Interior de Té — Restaurant in Barcelona

There are two doors. Left is to the tea house where you can drink tea, right is to the tea shop.

Tea house is very nice. 100+ teas you can drink, mostly from China but also a little from Japan and India. Also have snacks and simple food.

They bring you all the equipment to make it gong fu style, and can show you how.

Gongfu (功夫) tea is a traditional Chinese method for serving tea.

The term gongfu means “skill” or “mastery”. Kung fu martial arts uses the same word. One can have gongfu/kungfu in many different fields: calligraphy, poetry, music, etc.

Gongfu method typically infuses the tea for brief periods of only 30-90 seconds. Then the tea is poured into small cups the size of a shot glass.

The tea leaves can be infused 5-10 times, with the flavors changing with each extraction.

In a gongfu tea ceremony, one person acts as the host or tea master (chashi, 茶师) who is responsible for brewing the tea with precision, controlling factors like water temperature and infusion time.

Mentally keeping track of the temperature of each guest's tea cup so that it's not too hot or cold, and the timing of each infusion can be a challenge but becomes second nature once one has developed the...

What a bizarre experience.

The decor inside this tea shop is stellar. However, the staff seems to resemble chickens with their heads cut off. One server told multiple customers to “sit wherever they’d like,” but the only open table had no chairs at it. Several people left.

Of the two teas that we ordered, the Strawberries and Cream rooibos was delightful. But the Blanca Pomelo was clearly expired with no flavor. The water served with it was barely lukewarm, and after five minutes of brewing, still tasted of only warm-ish water, not tea. Most importantly, both pots were unusable in their functionality, easily clogged, with water pouring down the sides onto the table. And additional water was served in stainless steel camping thermoses, which definitely took away from what was expected to be a traditional experience.

The gyozas were great, but the miso soup lacked any salt at all, and had large chunks of undissolved miso paste in it.

All of this could have been remedied had we ever been checked on, but again, the servers were so flustered with their total of seven tables, that they never came back.

A nice try, but leaves plenty to...

Excellent quality and huge variety of premium Asian teas and herbal infusions. The menu has multiple types of green tea (both from China and Japan) as well as pu erh, oolong, black tea, chai, etc. We loved the matcha (not "latte" although it's also offered in the menu) and their mochi selection (strawberry, yuzu, azuki, matcha, cocoa). The place is tiny and decorated in wooden colors, kind of resembling an antique Japanese store. Very cosy, and oftentimes super quiet too! No music, no noises. Perfect to enjoy teas in a slow pace or to read while sipping a warm and wonderful cup of tea. You can tell the owners (a kind and charming couple) know very much...