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| - I keep finding myself writing five-star reviews. I'm usually a cranky old codger but I've had some really good luck lately.
I'm not the first person to rave about DavidsTea. There are plenty of 4- and 5-stars about the Queen W. location but I felt it essential to put a pushpin in the map for these guys at Yonge and Eglinton. From here on in, I'm basically rewording what others have said about other locations...
Two things really impressed me about DavidsTea:
Awesome Staff (they deserve the rant I'm about to embark on):
I walked in with two friends and ten seconds later there were three shots of tea in front of us for tasting (this is standard practice apparently). What I appreciated most about the staff was their passion. They weren't so much willing to help me find the perfect teas as they were dying to put product in front of me and share their wealth of tea knowledge. Even better, they were neither cooler-than-you knowledgeable like the oh-so-cliche record store music geek nor my-favourite-author-(this-week)-should-be-your-favourite-author evangelists like the over-caffeinated fiction-shelvers at the big box book brokers. I'm not really a "tea guy" but it didn't matter. The staff made my shopping experience fun and completely unintimidating by knowing their stuff and showing an eagerness to help. Between two staff running around on my behalf I must have sniffed about 20 teas before settling on three (and I went in because my friends wanted tea, not me).
Awesome Product:
DavidsTea has more tea than I even knew existed, I was introduced to mate (ma-tay), which is non-caffeinated but has a similar stimulant that is, at present, driving me to type at twice my normal speed (the flavour I got is called Jumpy Monkey, so I shouldn't be surprised). There are more flavours of more leaves than are worth listing (just go to http://www.davidstea.com/ if you want to know). I settled on the tea of the day (Secret Weapon, a white tea with licorice and soji berries) ad well as Organic Raspberry Nectar and Turning Leaf (a creamy-smelling rooibos). I splurged for the tins ($2.50 each, but they give an air-tight seal and keep your tea good for up to two years). I'll now save 50 cents whenever I drop by for a refill. The other option is a bag, which is free. Either way, each tea I bought came with a label that described its flavours and ingredients. Very handy.
Not much of a place for sitting; they have a couple seats at the front of the store. Still, I didn't feel like this was much of a loss (although it did hold them back from five-and-a-half stars).
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