About Us
We Are Tea is a London based, independent, multi-award winning tea business attempting to do things a little differently. Being independent, we are in a position to source our teas according to quality and not our parent company's policy. Our attention to detail has won We Are Tea friends in high places and we are stocked in some of the most prestigious retailers in the world including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Dean & Deluca.
We Are Tea was set up with a little (a lot) of help from friends and family, a smile from Lady Luck and some good old-fashioned elbow grease.
The idea for We Are Tea came one cold day in Hungary when we (Spence and Suzanne) stumbled upon a tea shop in Budapest and were amazed by the extensive menu of wonderful teas and were immediately determined to bring a similar concept to London.
Our aim was to make the often complex and daunting world of speciality tea more open and accessible and above all else, we wanted to celebrate the British love affair with tea.
We launched our teashop near St. Paul's Cathedral in the heart of London in 2007 and started selling our teas online via our website in October 2008.
We are proud of what we have achieved and we hope that you are as pleased with the result as we are.
Tea and the environment.
Whenever possible we have used biodegradable packaging, and as the technology in this area progresses we plan to become fully biodegradable. We source all of our food ingredients with integrity and only work with tea suppliers with a similar ethos to us. We work closely with the Ethical Tea Partnership to improve the lives of tea workers and their environment (www.ethicalteapartnership.org/).
Our coffee is Rainforest Alliance and our hot chocolate is Fairtrade, as is our sugar. We appreciate that we still have a long way to go but we are heading in the right direction.
Our approach
At We Are Tea, we know that what we put in directly affects what you get out. So, we source only the finest, loose-leaf teas on the planet and treat them with the respect they deserve.
We are affiliated with:
UK Tea Council (www.tea.co.uk)
Guild of Fine Food (/www.finefoodworld.co.uk/)
Food Lovers Britain (www.foodloversbritain.com/)