Assamica Teas

05/27/2026

Crisp, cold, refreshing! Iced tea season is here guys and we seriously couldn't be more excited (we actually just bought ourselves a new set of glassware just for sipping down iced teas all summer long 🥰).

This season, try our iced tea sachets for a convenient way to make your iced teas! We've got Quart and Gallon sized sachets. All you need to do is drop one into cold water and let steep overnight. Easy-peasy!

Or if you have an emergency iced tea moment, there's a 10 minute brewing method too. All instructions are on the sachet.

Of course you could just let us do the brewing instead...with our ready-to-drink bottled iced teas, made from scratch upon order. Ingredients? Just tea, of course. No sugar or weird additives.

So which iced tea would you prefer? A classic black tea, perhaps with sliced peaches added in 🍑 a smooth and mellow green tea? Or a strong and fruity hibiscus herbal tea? 🍹

Well we've got ALL the options! Browse our iced teas at assamicateas.com/iced-tea (link in bio).

05/19/2026

Indian masala chai, slow steeped with fresh spices and strong tea. There's a reason we ask for 10 minutes to brew a traditional chai for you. Relax and savor a peaceful moment while you wait, we promise it's worth it!

05/13/2026

Tea Lounge is closed after 1pm today and closed all day tomorrow! We return FRIDAY the 15th at 11am!

04/17/2026

You know you want this cute card in your wallet 🥺 Tea Loyalty stamp cards are here!!

1 stamp per visit with a $5 spend
Collect 8 stamps, get a FREE drink of choice!

We can retroactively stamp some of our regulars' cards to reflect purchases made since Feb'26 ONLY IF your email or phone is linked to your purchases with a credit card. OR if you have receipts, please show us and we'll be happy to give you stamps!

So come on down for a refreshing iced tea or cold brew coffee and grab your loyalty cards 🍹🫖☕

03/26/2026

We had an interesting moment in the Tea Lounge yesterday. Someone ordered coffee with oat milk and...they left their drink half unfinished! We asked them if there was something wrong with the coffee and they answered that they actually didn't like the oat milk. That was the first time someone let us know about their disappointment with our oat milk, so it gave us a reason to share about the oat milk we use.

We don't really have a lot of people requesting oat milk anyway, so we've never been able to keep the large cartons of alternative milks that other cafes use, because they're perishable in a week. We also don’t want to use the typical “barista-grade” oat milks, and here's why 👇

Most of them are made with gums, seed oils, and other additives or thickeners. As explained by our co-founder and nutritionist, Dr. Gayatri Borthakur: many commercial dairy alternatives are designed for texture and foam, often using processed seed oils like rapeseed oil, or MCT oil, or gums to thicken and stabilize. This creates creaminess and mouthfeel, but also adds hidden calories if you reach for it on a daily basis. These ingredients can also negatively affect people with sensitivities, inflammation issues, and other existing gut conditions. So a clean and simple ingredient profile is always best.

Instead, we use an organic, non-GMO oat milk made from just oats and water. It thickens and foams up a little, but definitely won't be as creamy as other commercial oat milks on the market. And to be perfectly honest, we don’t really recommend oat milk (or any milk) with our teas or coffee anyway. The coffee beans we use are smooth, mellow, and low-acid, while our teas are complex and full of flavor notes that get dimmed by the addition of milks. Try ordering them without milk and see how you like it!

The choices we made when creating our Tea Lounge was aligned with how we approach food and drink personally. But for those who would still prefer barista-grade oat milks, we hope you understand our limitations in carrying perishable ingredients that don't get ordered often enough.

03/25/2026

New summer hours starting next week!

03/21/2026

Market day today!! 12-4 at SAAGE Culinary Studio 160 S River St, Aurora!

03/20/2026

Meet your new summer drinks! Which one will you be sipping on?

🤎Cold Brew Coffee with French Vanilla Sweet Cream
❤️Raspberry "Mai Tai" Iced Tea

Launching THIS SATURDAY at the Maker's Market at . 12pm-4pm.

03/17/2026

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!! We tried to create an Irish 🇮🇪 drink and it kinda succeeded 😅 little light on the orange color there on the bottom, but it was a fun experiment. Anyway, here's our toast to the Irish! May good luck pursue you each morning and night 🍀

03/07/2026

A toast to you, beautiful Aurora!
We're sipping on "Fleur" tonight 🌼 which is one of two new zero-proof cocktails on our Spring menu.
If you've tasted our OG menu, you'll love these seasonal specials. Available today until Summer-ish.

03/04/2026

You know what goes well with Chef Terrell's stone fired pizzas? Our new zero proof cocktail menu 🤩 what's on the menu? You'll just have to visit to find out!

Fri March 6th, 5-9pm

Come check out the fresh made to order stone fire pizza we will be serving up for First Friday . From 5pm to 9pm our 10" pizzas with a wide variety of flavors from elotes to jerk chicken.

03/04/2026

We are humbled by the incredible welcome that Aurora has given us since we opened 7 weeks ago. Your support and friendship really mean everything to us, so today we want to share about the care and intention behind our loose leaf teas that all of you are loving ❤️

As a small, independent tea store, we work diligently to source exceptional teas from around the world. We select partners and foragers who personally travel and build direct relationships with tea estates. They maintain close contact with plantation managers and ensure consistent production quality plus safe conditions for workers. Our partners also maintain in-house labs to test and certify all our teas have: NO pesticides, NO heavy metals, and NO aflatoxins. While we source our specialty teas and base teas from these partners, 45 of our loose leaf tea blends are made right here at our Tea Lounge! We never get tired of making delicious experiments, dreaming up new flavors and blending fine teas, fruits, extracts, flowers, herbs, and fresh ground spices.

We do make it a priority to visit Assam tea estates when we travel back home to Assam. The pictures here are of a plantation in Golaghat. There is something profound about standing in the gardens, touching the leaves that will one day become the beautifully rolled loose-leaf teas in our tins at the Tea Lounge! On our most recent visit, we brought back two small-batch teas: a small tin of an experimental Assam Oolong tea, which surprised us with a delicate floral sweetness and light honey finish. It still had a faint malty tone that you don’t typically find in Chinese varietals. And the second one was a single-origin tippy Assam Black tea with a gentle smokiness and undertones of freshly cut bamboo.

This black tea is available for sale at the Tea Lounge. We invite you to come experience a tasting of Assam teas to discover their depth. And the next time you sip one of our teas, just imagine the feeling of calm and the aroma of dew-soaked tea leaves as you stroll down the meandering paths of an Assam tea garden!

Thank you all for supporting thoughtful sourcing and small business craftsmanship.

02/27/2026

It's them anthocyanins y'all. The healthiest food coloring are the pigments found in fruits, herbs, and of course, tea! (ooh Easter egg dyes maybe? 👀)

Speaking of healthy, we often have people come in for specific health conditions, like "do you have a pain relief tea?". Well we don't have a herbal cure that will numb your pain receptors, but we do have tea blends that help fight against inflammation or stress toxins, and even calm down your nerves!

Come visit our collection of 80+ loose leaf teas. They're waiting to help you with your wellness 🧘

02/20/2026

Pibaani, Fridays 4-6pm. Experience zero-proof cocktails made with botanicals, tea leaves, spices, and fruits.

On the menu today:
Zero Fashioned / housemade NA whisky, spiced syrup, orange bitters
Dewdrop / housemade NA gin, tonic water, cucumber, lime
Sunset / housemade NA rum, pomegranate, cranberry

02/12/2026

We're loving the warmer temperatures this week! Already in a spring mood 💐 We just blended this amazingly floral tea called Garden of Versailles. This time of the year, the royal gardens of Versailles are filled with various floral scents from their rose bushes, hyacinth, lavender, etc mingling with the refreshing aroma from the nearby Orangery. We wanted to replicate that intoxicating atmosphere with this black loose leaf tea blend!

It'll certainly carry away your imagination to 17th century palace gardens, without traveling across the pond! Come and sip on a freshly brewed cup of tea 🫖

02/11/2026

Acai Raspberry 🩷 the perfect tea for Valentine's Day! With a pretty pink cup color and tasting notes of fruits, berries, and hints of cacao nibs. Pairs perfectly with cute heart butter cookies (get these at our Valentine's Day Tea Party! Swipe for the menu, tickets at link in bio).
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/valentines-tea-party-tickets-1982737638651?aff=oddtdtcreator

02/10/2026

Enjoy a cozy and cute Tea Party with our special Valentine's menu! Celebrate together with your love, spend Galentine's Day (Friday) with your besties, or grab a family member to be your tea buddy. Our Valentine's Tea Party is for everyone!

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/valentines-tea-party-tickets-1982737638651

THE MENU
Strawberry White Chocolate Scones 🍓
Spiced Chicken Puffs
Cucumber Tea Sandwich
Egg & Avocado Tea Sandwich 🥑
Assorted Mini Sweets and Butter Cookies 💝
Pot of Tea (choice of 80+ loose leaf teas) 🫖
Non-alcoholic Cocktail 🍹

SEATING OPTIONS
Friday at 2pm
Saturday at 10am
Saturday at 2pm

02/07/2026

Need a cute handmade gift for your loved one this Valentine's Day? Our collab gift box with is the perfect option! Heart butter cookies made with love in each bite plus our pretty-in-pink Acai Raspberry herbal tea, wrapped in a gift box adorned with cute ribbon. Get it for only $15, until supplies last!

02/04/2026

Introducing: Pibaani, a zero-proof cocktail bar brought to you by Assamica Teas 🍸 we've been working on these drinks for about 3 years now, blending herbs, spices, and yes, teas into non-alcoholic bases and mixers!

If you're used to mocktails being too sweet, made just with juices and club soda, you'll want to try our carefully crafted drinks, each with a complex flavor profile.

Swipe to see the full menu for our first pop-up at the upcoming Aurora First Friday, 2/6 from 4-6pm.

01/27/2026

Did you know there's a Week 2 for ? It's still going on! So don't fret if you missed out on our warm & delicious Sunshine Scones last week. You can still get them until this Saturday. Bring a friend and enjoy "A Pot of Tea and Scones for 2" along with cream & jam.

10-4, until Sat the 31st

01/22/2026

If you have a sweet tooth, you won't want to miss Mom's Recipes dessert popup: buttery sweet cookies with a guava jam filling, dulce de leche stuffed chocolate honey cakes, and gluten-friendly sweet butter cookies 😍 samples are available, come and try! Thu-Sat, 10-2.

01/20/2026

Kicking off Restaurant Week with warm Orange Cranberry Sunshine Scones, Chocolate Chip Scones, and Blueberry Streusel Muffins. Grab a friend, family, neighbor, S.O. and enjoy a "Pot of Tea & Scones for 2" with cream and jam. A special that we're having only for Restaurant Week (Jan 20 - Feb 3). Seriously guys, these treats are limited time. We're also doing a BOGO 50% off our full drinks menu. Don't miss out!

Tag the friend(s) you'd bring to afternoon tea 🫖

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