L’OisiveThé – Tea Room and knitting – Karin Shibata

L’OisiveThé a creative Tea Room

L’OisiveThé is à play on words. “Oisiveté” in French mean “idleness“.

L’OisiveThé is a creative tea room.

A funky mix of Parisian tea salon and of more recent, trendy crafty spirit… A very international tea room.

Tea 5€, cottage cheese with marble syrup 4.50€, cookie 2,70€

We took the “Thé des Moines” of Le Palais des Thés, the Monk Tea.

A traditional Tibetan black and green tea mix, with 10 plants and flowers. A nice jasmine and bergamot sent.

We also tried the “Thé des Korrigans” of La Maison Donovan.

Korrigans is a legend creature from Brittany. A black tea with salted butter caramel flavour (of course 😉

It had a very strong flavour.

The home-made chocolate and peanut butter cookie was delicious.

I used to come to this tea salon when it opened few years ago…

Since then, it transformed into a knitting tea room ! I don’t knit (yet). Yet, I enjoyed the company of the yarn rainbows…

The yarns are hand dyed yarns from North America and UK.

As you can see they have a wide and coloured selection of yarns as well as teas.

From green tea, to black or white tea, half-fermented or fermented tea.

L’OisiveThé is located at la Butte-aux-Cailles, an area the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

“Butte-aux-Cailles” means mound of quails.

In my imagination, the origin of the name would have been a hill with quails flying around…

The truth is much more mercenary…

Pierre Caille, bought the area in 1543 and named it !

They have lunch service and brunches on week-ends.

A very international tea room spirit.

1, rue Jean Marie JEGO

10, rue de la Butte aux Cailles 75013 Paris, France

Tue: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Wed: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Thu – Fri: 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Sat – Sun: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

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