Tea time deserves better than a mug grabbed five minutes before your next meeting. Whether you’re after a proper afternoon tea, a quiet relaxing ritual or somewhere pretty enough to sit and enjoy your cup, these spots know how to do tea properly.

At Fairmont Amman, tea time gets the full elegant-lounge treatment, with Crystal’s signature high tea served on tiered stands in its polished lobby setting. The afternoon tea experience runs daily from 4:00 PM til 7:00 PM, giving you a very good excuse to put the phone down and stay awhile.

A beautiful café in Um Uthaina, Mama Mia is the kind of place that works when tea and dessert is the entire itinerary. With its breakfast and dessert offerings, it’s an easy choice for a casual catch-up where nobody is watching the clock.

If tea is the whole point, Sage takes the assignment seriously. This Abdoun tea house is currently open in the evenings from 5:00 PM til 10:00 PM, making it a particularly fitting choice when your idea of winding down involves tea rather than another night out.

This is where tea time gets a serious upgrade: Iris Tea Lounge serves afternoon tea alongside breakfast and freshly prepared pastries in the polished surroundings of The Ritz-Carlton, Amman. The hotel’s afternoon tea experience includes traditional scones, sandwiches and an assortment of truffles, macarons and cakes…basically, the tiny-food-on-a-tiered-stand fantasy is alive and well.

Chapter 9 is a coffee shop and restaurant on Jibouti Street with a cozy, relaxed feel that makes it easy to turn a simple drink into a longer catch-up. It’s not a dedicated tea room, but for an informal tea break with friends, it fits the bill without demanding the full afternoon-tea ceremony.

Tea is quite literally part of the St. Regis tradition here, with the Tea Lounge offering fine teas and light refreshments in a refined yet relaxed setting. It’s open daily from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM, so you can make the ritual happen well beyond the traditional afternoon window.

It’s Tea Time Tipsters!

Lemur Love, 

The Tip n’ Tag Team