Tucson Tea House
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We invite all of our tea-drinking friends to come and join us at our tea house in Tucson, AZ.
A friendly, relaxed, authentically Chinese atmosphere awaits…
Tea House Hours:
Monday - Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm
To contact our traditional Chinese teahouse in Tucson, Arizona please dial 520-881-4072. Please direct any customer service communications to sales@sevencups.com.
Our teas are the best available from China, the home of tea, and our tea house is one of the very first genuine Chinese tea houses in North America, and the first to be owned and managed by a genuine, certified Chinese Tea Master! All the beautiful furniture, fixtures and fittings are exquisitely hand-carved in China, and we offer a large range of genuine Chinese tea sets and other fine tea wares for sale, as well as our legendary teas in resealable foil packs to take home.
What the papers say…
Our tea house has been featured in the local press several times recently. A true Tucson treasure is heralded by a bright green awning and little else. Austin… invited us to sit at any of the other tables. And what tables they are. Polished and carved with Asian designs, they are one piece of the puzzle that makes Seven Cups one of the most calm and welcoming areas I’ve run across in Tucson: a place where you can just chill for a while. Oriental music plays in 
the background, mixing with the hum from the aquarium in a back corner. Ceiling fans twirl overhead, and pink lamps over the tables add a splash of color to the room. It’s a lovely little spot. It was a welcome respite… we were all pretty stressed for various reasons when we entered Seven Cups. But the atmosphere–combined with a healthy dose of delicious, high-quality tea–calmed us into delightful mellowness by the time we left about an hour later. The teas and pastries were all delivered swiftly, and then we were left to chat, sip, stir and enjoy. Every so often, Mr. Hodge would come by and fill
our pots with hot water, but otherwise, we were left alone to just calm down, drink delicious tea and forget about the world that zoomed by outside. It was a nice moment. Seven Cups is not perfect… but it’s pretty darned close. Austin Hodge and Zhu Ping should be applauded for this venture. Because of Seven Cups, Tucson is a better–and slightly calmer–place. Tucson Weekly, 2 September 2004
Tucked into a little strip mall across the street from Rincon Market, Seven Cups is a 
charming Chinese teahouse that serves truly remarkable tea in a relaxed, elegant atmosphere. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable, and will happily explain the different leaves and growing regions of the wide variety of teas they carry. They offer etiquette lessons in Chinese tea drinking if you want, or you can just relax and enjoy the nuances of fine tea all afternoon. (The large pots are refilled with hot water three times.) If you get hungry, they also serve Japanese sweets–small, delicate pastries made from exotic ingredients, like red bean paste, that taste like nothing else on Earth. Best of Tucson 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Beyond the tea-lined shelves are slow-turning ceiling fans, an aquarium, red paper lanterns and wooden
tables decorated with inlaid birds and vines for people who want to drink tea and indulge in Japanese sweets. Chinese music softly wafts through the dining area. Arizona Daily Star, 2 September 2004The atmosphere at Seven Cups certainly assists in the pursuit of serenity. Warmed by Chinese redwood furniture and red lanterns, the teahouse promotes lingering over teapots and conversation. Tucson Citizen, Friday 30 July 2004
The teahouse, which seats 30, is decorated with red Chinese lanterns (for good luck) and a large feng shui table (”for everything,” Zhuping Hodge says). Traditional Chinese music echoes off the clay walls.
Arizona Daily
Star, 23 July 2004
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