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THE START OF THE RETURN .With a business that is centred around offering a tailored and personal tea service we are taking a slow & considered route to the new normal. Our focus is on ensuring our experience is safe and enjoyable for all. Here is the first tiny step - on our next click & collect date (Friday 10.7.20) in addition to our usual click & collect service we are opening the Bath Tea House to pre booked customers 11-4pm. This will allow us to welcome guests & ensure that all the new systems we have in place are working...

So many people have asked about our much loved logo over the years - a topic we discussed on last weeks Instagram Live. Head over to our latest video on IGTV where we we share the inspiration behind it & introduce you to our great and talented friend Mariko [IG @mariko.aruga.illustration] who created our logo and also illustrated our book with Pavillion Books 'Tales of the Tea Trade'.As an added bonus Mariko shares one of her illustrations with us in the video - so why not make a cup of tea, grab a pen and follow Mariko as she recreates one of...

This is the first episode of ‘Tales of the Tea Trade’ a series of You Tube videos made to accompany our Saturday Instagram Live sessions. These sessions bring insight from our lives as tea merchants but also invite diverse perspectives from many of the many of the partners we work with around the world. . In this first episode we share how our business started & hear from one of our tea partners, Bhawesh about his life in Darjeeling & the impact of COVID-19 on the region.

Rob made his first trip to Kenya in 2017 with trusted friends and advisors Sharon & Nick, both totally committed to brining greater transparency and prosperity to the Kenyan Tea Industry [& who you can read more about in our book Tales of the Tea Trade]- This was a trip that raised a number of questions for us that we explored in a series of blogs that you can read below.  These provide the background to the importance of a considered approach when bringing Orthodox Kenyan Teas to the Tea House 1. The challenges of sourcing tea in this amazing country...