# Tea Shop Website Example: Leaf and Kettle Tea Merchants

Leaf and Kettle Tea Merchants is invented, and this tea shop website shows how a tea merchant can sell loose leaf tea and teaware online while filling its tea room and tastings. Teas are priced by weight, a brewing guide gives the water, leaf and time, the tea room menu lists allergens, and tastings lead to a request form.

Live sample: https://aiwebmaker.co/sample-websites/tea-shop-website-sample

A tea merchant sells something most buyers cannot judge until it is brewed, so the page has to do some of the brewing for them. The Leaf and Kettle sample opens on a shop of numbered tins, with dried leaves drifting slowly down across the photo. Eight products follow: five teas priced by weight, two pieces of teaware and an Enquire card for cafés and offices. Each tea card says how the tea tastes and how it was grown, and the chamomile card warns people allergic to daisy family plants. That is the kind of tea store website that sells the leaf and the knowledge together.

The brewing guide is the section regulars come back to, so the sample sets it straight after the shop as a table. Each row gives the water temperature, the amount of leaf for a cup, the steeping time and how many brews the leaf will take. The tea room follows, with a menu that prices pots, tasting flights and cakes and names every allergen in them. Guided tastings appear as three tiers, from a ninety minute introduction to a private evening, each with its own button that fills in the request form for that tasting. A shop, a guide and a room to drink in, all on one page, give a buyer three reasons to visit.

## What is on this sample website?

| Page | What it is for | Sections |
|---|---|---|
| Opening view | Loose leaf tea, weighed out and brewed with care | Shop loose leaf tea; Book a tasting |
| Shop | Teas and teaware | Breakfast black $9 / 100 g; Steamed green $12 / 50 g; Rolled oolong $14 / 50 g; Spiced chai $10 / 100 g; Chamomile $8 / 50 g; Glass teapot $38; Gaiwan set $32; Café supply by enquiry |
| Brewing guide | Brewing guide | Water; Leaf for 250 ml; Steep; Brews |
| Tea room | A tea room behind the shelves | Pots to taste; Cakes and allergens |
| Tea room menu | Tea room menu | Pot of tea $5; Tasting flight $12; Scone $4; Almond cake $5; Chai $4.50; Afternoon tea for two $38 |
| Tastings | Guided tastings | Tea from leaf to cup $30; Oolong and the gaiwan $36; Private tasting from $220 |
| Gallery | Tins, cups and steam | Pouring; Tasting; Weighing |
| Questions | Questions over a pot | Caffeine; Storage; Allergies; Tasting first; Café supply; Sending abroad |
| Tasting request | Book a tasting or plan a supply | Tasting or supply; Preferred date; Seats or cups; Name and email; Notes |

## Leaf, water and time: what a tea merchant's page should pour out

### Loose leaf priced by the gram, teaware by the piece

Tea is bought in small weights, and buyers like to know what a stated amount costs before deciding how much to try. The sample prices each tea for 50 g or 100 g and lets the buyer pick a bigger bag on the card. Teaware carries its own choices, such as the glaze of a gaiwan, while café supply carries Enquire instead, since a supply price depends on how much the café pours. Leaf and Kettle's AI Web Maker store holds those weights and glazes as product options, gathers them in a bag, takes discount codes and adds the delivery charge at checkout. Pricing by weight lets a curious buyer try a new tea without a large outlay.

### A brewing guide that fixes bitter cups

Most disappointing cups of tea come from water that is too hot or leaves left in too long. A brewing table with temperature, leaf weight, time and number of brews solves that for every style the shop sells. Printing the same figures on each bag, as the sample's strip promises, keeps the advice with the tea at home. A rule of thumb under the table, cooler and shorter for delicate leaves, helps buyers adapt to teas the table does not list. Good tea shop website design treats the brewing guide as part of the product.

### Cakes listed with their allergens beside the price

A tea room adds food to a shop, and food brings allergen duties that loose leaf does not. The sample lists each cake and scone with the allergens it contains, such as gluten, milk, egg and nuts, in plain words beside the price. It also admits that the kitchen handles all of them, so cross contact cannot be ruled out. Food labelling rules vary by country, and a careful owner checks what applies locally. A tea room website that names allergens this clearly earns the trust of people who must read every label.

### Tastings that fill the quiet evenings

Guided tastings turn a shop into a place people return to, and they sell tea long after the session ends. The sample offers three, each with a price per seat or per group, the group size and the day it runs. A button on each tasting picks it in the request form, which asks for a date, the number of guests and any allergies. The shop replies to confirm the seats, and payment is arranged directly with the business. Clear tasting tiers bring in groups that would never find the shop by walking past.

## Guides to building a tea shop website

- [Tea Shop Website Cost, Brewing Guides and Loose Leaf Sold by the Gram](https://aiwebmaker.co/blog/food-hospitality/tea-shop-website-cost): Tea merchants and tea rooms: annual hosting first, then tea types, brewing temperatures, fresh storage, caffeine notes, tastings and selling leaf online.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can visitors sit down for a pot at Leaf and Kettle?

Not anywhere, since Leaf and Kettle is an invented tea merchant. Its teas, brewing table and tea room menu were drafted by hand by a tea drinker on the AI Web Maker team, and the photographs of tins and teapots were produced with the platform's image engine. A real tea shop starts from a builder draft based on the owner's own notes, and every detail can be changed.

### Should a tea shop explain caffeine on its website?

Briefly and carefully. Say which styles usually carry more or less caffeine and that herbal teas such as chamomile have none, without giving health advice. Anyone who is pregnant, or for whom caffeine affects a health condition, should be pointed to a health professional.

### Can tea buyers choose the bag size online?

Yes. A tea can be offered in 50 g, 100 g or larger bags, the shopper picks one on the card, and the checkout adds delivery for the address. A discount code can mark a new season's tea, and café supply, which has no set price, carries an Enquire button.

### What does a year of the tea merchant's site come to?

The tea shop's hosting bill is $119 a year, or $19 in a month paid singly, and the domain costs whatever its ending costs, from about 400 on offer. Building and previewing the shop are never billed.

Updated 11 November 2026 · AI Web Maker