Teaser茶舍 Sommerville is a fresh tea and dessert shop at Unit 8e, 119 Meadowland Drive in Cockle Bay, Manukau City, holding a 3.3 rating from 50 Google reviews. Reviewers praise the fresh, healthy drinks and flavour variety, the bubble waffles, sundaes and good-value winter specials, and the friendly counter service, though some note the wait.
Freshness is the whole game in this trade: drinks are brewed, shaken or blended to order, so queues build at after-school and evening peaks, but the reward is tea that tastes bright rather than tired. Regulars tune sugar and ice levels to taste and judge a shop by whether the tea base reads as actual brewed tea rather than syrup. Desserts reward timing too, since waffle-style treats are cooked to order and slow the queue at busy hours.
Tucked into the Sommerville shops on Meadowland Drive, this east Auckland counter pours that made-to-order spirit for Cockle Bay.