The Tea

With a mixture of passion and knowledge, Claudia Carità has made the city of Turin familiar with the culture of tea. She did so originally by importing and offering her guests and customers an infinite variety of interesting fine teas, all distinctive and refined. Above all Claudia is adept at popularising the complex philosophy connected with the tea ceremony which she describes in talks open to the public, now organised at her shop, in the past at Turin’s Museum of Oriental Art. Her shop used to be one of the city’s leading coffee shops, as the lovely antique sign over the entrance testifies. Claudia has kept the original décor to preserve the old feel of the place, as ever pervaded by the atmosphere of faraway places (the scent of coffee in the past, now that of tea). The shop stocks hundreds of products, all collected by Claudia on her travels: hence tea leaves, infusions and pyramid tea bags, as well as aromatic herbs and salts from all over the world. Since 2022 the establishment has been a member of the Association of Historical Cafés of Turin and Piedmont.

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