A small, well-loved teahouse on a quiet corner of the Mission, pouring single-origin leaves from Yunnan, Wuyi, Uji and the high gardens of Darjeeling. Brewed by hand. Steeped without rush.
Cheryl opened the door of a narrow storefront on Linden Alley in the autumn of 2011 with two cast-iron kettles, a borrowed scale, and a notebook of leaves she'd carried back from a year of small farms in Fujian. The room held nine chairs. It still does.
Today the teahouse keeps roughly forty-two leaves on the menu — some arriving by post each spring from gardens we have visited in person, others blended in the back room from herbs grown by friends in Sonoma. We weigh each pot. We pour the first steep at the table. Refills are part of the price; a second cup is, after all, the point.
We are open six days a week, with a long Sunday brunch of toast, honey, and whatever is good at the market. There is no Wi-Fi. We will, however, lend you a book.
| Monday quiet day | closed |
| Tuesday steeps & sandwiches | 8:00 — 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 8:00 — 18:00 |
| Thursday gongfu evenings | 8:00 — 21:00 |
| Friday | 8:00 — 21:00 |
| Saturday full kitchen | 9:00 — 19:00 |
| Sunday the long brunch | 9:00 — 16:00 |