Teavana

Teavana
224 W. Hillcrest DriveThousand Oaks, CA 91360(805) 230-2552

I love this tea and this is my new tea heaven. They have several varieties of green, white, black, & fruit flavored teas that you can sniff and test out before you buy. The workers are super nice and helpful. I went in to just check it out and ended up buying like 15 types of teas. I am so addicted now and they have all this cool and hip stuff related to the tea making process such as tea pots, cups, containers, honey swizzle sticks, brown rock sugar – pretty much anything that can make your tea experience more enjoyable. It’s really Asian inspired in there with dragon motif tea pots, Japanese washi paper covered containers that you store the tea in, and lotus or cherry blossom decorated porcelain cups. The marketing behind this place is awesome. They have little booklets that describe each of their teas and how long to brew them for. There are tea sampling stations around the store where you can taste 4 different teas – 2 hot and 2 cold. They also sell tea to go. I ended up with a Peppermint Chocolate iced tea with extra rock sugar that tasted like a liquid peppermint patty. It was a tasty alternative dessert treat to a peppermint mocha latte and the best part was that it was fat free and so much lighter in calories. Check this place out if you would like to have a tea with ambiance experience.