Tea shops · Tampa, United States
Tea shops · Tampa, United StatesTeBella Tea Company
A Tampa tea company opened in 2010, with its flagship on Davis Islands and a counter at Oxford Exchange, selling single-origin teas and house blends from 2 oz.
Every tea here starts at two ounces, so even a reserve oolong from a Taiwanese garden is a seventeen-dollar experiment rather than a commitment to a whole pound.
TeBella Tea was opened in 2010 by Abigail StClair, who worked a series of jobs, among them whale trainer at the Mystic Aquarium, before turning a lifelong passion for tea into her business. Since then she has made tea-buying trips to Japan, China, Sri Lanka and India, and the company has grown from one small shop to four locations in three cities, along with a wholesale business that supplies tea to more than 140 cafés, restaurants and hotels.
Two of those locations are in Tampa. The flagship is at 227 E Davis Blvd, on Davis Islands; the second is TeBella's counter inside Oxford Exchange, at 420 W Kennedy Blvd. The other two are in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. The full range is also sold online, in 2, 4, 8 and 16 oz bags.
The catalogue covers black, green, white and oolong teas, pu-erh, mate, herbal infusions and rooibos, alongside house blends and a line of single-origin teas. Many product pages name the estate or garden: a second-flush Golden Assam from the Aideobarie estate, a Tie Guan Yin from the Pingzhoucun garden in Anxi, an organic Silver Needle from Fujian. Masala Chai at US$ 9 for 2 oz is the easiest way in.
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Where it is
Davis Islands (flagship)
227 E Davis Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606
Oxford Exchange
420 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602
What to buy here
Long Jing (Dragon Well)
Dragon Well
from US$ 13 · 2 oz
A pan-fired Dragon Well with the long, flat leaf of the style, and the plainest way into the green shelf.
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Earl Grey
from US$ 10 · 2 oz
The everyday cup of the range, sold in the same 2 oz bag as everything else, so it can share a bag order with something less familiar.
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Masala Chai
from US$ 9 · 2 oz
The lowest-priced of the TeBella teas listed here, and a spiced black chai: the one to bring home for milk, sugar and a saucepan.
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The one worth the trip
GABA Oolong
from US$ 17 · 2 oz
A GABA oolong from the gardens of Ming Jian, in Nantou County, Taiwan, filed in TeBella's Reserve Collection: the leaves are processed in a sealed, oxygen-free container, a technique first developed in Japan in the 1980s. It is the most unusual tea in this list and the one to ask about at the Davis Islands flagship.
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| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masala Chai | Chai | from US$ 9 | 2 oz |
| Earl Grey | Black tea | from US$ 10 | 2 oz |
| Dragon Well | Green tea | from US$ 13 | 2 oz |
| GABA Oolong | Oolong tea | from US$ 17 | 2 oz |
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