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India
15 cafés on this guide
India
14 cafés on this guide
India
6 cafés on this guide
Japan
10 cafés on this guide
Japan
10 cafés on this guide
Japan
11 cafés on this guide
United States
10 cafés on this guide
United States
10 cafés on this guide
United States
10 cafés on this guide
United States
10 cafés on this guide
United States
10 cafés on this guide
United Kingdom
10 cafés on this guide
France
10 cafés on this guide
Spain
10 cafés on this guide
Italy
10 cafés on this guide
Czech Republic
6 cafés on this guide
Portugal
5 cafés on this guide
South Korea
10 cafés on this guide
Singapore
6 cafés on this guide
Vietnam
10 cafés on this guide
Vietnam
10 cafés on this guide
United Arab Emirates
10 cafés on this guide
United Arab Emirates
9 cafés on this guide
Australia
6 cafés on this guide
Where matcha is grown, and where the fastest-growing new markets are.
Where matcha comes from, so the bar is different. Thirty-one tea houses across Kyoto, Tokyo and Uji — merchant salons trading since 1717, a shop trading since 1160, stone mills you can turn yourself, and koicha served the way the tea schools drink it.
All 31 Japanese tea houses →The best value serious matcha of any country we cover — a single-cultivar bowl costs a third of the London price. Also the country with the sharpest paradox: it grows real matcha, but no café here pours it.
All 20 Vietnamese cafes →The only country here besides Japan that grows its own powdered tea. Korean malcha from Jeju and Boseong competes head-on with imported Uji, which is a choice no Western city has to make.
All 10 Seoul cafes →Our deepest coverage anywhere. Café guides for Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, with the brand and grade each café pours where we could confirm it.
All 35 Indian cafés →Or 14 brands ranked →Dedicated specialists rather than coffee shops adding a green option, plus Kyoto houses on the ground.
Read the Singapore guide →Toronto's specialists cluster downtown, led by an Uji house with its own supply chain.
Read the Toronto guide →Matchali and a small, serious ceremonial-grade scene concentrated in the city centre.
Taipei ateliers importing single-origin Uji matcha into a country with its own deep tea culture.
Where powdered tea began. Today the new-wave chains in Shanghai and Beijing move more matcha than anyone.
Kuala Lumpur tea salons, mostly at the luxury end. A Klang Valley guide is on the list.
The market that turned matcha into a café drink for everyone else, and now our most detailed coverage outside India.
Fifty cafés across five cities, ranked on matcha quality and sourcing transparency rather than on how the drink photographs. Kettl's farm-direct sourcing, Little Tokyo's tea masters, and the Koreatown cream tops that made matcha a lifestyle.
All 50 US cafes →Ten cities, from London and Paris to Prague and Lisbon. Small, precise scenes, and the best Japanese tea houses outside Japan. Our widest city coverage anywhere.
Europe's largest scene by a wide margin, and the widest quality spread with it. Knowing the specific addresses matters more here than anywhere else in Europe.
Read the London guide →Two Japanese-owned tea houses that predate the entire Western matcha trend, plus the best pastry pairing anywhere. Pastry-led, and better for it.
Read the Paris guide →Newer, cheaper and growing quickly. A younger scene than Paris or London, with prices to match.
Read the Barcelona guide →Thin on the ground, which makes the good ones matter more. A short list, worth knowing precisely.
Read the Rome guide →Ceremony-first cafes, stone-ground matcha and wagashi, plus a Japanese tea house running since the 2010s. Closer to Kyoto than to Brooklyn.
Read the Berlin guide →One of Europe's fastest-growing matcha cities, clustered in Karlin and Vinohrady rather than the tourist core.
Read the Prague guide →One venue stone-mills its own matcha on site, which is close to unique outside Japan.
Read the Amsterdam guide →A matcha bar that refuses to sell coffee, plus two counters inside the main station. Expensive, and serious.
Read the Zurich guide →Two dedicated matcha bars and a strong independent cafe scene that adopted Japanese tea early.
Read the Lisbon guide →Newer and more design-led than Barcelona, clustered tightly in Chueca and Justicia.
Read the Madrid guide →Ten city guides. All European cafes, in one place →
Café culture strong enough that matcha had to be good to survive.
A market that went from nothing to matcha-saturated in about three years, and is still working out what quality means.
The most commercially aggressive matcha market in the world and one of the least tea-literate. Nineteen cafes ranked on whether they will name a prefecture, a grade or a supplier at all.
All 19 UAE cafes →Most of what matters about matcha does not change with your postcode. Grade, harvest, cultivar, storage and price per gram behave the same everywhere, so these pages are useful wherever you are reading from:
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FAQ
India and the United States both have full coverage. India has 14 brands documented and scored on quality and price per gram, plus city café guides for Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. The United States has city guides for New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, fifty cafés in total. Japan has a published growing-regions guide. Singapore, Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) and Canada (Toronto) have city guides too. Cafés in a further seven countries appear in our worldwide café list. Everything else on this page is marked planned.
The site started in India, which is where we can buy tins at retail price, whisk them side by side and visit cafés in person. Coverage expands to a new city only once we can test to the same standard rather than aggregate other people's reviews.
Planned means there is no published guide yet, only an intention to build one. We list planned countries so the structure of the site is visible, and we label them so nobody clicks expecting a review that does not exist.
Reader demand first, then whether a city has enough dedicated matcha service to review honestly. A city with three cafés pouring the same culinary-grade powder does not need a ranking. If you want your city covered, tell us.