With snow and ice covering all of Britain this week, I’m not travelling anywhere so, instead, I thought this was the ideal time to catch up with tea shops and tea rooms around the country and find out how they fared during the festive Christmas period in terms of sales and customer choices. I asked a few of my tea friends if sales in

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 I had to travel to Bristol a week ago and so took the opportunity of visiting some of the new tea stores and tea rooms that are attracting a good deal of attention there.  Bristol is a vibrant, lively town with a colourful mix of all different ages and types of people – perhaps a bit like a smaller version of London

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I am just back home after a week of travelling - five days at this year’s buzzy, exciting World Tea Expo in Las Vegas and 2 days in San Diego where I had a wonderful day at Tea Upon Chatsworth, one of the prettiest tearooms I have ever visited.Expo this year was smaller… read more...

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The positive news about the success of new tea shops, tea bars and tea e-businesses around the UK continues with more new companies opening in several locations outside London.

Liverpool’s Brew opened in the summer of 2008 with its slogan “Letting the tea out of the bag!” (echoing Yumchaa’s demands during their street demo of two weeks ago to “liberate… read more...

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Yesterday evening, I ran a tea class for six 8 year olds who make up the Cookery Club at a local school and towards the end of the hour we spent together, one of the boys looked up at me over his beaker of Assam tea and said, “I’ll remember this moment!”. Such a grown-up thing to say… read more...

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 A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the opening of a chic new tea boutique in London’s Burlington Arcade where Tamsin Lafferty is selling teas from… read more...

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