BERKELEY, CA
Teance's vision and commitment to tea education, and to providing seasonal, locally sourced teas from China, Taiwan and Japan make for a spectacular sensory and intellectual experience of single-estate, artisanal teas.
Teance provides clearly defined, yet informal educational tea events. You can join their Friday night tea classes and special tea harvest parties, sample flights of connoisseur quality teas, or simply enjoy an afternoon bantering about oolongs or pu-erhs with other tea lovers.
Owner Winnie Yu and her friends created the kind of tea room they longed for, where one can enjoy classical Chinese tea culture in a contemporary setting. The tea room itself is a work of art, with its polished cement tea bar, which is embedded with semi-precious stones, shards of teacups, and ancient fossils.