Monday, October 18, 2010

Finally....


Dear Tea Friends, 
 
 I can finally announce it: The Tea Gallery has moved to a new location!
 Not that it was much of a secret at this point. (I may have blabbed a bit to some tea friends who ended up blabbing on certain internet forums...) 
 We're partnering up with longtime friend, Tim of The Mandarin's Tearoom and sharing his spacious studio in downtown Manhattan. While both tea companies will remain separate entities, the decision to share a tearoom was based on years of mutual respect for each other's tea and principles. It's a match made in heaven as Michael and Tim blend their Hong Kong sensibilities and transform the former design studio into an elegant tearoom. Our old tea table was just set up and touches of the Mandarin have change the look of the original setup. Tim's teapots and wooden coasters are scattered across the table, as is a cigar or two. There is always a break for tea in the afternoon. I couldn't be happier working along side Michael and now I'm also learning from Tim. 
 
We're on old Howard Street, right above bustling Chinatown and below the designer shops of SoHo. The same policies that we had at the original space still apply. We're operating by appointments but we are also adding a slew of events to help celebrate our new look. Our official opening is on Nov.1st and we're kicking off with a week's worth of daily tea events. For more information, see the Events page.
I'll be posting pictures of our new space in the next post.

So when are you coming over for some tea?





4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good news... congratulations on a new venture. no more arguing with a doorman. ;-)
where exactly is it located? i will probably be able to make it for all 6 sessions (coming from Fulton).

nada said...

Congratulations! I think the pooling of resources will be produce great results. I don't think you could have picked a better person to share a space with,

Looking forward to seeing some photos of your collaboration. Hope I can make it sometime to share a pot or two of tea.

I wish you every success & hope the people of NY appreciate what they've got right under their noses.

n.

Anonymous said...

Will you offer international shipping now?

yumcha said...

Thank you all for the kind words. My email box was filled up this morning :)

Address info is on our Visit Us page.

Nada, I hope you can come visit us soon.

As for international shipping... I will be addressing that very soon.

Looks like I'll be putting up post just to answer all the questions from this one!