Tea in Bengaluru has a strong and highly visible presence shaped by India’s deep tea traditions, urban café culture, and everyday street consumption. Across the city’s neighborhoods, tea appears through roadside tea stalls, small cafés, office canteens, and restaurants where chai is served throughout the day as a quick, inexpensive refreshment. In business districts and residential areas alike, tea vendors provide spiced milk tea that functions as a daily social ritual for workers, students, and visitors. Cultural pathways are supported by India’s vast tea production network, national distribution systems, and the longstanding popularity of chai in daily life. Consumption patterns are influenced by affordability, convenience, and the role of tea stalls as informal gathering spaces where conversations and business interactions often take place. Compared with other beverages in Bengaluru, tea functions as a mainstream daily staple deeply integrated into the rhythm of urban life. With continued urban growth, café expansion, and enduring demand for chai, tea in Bengaluru remains firmly positioned as one of the city’s most recognizable and accessible everyday drinks.