors (apple, peach, rose, vanilla, watermelon, etc… the usual, I guess.)
The Tea Garden keeps a pile of board games and cards downstairs. So you can play Scrabble as you lounge with your tea and hookah. Honestly, it’s just so chill and fun. Go with a bunch of friends and the hours just sort of disappear in there. It’s hard to get in and out in under two hours, I think.
Why not five stars? First of all, there’s no food, which is frustrating — you can get biscuits and «salty sticks», which turned out to be just pretzels sticks, but nothing more filling than that. And secondly, the service is terrible. The first time I went, my friends and I waited over twenty minutes without anyone coming to take our order; when my friend went downstairs to investigate, she found the woman who had shown us our seats asleep by the bathroom. Okay. It takes them close to fifteen minutes to bring you a pot of tea, and then over twenty to get the hookah, which feels… excessive. So sometimes my zen at being in the Tea Garden has been overruled by my frustration over the poor service.

Since the first time i went here ive been really impressed. The décor, the seating, the tea, the shisha pipes. This a great place to go with a couple of mates.
Ive gone here tons of times, an just recently with my mam and sister for mothers day.
I always order the Irish cream tea or the Grannys Garden.
The shisha if you’ve never experienced it, is something i highly recommend, even once.
The atmosphere here is so relaxed it is easy to spend the entire evening here.
Which the staff thankfully don’t seem to mind at all!
They also have a small selection of games, books & magazines you can use for those of you that need something to keep you entertained :-)

It’s a case of expecting too much for me.
I headed here to meet a friend one Sunday. I was excited and was immediately taken in with the cosy surroundings. There weren’t many there and we decided to sit in a small room off the stairs, which was definitely a mistake.
We sat back with the menu and enquired whether there was any food. Nope, apparently, just biscuits and nuts. I’ll admit that I was a bit put off by this, I was expecting a small food menu. We decided to stay anyway and ordered our tea, a gunpowder tea (can’t remember exactly which one) and a South American lemon tea which we were warned was jammed with caffeine. The staff were nice but didn’t put me at ease as our waiter seemed nervous, or jumpy… possibly a consequence of working somewhere with such a ready supply of tea?
The teas didn’t take long, I was a bit put out that mine was given to me in a wooden pot ‘ready to drink’. Totally a personal preference here but even though there’s the standard x minutes brewing for different teas I would prefer a timer so I might brew it to taste. For this type of tea I would also prefer a tetsubin with a removable strainer because since it was given ready to drink and the leaves were in the pot the inevitable happened and within 10 minutes the tea had gone from delicious to bitter and cold.
We began to chat and then the toilets started flushing, apparently the room we were in was right next to the toilets and we could hear most everything that went on in there. Luckily with not too many patrons there at the time it didn’t bother us too much but it was a wee bit off putting.
For a place that’s so ‘all about tea’ I wasn’t really wowed. That said I enjoy the idea of a Tea Garden on The Quays that opens late as a proper pub alternative. I daresay I’ll be back to give it, and the hookahs, another shot!

Wow… this place was not what I was expecting.
I descend down a half length spiral staircase and emerged into a narrow hall with an empty reception on the right. There is exotic asian music playing.
I venture forth and pass a table with a lone man sitting at it.
Ahead there is a plume of smoke… I’m not sure, but I can’t show any weakness! So I venture even further, through the smoke with an air of confidence, like I know were I am going. But really I don’t know where I am going.
I see Rashel — I am in the Tea Gardens and not a den of iniquity — hurrah!
I settle down on a cushion, looking around at the other cushions, marveling at the fact I had to take my shoes off… it reminded me of being back in primary school where we had to wear slippers when they got carpet in.
But before I could settle we are moved! One of the select booths upstairs had become available. So we ascend to comfier heights.
Settled again I order a the Mate Lemon, which is a twist on their Mate Rancho. I wont pretend I knew what I was ordering, I didn’t. But it came in a funky wooden bulbous shaped cup the a metal straw that had a filter at the end. And it didn’t taste half bad. Everyone in our group marveled at what they had ordered and what it was served in.
We all had a very enjoyable evening here, chatting about the short story we all had come to talk about. But we also talked a lot about the place we came to talk in.
I will definitely be back, if not for the décor and relaxed atmosphere, definitely to try more of the massive selection of teas on the Tea Gardens menu.

I’ve never been somewhere like the Tea Garden. In fact, after emerging from their shisha smoke filled basement, I’m not sure I didn’t dream the whole place. It combines the best parts of pantomine Oriental décor with the warren-​like layout of a crackhouse.
The little ochaya-​style spots upstairs are the perfect spot to space out for a few hours. My experience of their tea selection went from the sublime to the ridiculous. I’d recommend the sweet and spicy masala tea, just the thing to fuel a bit of banter. I’m sure somewhere in the world there’s someone who likes the matcha tea too. It arrived at our table looking like something used to poison Indiana Jones. Despite the seawater taste, it’s actually just a variety of green tea so at least it’s got some dubious health benefits going for it. On the other hand, if matcha is the cure, I’d rather just stay sick.
Two things to remember though, clean socks are essential if you’re upstairs and it’s a pricey enough spot. It cost about € 15 for two pot-​sized servings of teas. On the other hand, the hours do sort of disappear in there. Go when you’ve enough time to enjoy it.

I popped in here with my wife one afternoon, after reading the reviews on Unilocal,and I wasn’t disappointed. It had only opened for the day, and we were the first through the doors!
This is an unusual place, and feels strange in Dublin, but I like to see businesses catering for different tastes and providing something out of ordinary. Fittest impressions were that we get offered something other than tea, but this is not the case at all :).
The guy who greeted us, told us to have a look around and sit anywhere; there are several seating arrangements over a few floors and in various styles/​rooms. We chose the one with the fish tank. Very comfy chairs, relaxing music and gentle lighting!
Went for a RooiBos (forgive the spelling please) red tea from South Africa, which was good, although slightly sweet, and a South American tea which came in a large cup shaped like and avocado. It was slightly oily in taste, but pleasant.
I’ve marked it down as they could do with offering some more food options apart from crisps/​nuts.
But I think I would go back, and a friend of mine would love it (very into his tea).
p. s. don’t be intimidated by the entrance…

Was here again last evening (after being turned away by two cafes at 7 who were closing in half an hour). It was open till 11pm! we got the room downstairs all to ourselves, there were 8 of us, and we shared three big pots of tea to a some really soothing, zen music, lying back on couches and comfy cushions.
It was fantastic! Like being a teenager again and having your own little hangout room/​shed/​treehouse/​attic/​basement that is just for you and your friends. It was non-​stop chatter and laughter (in fact we hope we weren’t too loud), and it’s finally great to have a late-​night comfy place to hang out in, that is not a dark, dingy pub where you have to buy a € 3.50 glass coke cos you don’t drink.
Tea came to around € 3 per person and we shared a fruity ‘Granny’s Garden’, a spicy ‘Masala chai’, and an energising ‘Vital Woman’ tea.

The one thing I love about having Irish friends that don’t drink is that they know of all the places sans alcohol because sadly if you are a non drinker your late night options are pretty shoddy.
You enter through a door that is as akin to the tiki bar doors that scatter the west coast of the United States.
We had the masala tea which had a beautiful milky texture brimming with spices like a good chai tea. There are multiple alcoves to chill out on cushions and relax. It really does encourage thoughtful conversation and calm.
A great group spot as well as date spot. I will be making more use of it this month as I am broke and booze in this country costs as much as a date with Marlene Dietrich… When she was still breathing, of course.

Not to start with a clichee but the Tea Garden is literally an oasis in the middle of Dublin that one can go to nurture both their taste buds and their soul.
I don’t know if there’s anything quite like it in Dublin but the Tea Garden earns the attribute of «chill» more than any other place I have visited from Thailand to San Francisco.
You get into the Tea Garden by going down a winding set of stairs. Inside, you’ll be welcomed with very soothing music, sometimes just sound-​therapy style white noise and sometimes subtle lounge music.
Downstairs, there are two areas with some really comfortable couches, some tables and an area out back where you can sit/​lie down on the floor and cushions to truly lounge. Upstairs, there’s an area with more tables and another couch and 3 – 4 large stalls made of bamboo where you can have some privacy while you lounge and enjoy your tea and hookah.
Tea Garden does specialize in high-​quality teas, so do expect to pay a bit more than your garden-​variety tea at a café but the quality and presentation are top notch. The types and quality of tea that can be found here are representative of this approach to high quality tea. If you are new to the world of tea, I could suggest picking one of the white teas or the oolongs to taste something unique. If you like chai, you’ll probably enjoy the masala chai tea which is really well done here.
The hookah (sheesah) here is also quite good, although, I am a total hookah snob. I do think that the blends that they used are selected such that they will be a good compliment to tea as opposed to a regular hookah smoking experience. That said, the only other place I know that serves hookah in Dublin is the Morroccan place around the corner and Tea Garden’s hookah is better.
Finally, it is worth noting that the staff is very good but at the same time make a distinct effort to not be in your face to let you relax like you would at home. So if you have a burning need after you have made your initial order, it might be a minute before they come around.

I have to say, of all the places i’ve been in Dublin there really is nowhere like Tea Garden, was introduced to this place by a mate of mine. As Jason C says its a little dodgy going down the steps but once your in there what a place. Its probably the most chilled out coffee or tea place in the city.
Split over two levels, we sat upstairs in the room featured in the photo, the huge vaulted roof is a great talking point as well as a goldfish bowl. They also have booths where you can lounge or lie and enjoy your tea or get a hookah pipe as well, how many places can you do this in Dublin.
The staff are really lovely, very friendly and talk you through their menu. Our waitress explained the place is Slovakian owned where Tea shops like this are a common feature. Really could have stayed another few hours if the place wasn’t closing. If you want to try somewhere a bit different check it out.