I’m on my way to World Tea Expo in Las Vegas (from 11th-13th June) by a rather round-about route – via San Francisco and Hawaii to meet up with tea friends and give a few presentations.  My first stop is San Fran and as I emerged from passport control and baggage

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I never cease to be amazed and impressed by the many and varied ways in which tea businesses style their shops and tearooms and by the inspirational connections that tea makes to so many different aspects of our lives. Yesterday I went on a journey of discovery to a new store in one of the most fashionable parts of London - the

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While I was in Cape Town last month, I was lucky enough to spend some time with my new tea friend Hajira Khalfe who owns the city’s first speciality tea room, Tea Emporium.  With a background in health and nutrition, Hajira has cleverly taken the theme… read more...

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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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 Last time, I wrote about three new tea companies in Bristol but didn’t have enough room to include a fourth called TART - named for the savoury and sweet tarts that are the speciality of the house.  Great name - short, memorable and to the point!  I had known for… read more...

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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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How I love London in summer!  The hesitant sun this year has kept temperatures… read more...

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 Just over two weeks ago, I wrote that I was enjoying the cool, calm  interior of Babington’s tearoom in Rome.  I first visited this peaceful, very English tearoom (here it is on the left) some 7 or 8 years ago and fell… read more...

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May has been a whirlwind month for me this year - two days after returning home from Las Vegas and San Diego, I flew out to Japan for a week of events in Tokyo and had a wonderful few days in some of the city’s best-known tea locations

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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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