Upper Assam · Kashmiri saffron
Saffron Karak
Bold Assam leaf boiled low and slow with green cardamom and a thread of saffron, finished with full-cream milk. Deep, malty and quietly golden.
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Malty
Four pours that carry our name.
Each blend is boiled in small batches, one pot at a time, and poured into a hand-thrown kulhad. Follow the trail and find the cup that tastes like your evening.
Kannauj roses · Kerala cardamom
Rose & Cardamom Doodh
A soft, milk-forward chai scented with sun-dried rose petals and crushed green cardamom. Gentle, floral and made for slow afternoons.
- Rose petal
- Creamy
- Floral
Nilgiri hills · pine-smoked leaf
Wild Smoked Assam
Leaf cured over pinewood and brewed dark, with a trace of jaggery. Smoky, resinous and long on the finish, a serious cup for serious tea people.
- Pine smoke
- Jaggery
- Bold
Himachal · ginger, tulsi & jaggery
Himalayan Spice Kadha
A milk-free, warming decoction of fresh ginger, holy basil and black pepper, sweetened with jaggery. Clean, peppery and deeply comforting.
- Ginger
- Tulsi
- Peppery
Can’t choose? Reserve a four-cup tasting flight
Anatomy of the perfect cup.
Four small decisions, made the same way every single time. This is the ritual behind every kulhad we pour.
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01 · The Leaf
Torn, never cut
Whole-leaf Assam is hand-torn to open the leaf without crushing out the bitterness.
2 tsp per cup -
02 · The Water
Soft, filtered, rolling
Filtered water reaches a lively boil before the leaf ever touches it, so the first pull is clean and bright.
98°C · first boil
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03 · The Spice
Crushed to order
Cardamom, ginger and black pepper are pounded in a stone mortar minutes before they meet the pot.
30 sec · stone mortar -
04 · The Pour
Strained from a height
Full-cream milk joins last, then the chai is pulled between vessels to cool, aerate and round out the flavour.
3 pulls · clay kulhad
The Karak ratioper 100 ml cup
- Water 55%
- Milk 30%
- Leaf 10%
- Spice 5%
Explore Our Tea Menu
Something warm, something for everyone.
From a ten-rupee-style stall classic to a single-estate first flush, browse the pours our regulars come back for.
₹90Masala Kulhad Chai
Stall-style chai with hand-crushed spice, boiled strong and poured in clay.
₹95Ginger Cardamom Chai
Fresh ginger root and green cardamom for a bright, warming kick.
₹180Darjeeling First Flush
Delicate spring leaf with muscatel sweetness, steeped to order.
₹160Nilgiri Frost Black
A crisp, fragrant high-altitude black tea, clean and lightly citrusy.
₹130Iced Peach Chai
Cold-steeped Assam with ripe peach and a little jaggery syrup.
₹110Mint Lemon Cooler
Green tea shaken with fresh mint, lemon and crushed ice.
₹70Bun Maska
A soft, lightly sweet bun split and buttered, made for dunking.
₹80Samosa & Chutney
Crisp, spiced potato samosa with mint and tamarind chutneys.
The cups our regulars keep coming back for.
Ranked by the people who know us best. Here are this season’s five most loved pours, straight from the counter.
4
1.2k
Rose & Cardamom Doodh
Soft, floral, milk-forward
2
1.9k
Ginger Cardamom Chai
The rainy-day classic
1
2.4k
Saffron Karak
Our most ordered cup
3
1.6k
Bun Maska
Buttered, soft, made for dunking
5
980
Darjeeling First Flush
Delicate, muscatel, bright
4.9
2,380 guests
I came in for one kulhad and stayed three hours. The Saffron Karak is the only chai I now measure every other cup against.
The pakoras land at the table the minute the rain starts, and the staff remember how I take my ginger. It feels like a home that happens to serve tea.
A quiet corner, honest tea and a window seat in the evening. Exactly what this city needed.
A Cozy Place to Pause
Sit down. Slow down. Stay a little longer.
Our tea house changes its mood with the light. Choose an hour and see how the room feels.
07:00 – 11:00
Slow mornings
Soft light through the jali windows, the first kulhads of the day and the newspapers waiting on the counter.
- Free Wi-Fi
- Book nook
- Garden seats
- Live acoustic
Freshly Made Tea-Time Snacks
Out of the kitchen, still warm for your chai.
Small batches, made through the day on a schedule you can set your watch by. When a lamp glows, that batch just came out.
Checking the kitchen…
Fresh now
Osmania Biscuits
Buttery, lightly salted and baked each morning.
₹60Out at 8:00 AM
Fresh now
Masala Bread Toast
Griddled with spiced onion, tomato and green chilli.
₹75Out at 9:30 AM
Fresh now
Jaggery Banana Cake
Moist, dark and gently spiced with cardamom.
₹95Out at 11:00 AM
Fresh now
Aloo Bonda
Spiced potato in a crisp gram-flour jacket.
₹85Out at 3:30 PM
Fresh now
Onion Pakoda
Thin-sliced onion, curry leaf and ajwain, fried to order.
₹90Out at 4:30 PM
Pair any snack with a kulhad and save ₹20. See all tea-time snacks
Find us in the lanes of Old Town Market.
Look for the clay lamps and the steam. We are two minutes past the clock tower, with a kettle always on.
Checking the kettle…
Find us at 12, Spice Lane, Old Town Market Your City 600001- Chai counterKulhad chai, kadha, cold brewsNow 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Kitchen & snacksFresh batches through the dayNow 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Garden seatingLantern-lit, first come first servedNow 4:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Live acousticSaturdays and SundaysNow 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
4 min walk · 320 m
- MetroGate 2 · 4 min walk
- Auto & cabDrop-off at the Spice Lane arch
- ParkingFree two-wheeler bay