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The city guide · United StatesTea shops inMesa.
Mesa is a thin market for tea and most searches for it land you in Tempe, Chandler or Scottsdale instead, so this page is short on purpose: two shops that are genuinely inside Mesa and genuinely sell leaf by weight. One is a herb apothecary a block off Main Street downtown that weighs tea by the ounce with a two-ounce minimum, which makes it the cheapest way to try five things at once in the whole Phoenix area. The other is an Asian grocery on South Dobson Road whose tea aisle leans Taiwanese, with high-mountain oolong and jasmine by the 150 g bag. Between them you get black, green, oolong, chai, matcha and chrysanthemum; neither carries the other's strengths.
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SW Herb
Downtown Mesa, N Center Street
5 prices listedSW Herb
148 N Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85201
A downtown Mesa apothecary that weighs tea by the ounce, with a two-ounce minimum and the lowest prices in the valley.
In storeShips onlineSince 2005Tue–Fri 11:00–17:00 · Sat 10:00–15:00 · Sun–Mon closed
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A herb apothecary on North Center Street, one block off Main Street in downtown Mesa, that sells tea the way it sells everything else: loose, by the ounce, with a two-ounce minimum on the order. That is the lowest entry price on this page by a wide margin — an English Breakfast at 3,18 US$ the ounce, a Chunmee green at 3,68 US$, an organic Green Chai at 3,04 US$, a Jasmine Green at 4,10 US$ and matcha powder at 7,57 US$. The site says the shop was opened in 2005 by herbalist Kathleen Gould and moved to this Mesa address in 2008, and that it is now run by her son; it also runs a herbal certification course and guided plant walks. No oolong, white or pu-erh on the loose-leaf shelf.
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Website: swherb.com The everyday option
5 prices listedSonya Market
111 S Dobson Rd Suite 105, Mesa, AZ 85202
An Asian grocery and wholesaler on South Dobson Road in west Mesa, open every day from 11:00 to 19:00, whose tea aisle is far better than the phrase "grocery store" suggests. The leaf is largely Taiwanese and the product pages give origin, brewing temperature and tasting notes: an 888 Alishan high-mountain oolong at 35,00 US$ for 150 g, a Sweet Osmanthus green at 25,00 US$ for the same weight, jasmine dragon pearls at 25,00 US$ for 8 oz and a plain jasmine at 10,00 US$ for 3 oz, plus baby chrysanthemum buds at 10,00 US$. There is no black tea in the catalogue, and pickup takes two to four days rather than being ready the same afternoon.
In storeShips onlineOpen every day 11:00–19:00
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Website: sonyamarket.com
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Tan Hua
Mekong Plaza, S Dobson Road · 20 S Dobson Rd, Mesa, AZ 85202
Website: tanhuamesa.comA Chinese tea and herb shop with a real Mesa storefront and an online catalogue we could not read: every request to the site is answered with a bot challenge instead of a page, so not a single price of theirs could be confirmed. Worth a visit in person and worth another try from us later.
Ask for prices in storePair Cupworks
Downtown Mesa, inside Cider Corps · 31 S Robson St #103, Mesa, AZ 85210
Website: paircupworks.comA small counter inside a cider taproom downtown with a short, well-chosen list of Taiwanese and Chinese leaf. Every one of its five loose teas is marked sold out today, so there is nothing for us to price; when they restock, Mesa becomes a three-shop city.
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