Tea Zaanti

Tea Zaanti sits at 1944 South 1100 East in Sugar House, and describes itself as Salt Lake's only tea and wine café. The owners, Becky and Scott, run it as a neighbourhood room: indoor seating, a heated and dog-friendly patio, free wifi and parking, a cup of any of its more than 85 teas for 4 US$, espresso, a build-your-own charcuterie counter and a wine list that comes out in the evening, with wine nights and winemaker events on the calendar.

The retail side is the same list, packed three ways: a 0.5 oz sample, a 1.5 oz tin and a 3 oz pouch, with a few teas also in 8 oz. The tins run from a 9.95 US$ Yunnan black through organic English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Ceylon, Keemun and Assam Reserve, a second-flush Darjeeling, Sencha, organic Dragon Well and Genmaicha, Ti Kuan Yin and an Ali Shan high-mountain oolong at 22.95 US$, plus matcha, rooibos and chamomile. Spent leaves are composted and the to-go cups are compostable; the shop says it is working toward becoming a benefit company.

If you have drunk tea at a Salt Lake restaurant, there is a fair chance it was Zaanti's: the shop lists some twenty cafés and restaurants around the city that pour its teas, Coffee Garden, Pago and Table X among them. It is closed on Mondays and opens at 9 the rest of the week, later into the evening on Thursday and Friday. Orders over 35 US$ ship free. Try a cup of the Ali Shan on the patio before deciding on the tin.