Tea shops · United States
Tea shops · United StatesOur favorite tea shops in Tacoma
2 places we'd send a friend to, with prices we checked ourselves.
Tacoma has one real tea house and it is a good one: Mad Hat, on Broadway in the downtown Theater District, with more than 300 teas and herbs sold in 50 g steps, from a 8 US$ genmaicha to a 17 US$ Jin Jun Mei. The rest of the city is thinner than its size suggests — the tea rooms in Old Town, Freighthouse Square and 6th Avenue that guides still list have closed, and the two other genuine tea counters, Obscura on Hilltop and the Jin Jin matcha room on Pacific Avenue, had nothing we could price today. So the second shop on this page is not a tea shop at all but the Pacific Northwest Shop in Proctor, a family gift and specialty-foods store since 1978 whose tea shelf is the regional roll call: MarketSpice, Washington's Finest, Apolis and Felicity Loft, all in sealed packs. Blue Moon Teas, a Tacoma online seller since 1999, fills in the breakfast blacks and a roasted mate.
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Mad Hat Tea Company
Downtown, Broadway (Theater District) · 924 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402
In storeShips onlineHours: Tue–Fri 10:30–17:00 · Sat–Sun 11:00–16:00 · Mon closed· 16 verified pricesAn urban tea house at 924 Broadway that its own site sums up as "over 300 teas and herbs": 58 plain black teas, 18 greens, 10 oolongs, 15 pu-erhs, 18 yerba mates and 31 rooibos on the day we counted, every loose tea sold from 50 g up in 50 g steps at a flat rate. The Chinese blacks are the reason to go — a Yunnan Hong Cha at 9,00 US$, a Keemun Hao Ya A at 12,00 US$, a Golden Monkey at 13,50 US$ and a Jin Jun Mei at 17,00 US$ for 50 g — and the oolong shelf runs from a Wu Yi Shui Xian at 10,00 US$ to a Monkey Picked at 20,00 US$. Greens include a Fukamushi sencha, a Bi Lo Chun and a Dragonwell around fifteen dollars. Closed Mondays.
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Pacific Northwest Shop
Proctor District (North End); also Wallingford, Seattle · 2702 N Proctor Street, Tacoma, WA 98407
In storeShips onlineHours: Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00 · Sun 10:00–17:00· 7 verified pricesThe Proctor District gift shop that Bill and Ann Evans opened in 1978 to sell things made in and inspired by the Pacific Northwest, now run by the second generation, with a sister store in Wallingford, Seattle. It is not a tea shop, but its tea shelf is the region in one place: MarketSpice's cinnamon-orange black at 8,49 US$ the 4 oz, Apolis Craft Tea's Sweet Cream Earl Grey at 17,99 US$, Felicity Loft's Mariner's Chai at 14,99 US$ and Washington's Finest Tea's Tacoma Cinnamon Rose at 14,99 US$, all in sealed packs and all available for store pickup. Open every day, until 18:00 on weekdays and Saturdays.
Also worth a visit
- Jin Jin Matcha · Downtown, Pacific Avenue · 1019 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402No online prices yet
A matcha and tea room downtown, open every day from 9:00 to 16:00, that works with one family of tea farmers for its ceremonial grade and curates its leaf list with MIRO Tea in Seattle. The one take-home product with a size, a 30 g ceremonial tin, was sold out in every variant today, and the loose teas on its ordering site are cafe servings; when the tin comes back, so does a price. Visit website →
- Obscura · Hilltop, Martin Luther King Jr Way · 1308 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA 98405No online prices yet
A tea house on Hilltop whose online catalogue is live and priced by the gram — Assam, Golden Monkey, Iron Goddess, a hand-rolled white — but whose site today describes itself only as a wholesale company, with pickup switched off and no hours, and a listing that marks it closed. We would rather leave it unpriced than guess whether the door is open. Visit website →
Teas you can find in Tacoma
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