China’s Most Well-liked Tea Store Chagee Fashionable Tea Home Opens Its First U.S. Location in Los Angeles

Chagee (pronounced CHAH-jee) Fashionable Tea Home, certainly one of China’s hottest tea outlets, is gearing as much as make its U.S. debut in Los Angeles with its first stateside location on the Westfield Century Metropolis. The store, positioned on the highest deck of the mall, will open to the general public on Saturday, April 26, with a grand opening scheduled for Might 9. The U.S. location has been in progress since at the very least November 2024, when Westside blogger Todrick Allen noticed Chagee branding on the former Sugar Manufacturing unit location.

Chagee was based in 2017 in Yunnan and has since expanded to over 6,400 areas worldwide, together with throughout China, in addition to in Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia. The chain is greatest identified for its fresh-brewed and milk teas, served in ornate cups that might have a look at house in a Dior effective china assortment. Prematurely of the Century Metropolis location opening, Chagee filed for an IPO and is now buying and selling on the Nasdaq with the ticker “CHA.”

On the Century Metropolis store, which is positioned subsequent to the Container Retailer, Chagee is providing a full line-up of its signature teas, together with a peach oolong tea latte, roasted oolong tea, a jasmine inexperienced tea latte, and a blended caramel tea frappe. The store makes a speciality of each tea lattes, obtainable with common milk or oat milk, in addition to brewed teas. Chagee crew members brew the tea utilizing a particular, synthetic intelligence-powered course of that extracts it in beneath a minute, leading to constant brews for each cup. Alongside the teas, Chagee affords pastries from Farmshop, akin to a jasmine tea-infused cruffin, ricotta cake, chocolate chip cookies, and plain croissants.

The minimalist inside of the tea store is clad in blonde wooden with a Hollywood-themed mural on one aspect and a show of the tea brewing course of on the opposite. Behind the counter, staff attend to the brewing machines earlier than calling out orders for pickup. Seating is offered inside at a couple of tables and couches, complemented by extra chairs and tables on the out of doors patio. Noguchi-style lanterns hold overhead, illuminating the room in a comfortable glow, and there are a couple of planters with timber positioned all through the house.

The arrival of Chagee is an thrilling new addition to Westfield Century Metropolis, which lately welcomed South Korean dessert cafe Knotted, and Emma Chamberlain’s cafe, Chamberlain Espresso. However the mall isn’t slowing down anytime quickly — Tremendous Peach, a restaurant from the Momofuku group, in addition to the eating places Katsuya and Casa Dani are set to open later in 2025.

Chagee is positioned at 10250 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90067, and can open on April 26, with a grand opening to comply with on Might 9.