Tea house near the 7th arrondissement: Le Te at Palais-Royal

The 7th arrondissement: museums, ministries, very few single-origin tea houses

The 7th arrondissement concentrates major institutions: Musee d'Orsay, Assemblee nationale, Eiffel Tower, Invalides, ENA, Sciences Po. The area is dense in touristy cafes and bistros, much rarer in tea houses taking leaf selection seriously. For a 7th resident or visitor seeking a true single-origin tea house, the simplest is to cross the Seine to the 1st and the Palais-Royal. Le Te, at 41 bis rue de Montpensier, is reachable in 10 minutes on foot from quai Voltaire or rue du Bac.

The walk from the 7th

From Musee d'Orsay (M Solferino, line 12), 10 minutes: cross Passerelle Solferino, along the Tuileries garden to rue de Rivoli, enter the Palais-Royal garden via Cour de l'Horloge. From rue du Bac (line 12), 14 minutes via Pont Royal. From Solferino alone (line 12), 12 minutes. The route is flat, panoramic, particularly pleasant at sunset when light catches the Louvre and Tuileries.

The Taiwanese menu

Le Te offers a Taiwan-focused selection: high-mountain Ali Shan oolong, roasted Dong Ding, Sun Moon Lake black tea, jasmine, osmanthus. Taiwanese matcha whisked with bamboo. Asian pastries with black sesame, taro, matcha, yuzu. See the full menu.

Ideal after a museum visit

Visitors from Orsay or the Invalides particularly appreciate Le Te as a post-museum pause: you arrive with tired legs, sit in a quiet setting, order a teapot that lasts 90 minutes with two infusions. Not the Angelina crush on rue de Rivoli, not the Carette queue. An option to extend the cultural experience in a calm vibe.

See also

Saint-Germain tea house, Champs-Elysees tea house, cocoon tea house, tea house and pastry.

Booking

Open daily, 11am-8pm. Booking recommended on weekends via the contact page. Midweek, table usually available mid-afternoon.