Petite, clean interior manned by an older couple who seem every bit the new business owners: very…read moreknowledgeable but obviously well-studied, meaning that it seems tea was not always in their lives. Like other tea shops in town, they offer a pot of sale tea on the warmer for anyone who enters. There are also tea accessories on the shelves.
I bought a half-kilo of leaves, one quarter of Moroccan mint green tea and a quarter of chai. I also picked up one of those little metal tea-balls, whatever they're called, the ones you stuff with leaves and then steep in the mug. Both teas were of very good quality, and continue to keep well in the cupboard. The little steel ball thing though, of German make, has loosened a bit over the course of a couple months and now leaf-dust and particles escape through the seam between the two halves. It was cheap enough, so I guess the old "you get what you pay for" has bit me again.
This shop is another example of Malasaña-type shops opening in Lavapies. What was a relatively dangerous and seedy neighborhood is changing, and places like this one shall be the bellwethers of the gentrified Lavapies to come.
