Since I started doing Korean drama reviews and I really enjoy exploring coffee shops, I thought I’d do a tea shop review. Since this is my first tea shop review, I’m pretty much just spit balling my review. There’s no structure. It’s just what I feel. As I start to review more tea shops and coffee shops, I’ll start to have more structure to these reviews.
Brief tea shop background
There are 3 of these tea shops located around Tucson; the one we went to was on East University. This review covers only that location.
It’s arguably the most popular tea store for studying, working, or hanging out since it’s so close to the University of Arizona. When we went, there were a lot of people studying there. There’s so many seats available. They also have decently priced tea drinks.
Tea drinks: 8/10
They have a huge selection of tea drinks. I can’t even list them. The picture above shows a wall of all their teas. I got a Fruit Gusher that’s got hibiscus tea with fresh strawberry lemonade. It was super good – note that if you do get this and you don’t have a sweet tooth, go low on the sweetness level.
They do serve coffee as well. They had a cold brew on tap, but I didn’t get it since I had my tea drink from before.
Their tea drinks are decently priced. I got a small drink for $5. You can go for refills too! My first refill was $1.6 (I don’t know if it changes based on size). The second refill was free. I asked if I could go for a third, but they said I had to pay full price again. I was like damn…could you imagine if they did unlimited refills? Pretty sure they’d go out of business
Productivity: 10/10
This is easily a place where you can bang out some solid work.
There’s plenty of tables to sit at.
There’s also a lot of wall sockets available for you to plug in your laptop.
The internet is great. I surprisingly didn’t have much internet issues. Maybe it’s because I was there in the morning when there weren’t as many people. The connection was easy and fast. You’d be surprised how slow and spotty the internet is at some of the coffee shops I’ve studied at before.
Since it’s close to the university, there’s students studying here all the time. They help set up the environment to make it feel like this is a space to get work done.
Décor: 9/10
The inside had a very nature-y feel. There was a lot of brown and green colors, some big lantern like lights hanging on the ceiling, and a window filled with plant vines.
The study area was pretty clean.
Things were also pretty spacious as well. It didn’t feel very cramped.
I placed this rating here because you want to study in a place that’s visually appealing. If the shop looks rundown or dirty, you wouldn’t want to study there.
Parking: 9/10
It was pretty easy to find parking close by.
This rating can definitely change. Since I was here on a Saturday morning (around 9:30AM), there weren’t that many cars around so there were a lot of spots to park right in front of the shop.
If it does get busy, there is a free parking garage close by. It’s probably like a 5 minute walk at most.
I include this criteria on here because being able to park fast and close is important. You don’t want to spend a long time trying to find parking. You want to use that time to work at the coffee shop.
I hope you enjoyed this Tucson tea shop review! Let me know what you think and if you want me to review other tea or coffee shops!
