Inside the 150-Item Tea List at Ballard’s Miro Tea | Eater Seattle

After studying the culture, history and science of tea, I opened Miro Tea in Ballard in 2007 as a more grown-up version of the bubble tea business; I take pride in tea as a product that isn’t harmful and make an effort to source teas ethically, often buying directly from farmers who also process their tea and traveling regularly to Taiwan and China to develop relationships with producers and merchants. My tea list contains around 150 teas and changes each year (about 40 percent are different annually); all are available to drink at the shop alongside an assortment of pastries and wagashi made by Phinney Ridge’s Tokara, and I also sell tea by the ounce for people who want to brew at home. Miro Tea is located at 5405 Ballard Avenue NW, Seattle, and is open every day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. - Jade Yamazaki Stewart