London Tea Friends

London Tea Friends A meet up group around tea and tea culture based in London, UK.

🌞 Summer Tea Fest announcement! Sunday 20th July 2025🌞Mark your calendars, STF is BACK for its 4th year!Join us in the h...
30/04/2025

🌞 Summer Tea Fest announcement! Sunday 20th July 2025🌞
Mark your calendars, STF is BACK for its 4th year!

Join us in the heart of London for the UK’s biggest tea festival - a completely FREE, community-led celebration of loose leaf tea.
Expect free tastings, hands-on workshops, demos, and casual brews with friends.
Registration opens soon — so stay tuned!

Save the date: 20th July 2025
We can't wait to share a cup (or several) with you.
Tell your friends, bring your thermos, and get ready for a summer day full of tea.

Oolong week! 🍃🍂Under the scorching sun in London this week we shared a great many varieties of oolong. We had so many ki...
29/04/2025

Oolong week! 🍃🍂
Under the scorching sun in London this week we shared a great many varieties of oolong. We had so many kinds of oolong, but since we had a good showing of tea friends as well, we were able to make up some impromptu oolong comparisons- oriental beauty, duck s**t and da hong pao among them.
Try having some steaming hot tea in the relentless sun- I think you'll find it cooling in a different-than-normal way!
Come join us at London Tea Friends every Sunday!
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Photos by and .zipu

Hi tea friends, this Sunday is a wulong session!We'll be outside on the Barbican terrace from 11am. Please bring along a...
25/04/2025

Hi tea friends, this Sunday is a wulong session!

We'll be outside on the Barbican terrace from 11am. Please bring along any wulong tea, teaware, hot water, and anything else you may need for brewing.

Looking forward to brewing with you soon!

Spring teas in the sun! We had a variety of teas in the sun this week, with tea friends bringing along what they thought...
10/04/2025

Spring teas in the sun!

We had a variety of teas in the sun this week, with tea friends bringing along what they thought best represented spring. With teas such as Hugh mountain oolongs, longjing appearing with less obvious ones like spring picked aged shengs from decades ago, it was an enjoyable and refreshing session that allowed us to reminisce on past seasons!

Join us every Sunday for free tea and discussions on tea!

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Photos by .zipu

Shumageddon! We tried an astounding 21 shu / shou cooked puers today! Each was weighed exactly 8g and we tried brewing t...
11/03/2025

Shumageddon!

We tried an astounding 21 shu / shou cooked puers today! Each was weighed exactly 8g and we tried brewing them similarly while taking notes all the while. They were blind brewed, and were all revealed only at the end.

It was a really educational experience and we learnt how vastly different shous could be, from peppery to sweet and dry-woody to damp!

These were ranked "Most popular" by the group:
1. 2022 White2Tea Loon-Call in the Dark
2. 2005 Sunsing Master Loo Brick
3. 2009 Yee On Tea Co. Menghai Purple Mark

Teas tried:
A. 2006 Chunhai 7572
B. 2011 Sunsing Ecco White Paper
C. 2019 Yiwu Mountain Tea Yiwu Ripe
D. 2019 White2Tea Bamboo Shu
E. 2023 White2Tea Predawn Dark
F. 2022 White2Tea Loon-Call in the Dark
G. 2006 Jin Yu Xuan Nannoushan
H. 2020 White2Tea Camphornought
I. 2005 Sunsing Master Loo Brick
J. 2010 Mei Leaf Hip Cuddler
K. 2010 7581
L. 2011 Dayi 7572
M. 2020 White2Tea The Nameless One
N. 2024 Jinggu Ripe
O. 2009 Yee On Tea Co. Menghai Purple Mark
P. 2014 Mei Leaf Gateau Flapper
Q. 2014 Mei Leaf Gateau Flapper (from a different source)
R. 2019 Yiwu Mountain Tea Yiwu Ripe (from a different source)
S. 2017 Yiwu Mountain Tea Yiwu Ripe
T. 2016 Dayi Brick
U. 2021 Chen Sheng Hao Chenpi

There were 2 repeats, unintentionally, and unbeknownst to the people who brought them too! And even though they were tried one after the other, none of us could tell!

Looking forward to more in depth blind comparisons!

-Zac

Photo credits: and .zipu

Hello Tea Friends! It's a puerh session this week. See you in the Barbican from 11am this Sunday. Please bring along a p...
21/02/2025

Hello Tea Friends!

It's a puerh session this week. See you in the Barbican from 11am this Sunday. Please bring along a puerh (sheng or shou), teaware, hot water, and anything else you may need for brewing.

Looking forward to brewing with you soon!

Hi Tea friends!This week is an oolong session - we haven't done one in a little while!We'll be in the Barbican from 11am...
14/02/2025

Hi Tea friends!

This week is an oolong session - we haven't done one in a little while!

We'll be in the Barbican from 11am on Sunday. Please bring along oolong tea, teaware, hot water, and anything else you may need for brewing.

Looking forward to brewing with you soon!

Red Tea session here at LTF last Sunday! It's always good to return to delicious brews of red tea. I personally drink th...
13/02/2025

Red Tea session here at LTF last Sunday!

It's always good to return to delicious brews of red tea. I personally drink them rather rarely these days, but when I get treated to them, I always find them very warming and gentle, like a soft cashmere throw- perfect for the chill weather we've been having recently!

Among the many distinctive teas we shared among the tea friends were Jin Jun Meis, unsmoked Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, Ruby 18, and some jaw-droppingly good Japanese red! Very much hoping that we'll be able to source the last one with ease soon 🤞

Stay warm and drink lots of tea!

-Zac

Photo credits to and .zipu

Hello Tea Friends!Red tea or black tea, whichever nomenclature you opt for - that's what we're doing this Sunday session...
07/02/2025

Hello Tea Friends!

Red tea or black tea, whichever nomenclature you opt for - that's what we're doing this Sunday session!

We'll be in the Barbican from 11am. Please bring along red tea, teaware, hot water, and anything else you may need for brewing.

Looking forward to brewing with you soon!

Hi Tea Friends!This week is a non-themed session in the Barbican from 11am.Please bring along any tea, teaware, and hot ...
31/01/2025

Hi Tea Friends!

This week is a non-themed session in the Barbican from 11am.

Please bring along any tea, teaware, and hot water.

Looking forward to brewing with you soon!

This Sunday, we'll be celebrating the Year of the Snake in the Chinese, and indeed, other Asian zodiac. Please bring alo...
23/01/2025

This Sunday, we'll be celebrating the Year of the Snake in the Chinese, and indeed, other Asian zodiac. Please bring along any teas (or teaware) that you think fits this theme to share!

Join us on Sunday from 11am. Bring along a thermos of hot water, teacups and tea and teaware if you'd like to share!

Happy New Year!

Well done to one and all! We've made it an amazing three years. We'd like to think that we've helped connect and make th...
23/01/2025

Well done to one and all! We've made it an amazing three years.
We'd like to think that we've helped connect and make the London Tea community a stronger and more vibrant place! Thank you to all our friends, supporters and members ❤️

Here's to many more years and cups of teas of all kinds!

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