Tea shops · Minneapolis, United States
Tea shops · Minneapolis, United StatesNorthern Lights Tea Company
A Lowry Hill East tea shop that started in 2006 in the corner of a St. Paul bookshop, prices everything by the ounce, and is taking a new name: Yutori.
Everything on this shelf is priced by the ounce and down to the cent: $3.75 for the orange-blossom oolong, $10.97 for the organic Long Jing.
The Northern Lights Tea Company started in 2006 as a corner inside a bookshop in St. Paul, built around a blender named Sandy, and in 2008 it took a shop of its own in the downtown Minneapolis skyway system. Her husband Roland kept the books. The two retired in 2025 and moved to Spain, and the company is now gradually changing its name to Yutori, after the Japanese idea of having room to spare.
The list is short, organic-leaning and priced to the cent by the ounce. Black tea takes the most room: organic English Breakfast at $3.85, Earl Grey at $4.11, Irish Breakfast at $4.18, an autumnal Makaibari Darjeeling at $4.42, Assam TGFOP at $5.05 and a lavender Earl Grey at $7.56. Five greens run from Lucky Dragon Hyson up to organic matcha and organic Dragonwell. Two oolongs, a chamomile, two rooibos and a Cochin masala chai finish the seventeen.
The shop lists 2703 Girard Ave S, Unit 114, in Lowry Hill East, and publishes weekday hours only: nine to three, Monday through Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. It sells the same range online, and takes questions about private events, gifts and catering through the site. Under either name the sourcing line has not moved — organic and fair-trade wherever the shop can get it, which is why so many entries carry the word in the product name itself.
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Where it is
Lowry Hill East (Wedge)
2703 Girard Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408
On Girard Ave S in Lowry Hill East, about a ten-minute walk from the Uptown counter.
Hours: Mon–Fri 9:00–15:00 · Sat–Sun closed
What to buy here
Darjeeling
Autumnal Makaibari (Darjeeling)
US$ 4.42 · 1 oz
The only tea here named after the garden it came from — Makaibari, in Darjeeling — and listed by its flush, autumnal, rather than as plain Darjeeling.
See our page on this tea →Genmaicha
Genmaicha, Organic
US$ 6.43 · 1 oz
Green tea and toasted rice, certified organic, sold by the single ounce on a shelf where black tea takes up the most room.
See our page on this tea →Masala Chai
Cochin Masala Chai
US$ 4.16 · 1 oz
The only chai on the list, and one of the few items here that carries a place name instead of a style name.
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The one worth the trip
Dragonwell (Long Jing), Organic
US$ 10.97 · 1 oz
At $10.97 an ounce this is the most expensive tea on the shelf, nearly three times the cheapest, and the only Chinese green sold under its own origin name. It is also the clearest test of the shop's by-the-ounce habit: the priciest thing here still comes in the same one-ounce bag as the $3.75 oolong, so trying it costs the price of a coffee rather than the price of a tin.
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List prices read on the shop's own product pages. Open a tea to see who else sells it.
| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ooloong Orange Blossom | Oolong tea | US$ 3.75 | 1 oz |
| Engl. Breakfast, Organic | Black tea | US$ 3.85 | 1 oz |
| Cinnamon Rooibos | Rooibos | US$ 3.86 | 1 oz |
| Earl Grey, Organic | Black tea | US$ 4.11 | 1 oz |
| Lucky Dragon Hyson | Green tea | US$ 4.14 | 1 oz |
| Cochin Masala Chai | Chai | US$ 4.16 | 1 oz |
| Irish Breakfast Tea, Organic | Black tea | US$ 4.18 | 1 oz |
| Rooibos Afrikaana | Rooibos | US$ 4.26 | 1 oz |
| Autumnal Makaibari (Darjeeling) | Black tea | US$ 4.42 | 1 oz |
| Assam, TGFOP | Black tea | US$ 5.05 | 1 oz |
| Jasmine, Organic | Green tea | US$ 5.10 | 1 oz |
| Chamomile | Herbal infusion | US$ 5.28 | 1 oz |
| Five Peaks | Oolong tea | US$ 5.45 | 1 oz |
| Genmaicha, Organic | Green tea | US$ 6.43 | 1 oz |
| Lavender Earl Grey Organic | Black tea | US$ 7.56 | 1 oz |
| Matcha, Organic | Matcha | US$ 8.02 | 1 oz |
| Dragonwell (Long Jing), Organic | Green tea | US$ 10.97 | 1 oz |
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