The Origin is a plant-based cafe on the corner of Westminster and Cranford Streets in St Albans, Christchurch. The cafe is built around specialty tea and coffee and pure vegan, vegetarian Asian fusion food, with European and Asian styles on the kitchen's menu. Its tea is hand-brewed and selected from Zealong Tea Estate, which the website describes as New Zealand's only commercial tea estate producing 100% organic tea. Coffee beans are single origin and small-batch roasted.
The cafe also has an online store with teas, coffee and merchandise. Its tea blends are listed at $38.95, and a $21 item is listed at $19 on sale, as at 2026. One customer praises the breakfast, saying it was vegan and temple-style food with no onion or garlic, and the coffee and tea infusers on the counter. The website says the cafe was nominated as the top cafe in Christchurch by More FM.