At the SF International Tea Festival, guests have the opportunity to savor hundreds of different types of teas from our local and global vendors.
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Annie's T Cakes
Annie’s T Cakes is an Asian American, woman-owned business making vegan Asian snacks and desserts in Oakland, CA. Annie’s T Cakes has partnered with organizations of all sizes, recently making custom almond cookies for A24 Films premier of Everything Everywhere All At Once. All products are handmade with a mission to create a more culturally diverse and ecologically sound food space.
Art by Laine Wiesemann
Featured in the North Lounge.
Laine Weisemann is a local artist. She creates whimsical paintings capturing local scenes—can you spot the teapot in each painting?
Aura Tea
Aura makes boba for the people who aren’t served by mainstream boba. Whether that’s due to preference or need, we’ve crafted your dream boba you can’t find anywhere else. Our transparency with drink making is all about holding boba to the highest standards - that means real loose leaf tea and all-natural ingredients.
Bardo Tea
The act of having tea creates a moment in between time. Bardo: The Space Between. Curator of fine teas and teaware from around the world.
Charlotte Truffles
Our purpose at Charlotte Truffles is to infuse chocolates and sweet treats with classic cultural flavors to help people reconnect with their own heritage and to discover a new world of flavors.
Our world is filled with people — and now chocolates — filled with a variety of flavor stories…and we’re here to celebrate them all!
Chico Chai
We brew and blend fresh chai by hand, from scratch. Our chai concentrate is more spiced and less sweet than most, and we have a variety of loose leaf chai blends that you can customize to your own taste.
Cuzen Matcha/World Matcha Inc
A CA-based tea company and food-tech startup founded by two Japanese tea enthusiasts, Eijiro Tsukada and Oki Hatta, with a mission to bring authentic matcha into people’s daily lives with ease and an open mind. We share freshly ground matcha while encouraging the adoption of sustainable systems.
Effie's Homemade
Behold the Biscuit! The first bite of an Effie’s biscuit is a moment of pure delight. Lightly sweet with a bright finish of salt, they’re more refined than a cookie, more dynamic than a cracker. Savor on their own or as a perfect companion for tea and coffee.
Freshcarton
We are a SF Bay Area based tea company focusing on 100% pure Indian Tea. We carry single origin teas from the well-known tea estates and also work with some niche tea gardens of Darjeeling, Assam, Sikkim and Nilgiri. Most of our teas are unique blends that we have perfected over the years working with distinguished independent tea tasters and from our customers’ feedback. We have a wide selection of black teas, a few varieties of green teas and some healthy options like Turmeric Tea and Ginger tea.
GT's Living Foods
Featured in the North Lounge. Sunday only.
GT's Living Foods is a CPG brand that specializes in the fermentation process. We strive to bring health and wellness to our community through real, raw products.
Harney & Sons Fine Teas
From its humble beginnings to today’s international reputation, Harney & Sons has stayed true to its simple promise to deliver customers the finest quality tea possible. As the third generation of Harneys continues to carry out that mission, including educating tea lovers about fascinating tea traditions and types of tea found around the world, Harney & Sons customers are discovering their own passion for tea through the products and experiences we offer.
Herbs & Kettles
Herbs & Kettles is an Atlanta based family business with roots in India. Through travel we directly source single origin, single batch teas from small farmers across India and personally select their best batches. Our chais, loose leaf teas, artisanal tea blends, herbal blends and golden lattes are created keeping in mind wellness, flavor, season and terroir.
Jade Chocolates
Jade Chocolates is an internationally awarded chocolate company specializing in blending teas, spices and tropical fruits from Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Jayme & Tea
With a heart eager to share Taiwanese artisanal teas and culture worldwide, Jayme & Tea curates tea events in different countries, hoping to bring cultures and people together through the art of tea. Jayme & Tea has extended the reach of Taiwanese tea to 14 countries across the globe, including Michelin restaurants like Terre in Ireland and Frantzén in Sweden.
JusTea
JusTea stands for Justly Made Tea! We offer the first farmer-direct teas from Kenya, including rare PURPLE TEA, containing more antioxidants and half the caffeine. Come to our booth and say JAMBO (Hello in Swahili) for a special BONUS DISCOUNT :)
K&K Chai
We are a boutique tea company offering handcrafted tea blends made with premium teas and all real ingredients from around the world. Because everyone deserves to chai something better.
Kasa Chai
Kasa Chai is a San Francisco-based company dedicated to the art of Chai. Founded in 2008 by Anamika, Kasa Chai has become a cult favorite in the Bay Area and beyond. Hand-blended and packed in San Francisco, our Chai features premium loose-leaf black tea leaves, combined with a harmonious blend of whole ground spices and sugar. Come try the best chai in San Francsico!
Kitefin Teas & Sundries
Kitefin Teas & Sundries sells fun, funky, and functional loose-leaf tea blends, all made by hand in Los Angeles. Find us at farmer's markets and craft fairs throughout the greater LA area!
Nepal Tea Collective
Nepal Tea Collective is a public benefit corporation led by first and second generation tea producers from Nepal. Sourcing loose-leaf organic teas directly from small-holder, sustainable farms in Nepal, Nepal Tea Collective distributes the freshest, packed-at-origin orthodox Nepali teas all over the world. Nepal Tea Collective employs a transparent direct-to-consumer model that bolsters community building between farmers and tea-lovers.
Old Ways Tea
Old Ways Tea is a California-based company dedicated to providing you the unique oolong and black teas grown by our family and friends in Wuyishan.
Pure Puer Tea
Raw Tea for your Health. Grown in the mountains in Yunnan, China from old and ancient tea trees, and aged in the famous Russian River Valley vineyards of Sonoma County.
SAKU Tea
SAKU produces an innovative & delicious collection of wellness latte blends with nourishing superfoods & adaptogenic ingredients based in Turmeric, Beetroot, Matcha. We’ve spent years balancing the flavors & are devoted to using only pure, certified organic ingredients. The blends are vegan, organic, free from sugar and have no fillers.
Seven Senses Organic
We are a unique, premium, organic, Greek tea brand that focuses on product purity, sustainability and offering the freshest organic herbal teas on the market. Drinking our teas will have a positive impact on your emotional, spiritual and physical health, as it has done for Greeks for thousands of years.
SILK & JADE
SILK & JADE is a boutique tea house steeped in providing a mindfully curated tea experience, specializing in premium oolong teas and quality ingredients from Taiwan.
Sips Global Teas
Sips Global Teas specializing in selling exotic fusions teas from Africa, Asia and South America. Our customers will have the opportunity to select from 30 plus unique teas blends, and; sample teas before purchasing, participate in our tea tastings events, and enroll in our hands-on tea blending workshops.
Smile Tea/Kagoshima Seicha
In May 2017 "Smile Tea" was born. The name pays homage to tea blending specialist Yuki's smile, and his passion for making people happy. Since 1881, our family-owned tea company has been sourcing and growing the highest-grade organic green tea and matcha in the pristine mountains of Kagoshima Prefecture, at the southernmost tip of Japan. Our motto, "one drop connects people" is very special to us. We believe one drop of tea connects family, friends and all people. Please join us for a sip of tea. We hope you smile.
Sporgy Mushrooms
Sporgy is a small, woman-owned mushroom company dedicated to creating high-quality mushroom teas, extracts, grow kits and so much more. With sustainability and health in mind, our products redefine the way you think about mushrooms. We are - "Making mushrooms more attractive".
Sugimoto Tea Company
Since our establishment in 1946, Sugimoto Tea Company has been dedicated to crafting tea loved by everyday tea drinkers from all walks of life. Our specialty lies in fukamushi, or deep-steamed tea, sourced directly from the local Kanaya region of Shizuoka prefecture. Discover green tea direct from a family-run Japanese tea producer.
Tea Rebellion
We provide tea lovers who care about fair trade and transparency with award winning farm direct teas. We empower tea farmers through long term trading partnerships and co-branding. We are a B Corp and aim to transform how tea is marketed, traded and consumed.
The Republic of Tea
Founded in 1992, The Republic of Tea sparked a Tea Revolution. We began by canvassing the most prized tea gardens of the world for their worthiest leaves. Our mission is to enrich peoples lives through premium teas and herbs, education, and innovation while emphasizing a Sip by Sip Rather Than Gulp by Gulp lifestyle.
UC Davis, Global Tea Institute
The Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science promotes evidence-based knowledge about tea, the most consumed prepared beverage in the world. Although the main focus is Camellia sinensis, GTI also considers things consumed as “tea” (e.g., wellness teas). With UC Davis’s extraordinary breadth of expertise and GTI’s holistic mission, GTI is unique in the world, and the first and only entity to promote research and teaching in agriculture, health, science, humanities, social science, and industry, and from a global perspective.
Young Mountain Tea
Young Mountain Tea specializes in directly importing single origin teas from India and Nepal.
