6 Best Tea Rooms & Shops in Richmond, VA

Richmond's long-running loose-leaf tea shop, named for the Carytown storefront it opened in 2005. The shop says its move to 320 Libbie Avenue, next door to APOTHEC, will be complete by November 1, 2026; it already runs a satellite tea counter inside APOTHEC with about 200 blends sold loose or by the cup. The range runs from Darjeeling, oolong and matured pu-erh to matcha, flowering teas and house wellness blends, priced by the ounce.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts runs its own tearoom in the Pauley Center, looking out on the Robins Sculpture Garden. Service draws on French and English tea traditions, and the food menu rotates with the museum's collections; the current menu is themed on the Great Mughals. Tea is served Saturday through Wednesday from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm; the room is closed Thursday and Friday.

The Jefferson serves its Southern Afternoon Tea on Fridays and Saturdays on the mezzanine balcony above the hotel's Rotunda, with seatings from noon to 4:15 pm. The standard service is $50 per person plus tax and gratuity: finger sandwiches including ham on a sweet potato biscuit, scones with Devonshire cream, pastries and a choice of tea. A Chocolate Lover's Tea runs on the first and third Saturdays, and holiday teas start the day after Thanksgiving.

A reservation-only afternoon tea room in Stony Point Fashion Park, run by Clarissa and Daniel Luna, who took over the former Queen Bee and Co. tea room in late 2022. Seating is low, lounge-style furniture rather than restaurant tables, and the standard experience costs $65 per person plus tax, the same for adults and children. A Christmas Carol tea with a staged reading runs December 1-23, 2026 at $85.

A Southern-leaning tea room in the Midlothian Crossing shopping center on Midlothian Turnpike; the address is Richmond, but the building sits just over the line in Chesterfield County. It serves afternoon tea Tuesday through Friday alongside light Southern fare, and Saturdays are full afternoon tea seatings only. The room is currently reservation-only, and the full afternoon tea is planned as a 90-minute sitting.

A West Main Street roaster and tea shop that has operated since 1979. Coffee is half the business, but the store keeps one of the larger walls of loose-leaf tea in the city, sold by weight alongside infusers and canisters; its in-store best seller is a naturally sweetened house blend called Richmond Blend. Open seven days.