Lizzie Brown
15 April, 2025
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Popular Indian street food chain celebrates Birmingham birthday with floral iced tea launch

Birmingham-based Indian street food chain, Karak Chaii, is celebrating the first birthday of its Coventry Road store by launching a thirst-quenching new addition to its menu.

Popular Indian street food chain Karak Chaii has launched two new iced teas flavours - hibiscus & lemon and jasmine & peach.

Foodies in Birmingham are invited to enjoy a sip of Karak Chaii’s brand new floral iced teas with two refreshing flavours to choose from - hibiscus and lemon, or jasmine and peach.


The new drinks launch coincides with celebrations for the company’s Coventry Road store in Small Heath, which is marking one year since opening its doors. Founded in Birmingham in 2019 by husband and wife duo Sughir and Sara Javed, Karak Chaii, is now one of the UK’s fastest growing Indian street food chains with cafes in Hall Green, Ward End and Handsworth.

Karak Chaii’s mouth-watering menu of all day breakfasts, small bites, sandwiches and desserts, takes its inspiration from street food from the Indian subcontinent.
Karak Chaii’s mouth-watering menu of all day breakfasts, small bites, sandwiches and desserts, takes its inspiration from street food from the Indian subcontinent. Credit: Karak Chaii


The new iced tea range boosts Karak Chaii’s existing drinks offering, which includes bubble tea, limbu paani, lassi, falooda, and the company’s signature chaii - a rich and pleasantly spiced desi-brewed tea which took nine months to perfect. These new additions perfectly complement Karak Chaii’s food menu, boasting a bumper selection of all day breakfasts, small bites, sandwiches, and desserts.


Karak Chaii co-founder, Sughir Javed, said: “With the weather warming up, now is the time for us to introduce our fruity and floral infusion iced teas. After months of testing and perfecting the blend, we can’t wait for our customers to experience these vibrant, refreshing flavours to help them cool off over the summer months.”


Karak Chaii draws inspiration from Indian subcontinent street food, as well as beloved family recipes handed down by the couple’s late mothers. Since its inception in 2019, the public’s love for delicious, authentic street food has seen the business scale to 22 stores nationwide, with 13 new store openings in the pipeline this year.


For more information visit, www.karakchaii.co.uk/