We are really excited about this tea – this is a high grade organic Japanese green leaf tea blended with Matcha produced on the southern most island… Read more “New Discovery – Organic Kirishima Miyama Sencha with Matcha”

The Chai Family is a new range of teas which include some of the favourites at Tchai-Ovna: Yogi Yogi, Desi Chai, Bombay Lemongrass Chai, Chai Nanna and… Read more “Welcome to the “Chai Family” launching at the BBC Good Food Show”

Come down to hear this great trio of jazzateers create improvisational magic their musical wands. They will be doing their own individual interpretations of jazz standards, with… Read more “An evening of Jazz with the Jay Kilbride Trio – Wednesday 6th July”

Hi everybody This is the first of a series of tea talks and workshops which aim to explore the world of tea. Who would have thought that… Read more “Tea Talks – Exploring the world of black tea – 20th July”

So this is the deal, if you can make it to the Tchai-Ovna between 12 and 2pm on a week day you can take advantage of our… Read more “What a souper lunchtime deal!”

The Otago Lane community’s battle with developer Hugh Scott and the council was perhaps the most well known planning dispute in recent urban planning history. Thanks to… Read more “Summer Blues – A brief account of how we almost lost everything… almost”

This is a nice scorching summer and what better to chill the old beans with but this lovely jasmine ice tea we just invented yesterday. Made from… Read more “New – Jasmine Green Ice Tea”

All the way from the borders between Nepal and Darjeeling in India this is a unique tea, exclusive to Tchai-Ovna which we discovered on our recent excursion… Read more “Thurbo oolong – the taste of gold”