Marco Polo

The Anna’s Tea from Tin Roof Teas reminds me a bit of this. I think you would like it, too. Maybe I can send a bit your way! :)

Yay for rain!

Cool! I haven’t Googled it, but I’m gathering from some of your previous comments Tin Roof is a local-ish place?

And oh, my how the moisture was needed! Trouble is, now I’m seeing disturbing patches of green in the back yard…I haven’t had to mow since early June!

“disturbing patches of green”, I feel ya there.

I have it ready to mail tomorrow! Yes, Tin Roof Teas is in Raleigh. Anna’s is raspberry yogurt black and soooo tasty. It reminds me of Marco Polo. Then I had their Strawberry Vanilla Green tea and swooooned. I put both in your envelope!

Yay! Good mail to look forward to!

Nice plug for our local tea shop – that’s great!

Between the fact that this tea is hard to get, and the fact that it sends me back to a world that no longer exists and I always wind up with tears behind my eyes – ooof- yeah – I can’t be without this tea, yet I don’t drink it very often.

This one doesn’t bring up any special memories for me but I totally understand the desire for it to be a special occasion kind of tea. It’s so lovely yet MF stuff is so hard to find…

Auggy – I’ve got a pretty good line on it most of the time. I’ve got a local Dean and Deluca. If you want, next time you run out let me know and I can run down and see if there’s any there. We can do some sort of swap if you’d like.

http://www.markethallfoods.com/categories.php?category=Coffee-and-Tea/Mariage-Fr%C3%A8res-Tea/Mariage-Fr%C3%A8res-Tea-(Tins)

Shoulda done a tinyurl, but…lazy this morning. x.x

Anyway, hope that helps. :D

liquid strawberry shortcake!?!

Yay – thanks to both wombatgirl & sophistre! takgoti was my buyer last time – I am jealous of those with local MF hook ups! :) And OMG at the lovelies at Market Hall Foods……. Do they ever have any of the more special teas (like Opium Hill)?
thewaterbird, It’s gooooooood. :)

Another great source of Mariage Freres is The Cultured Cup in Dallas, TX. www.theculturedcup.com.

So true – I had forgotten about them. They are only 50ish minutes away so looks like I need to visit them again!

I just found out that MF tea is sold at Fauberg a patisserie shop in central Vancouver….looking forward to trying this brand….

awesome! MF has a bunch of great teas! If you’re trying to decide what to pick up, feel free to poke me for suggestions if you know what they sell there.

That would be great – I like flavoured black tea the best – Marco Polo might be a good selection, if they have it….

Lilysmom, THANK YOU. I bought another tin of Chandernagor at Holt Renfrew last week, and was worried one more tin wasn’t going to be enough!

omg – need to get you to send me a sample of that sometime…

http://www.faubourg.com/Coffee-Shop

Oh, I thought you had it! I’ll start a list for you. :)

This is great, I hadn’t seen the list! I think Chandernagor or Marco Polo might be my first choice? Btw their spice loaf is wonderful…..gingerbread cakey……perfect with tea…..probably only around during the holidays tho……

What does your tea station look like?!

Show us! Show us! Nice! Give him a big smooch.

YAY!

Haha I certainly will ashmanra! As for pictures, it’s the last one in the photo album below:

https://picasaweb.google.com/117543481218540418474/MyTeaStation?authuser=0&feat=directlink

I love it so hard.

Oh, it’s so well organized and nice! I love the setup and I’m getting pretty jealous of the Breville. The wheels make it even more epic.

Jealous of your station! It looks awesome :D

That’s so organized! You must be thrilled.

You had posted this a little while back…i totally went to ikea and picked up 3 solid doors to hide my stash behind since my tea is also in an expedit bookcase. :) However mine lives in a 2×3 lol someday i’ll condense it down to 2X2

Thanks guys! @ Sil, I love the Expedit so much. I haven’t seen a 3×2 though – the one in Atlanta only has 2×2 or 4×2 options. You’ll have to show pictures! :)

Nice! It was great before, but the wheels add a lot of style in addition to making it easier to move. I think it looks really great with the added elevation!

haha oopsy i meant 2×4 apparently i’m having issues counting today :)

I really would prefer what you’ve done, but right now we don’t have the space for a little one in the house. the 2×4 is actually a room divider for us too heh.

It’s so nice!! Sil do you have a pic of yours? Now i’d kill to see how you store your stash, lol

http://instagram.com/silaena

the first tea cupboard looking picture is how it’s all stored, i just left the 3 doors open so you can see behind them. the two next pictures is 98% of all the tea in my house on the table, had to go int two shots lol my tea takes up 5 cubes.

I’ll take a better picture eventually lol

Awesome! In the pic with everything on the table, where’d you get the tiny square tins? I think they’re orange

teaopia when it was closing down. there are 16? little ones that go into a big one and because they were closing out it was like 4$

Ohhhh nice find!

yeah i hate the colour but can’t complain over the price – perfect sizes for samples from people :)

Yeah it would be nice if places sold those! I don’t want giant tins, no room for them!

Absolutely epic tea station!

whew, what a relief! thanks QG :)

We need to find a place to buy this in Toronto!

I know!!!
Apparently the distillery district has some Mariage Freres, but I’m not sure about which flavours exactly.

Do you have a Williams-Sonoma there? They carry it in the US.

yes we do! I shall check it out, thanks for the tip!

This is the cafe that sells MF in Toronto (two locations): http://www.balzacscoffee.com/. I was told they don’t order stock frequently so what they have’ll depend on when you go, but they seem pretty helpful and if you call ahead they’d be able to tell you what’s in stock. They have Marco Polo and the vanilla rooibos as well as a few others to go, so I assume those would be the options to buy.

ahhhh thx Jessie :)
Now I know where to go in the DD! Too bad it’s such a pain to get there… ah well, it’s so worth the walk!!

I was at Sherway Gardens today and checked out their Williams-Sonoma. They did indeed have this tea…for $32. I promptly put it back on the shelf XD. They also had some Harney & Sons (English Breakfast and Paris) but they were marked up considerably as well. The Blue Banana in Kensington has a bigger selection of H&S teas for better prices.

OH MY! Did you that Harney sachet tins are only 10.95 at Barnes and Noble but are $16.95 at Williams-Sonoma for the SAME TIN? I have only purchased Mariages Freres at Southern Season so I have no idea how much it costs at WS in the USA.

Yeah, that’s the general feeling I get from W-S. “Oh, hey, our stuff might look a bit nicer than the stuff from Wal-Mart or Sears, it works the same, but we’re gonna jack up the price anyway.” Designer kitchen stores make me sad…thank goodness I live five minutes away from IKEA!

Just curious, how much does it cost at Southern Season?

I am pretty sure we paid about $22 for a tin of their Vanille des Iles, which is why we switched to Harney and Sons Vanilla Black! Much cheaper, and tastes as good to me! I think I paid about the same for Marco Polo.

Yowza. Of course, I’ve paid that for tins of DT, but MF’s tins seem so small! Harney’s too, for that matter. I guess it really just depends on how much that tea is worth to you.

The MF tins are 3 1/2 oz or 100 grams, so that is a bit pricey! I think we pay about $24 for one pound of Harney Vanilla Black, so it is quite a savings! But there are one or two special teas I don’t mind paying a bit for, especially if they resteep well.

Yeah, I paid $22 for a tin of Whisky White today, but it’s so very worth it to me. Still made my heart stop at the price, though. I need to find a good Vanilla black, vanilla is my one true love.

the price we pay for tea… and yet I will never have enough. Still, $22 for whisky white! I hope they keep that one around :)

XD Have you see my cupboard lately? I so feel your pain. So far it’s still only around for Father’s Day, but hopefully it has staying power.

I think enough people like it that they will keep it. Fingers crossed! SO much better than buttered rum, IMO :)

Love your story, and I really love this tea. Mmm. I haven’t tried it with milk or sugar or anything, but your experience makes me want to try it!

Beautiful!! A tea that brings back childhood.

I can’t guarantee it will be quite so Proustian, but I hope it will be delicious :)

I was tempted to have this earlier today but I went with Rishi’s china breakfast instead. I was going to have it with some sugar n milk, but then I was like wait would it get too sweet? Now I’m going to try it next time =P

I love this log. I’m making this tea today because of it.

Interesting idea… I might have to try this one day!

You’re bad in a good way! :)

Was handed a cup of tea like this by Fr. Basil a few years ago at St.Nikolas Russian Orthodox Church ….really good and kids like it as a treat in the Winter!

I’ve never heard of putting jam in your tea, but it sounds like it would be really good!

It’s not my idea. It’s a Russian Tea custom usually with a floral smoky type of tea. A soft spicy tea could be good too in the Winter!

I like hearing about your experiments! Sounds delicious!

sounds delicious! i never in my wildest dreams thought of putting jam in my tea…what a good idea!! sour cherry no less…would love to experiment now with my teas in the same way :)

Don’t you just hate it when teas don’t behave….

I’ve had the same experience with this tea. It’s either perfect or really, really off.

It’s so disappointing! When I first had it, it was SO GOOD. I would have been very upset if I had bought a tin based on that cup!

i, thankfully didn’t buy it – my parents brought it for me. :)