🍛 Restaurants & food · South
Bois Chéri tea estate
A tea factory and museum in the green southern hills, with a tasting of flavoured teas in a chalet overlooking a lake.
🚗 From the villa55 min · 35.4 kmoff-peak estimate
⏱️ Time needed1.5–2.5 hnot counting the drive
🕓 Best time of day☀️ Morning · 🕛 Midday
💰 PriceRs 600–1,500 (CHF 10–26)Per person for a main course and a drink.
🕘 Opening hoursMon–Sat 08:30–16:30 (factory runs on weekday mornings).
Bois Chéri is the island's oldest tea plantation. The tour shows the museum and the factory (processing on weekday mornings), then you drive up through the tea gardens to a chalet on a hill for a tasting of black and vanilla-flavoured teas, with a view over the plantations, a lake and the south coast.
The restaurant serves tea-infused dishes.
🍽️ Restaurant
- Food
- Tea tasting & restaurant
- Price
- $$$$ · about Rs 600–1,500 (CHF 10–26) per person
- Must try
- Vanilla tea, Tea-smoked dishes
- Booking
- Walk in; book lunch.
- Hours
- Mon–Sat 08:30–16:30 (factory runs on weekday mornings).
Getting there
Driving route from the villa
🚗 By car: 55 min (35.4 km) off-peak. Directions in Google Maps ↗