The Teavana store in Pacific Place has undergone a major renovation. It is now the first of its kind: A Teavana store inside a mall with a full tea bar for handcrafted tea beverages. (Starbucks wholly owns and operates Teavana. You can pay with your Starbucks card at Teavana and earn My Starbucks Rewards stars at Teavana stores.)
One of my own favorite iced tea beverages available at Teavana is the Raspberry Limeade herbal infusion, so that’s what I got when I stopped by. This iced tea is a blend of the Teavana Raspberry Balsamico Herbal infusion and the Limeade herbal tea. You can see that my drink snuck into a couple of photos. 😉
Even the outside of the newly-remodeled Pacific Place Teavana looks fabulous and striking:
This Teavana location is at 600 Pine Street, at 6th and Pine, in downtown Seattle.
In terms of warmed food items, you can get a nice scone that comes with either raspberry jam and mascarpone, or marscarpone and salted caramel. I should have included a pic of the scone here! It’s delicious. I’ve had it many, many times at the University Village Teavana location. For those of you who are familiar with the mall-based Teavana locations, this particular store design featured at 600 Pine Street is new and unusual, and not what you’d typically see at a mall Teavana location.
And all of the partners at the Pacific Place Teavana are super friendly! They’ll be happy to help you pick out a loose leaf tea!
I hope you get a chance to drop by. I always enjoy getting a tea from the tea bar while visiting Teavana, so I like this enhancement to have a very prominent and full tea bar. I drink a lot of iced tea at home, and my own personal Teavana favorites include Precious White Peach, Dragonfruit Devotion (which seems to blend well with a huge variety of Teavana teas), Blueberry Bliss, Pineapple Kona Pop (which is wonderful when blended with Blueberry Bliss) and Rooibos Tropica.
Enjoy a few more photos from this Teavana store! Would you order an iced or a hot tea while visiting a Teavana store in a mall? Do you have a favorite Teavana tea?
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Melody as a tea lover I would welcome this new store. However, so far the Teavana stores I have been to I find the partners not too friendly and the sales pitch a bit too forceful. Is SB planning on changing all the stores to this new format? And what are the price points for the tea? Has that changed? No tables?
@purple1 – I agree that I find Teavana partners a little more assertive than Starbucks partners, but not so much that it’s troubling to me. Since I pay with a Starbucks card, sometimes I don’t even stop to look at the price. I’m pretty sure that the prices for the drinks here are the same as the prices for the drinks at University Village (I think?) – 16 ounce standard herbal infusion (Raspberry Limeade for example) is $2.95. A lot of the teas are $2.95 for a 16 ounce size but a few cost more, such as the Golden Monkey tea and Monkey Picked Oolong. A scone was $3.45, I think. Good questions.
This looks really beautiful! I wish I could enjoy some perks like this near the east coast 🙂
Do you guys know if the Starbucks refill policy is the same for Teavana stores?
@Lynda – That is a good question. As I recall, the Starbucks website seems to include Teavana in the same refill policy as the Starbucks refill policy –
http://customerservice.starbucks.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1882
^ I think that’s a little odd that it says “while in Starbucks or Teavana” as if the refill policy is the same for both stores (unless I misunderstand it).
My own experience at University Village that a refill is always $1.00. So if I got a Raspberry Limeade, refill on same drink is $1 at the UV Teavana store.
On quick glance, the entrance looks like a cross between the Apple Store and Brookstone. I don’t like tea so much (other than my Passion Tea Lemonade) but Teavana was a must-stop place for the husband last year. He loves tea and I’m sure this will be a top priority when we come visit next May!
Amazingly, I have not been yet! I hope it stands up to the Chicago tea bar. 😉
The new Teavana teas tatse terrible. I tried the Kona Pop, the Passion Tango, and the Jade Citrus. All of them have this strange medicinal taste. Kona Pop tastes like orange cough syrup, the Passion Tango tastes like a medicated grape cough drop, and the Jade Citrus tastes like a menthol Halls. I could not add milk to the blended teas, the artificial ingredients causes the fat and protein in milk to separate, giving the milk a nasty curdled appearance and texture. It looked like someone spat up in my tea. Such a turn-off. Milk and tea are like peanut butter and jelly to someone with an English father and Japanese mother; two cultures where milk is commonly added to tea, I might, and other cultures I’m sure. What were they thinking adding these ingredients? I cannot enjoy my tea the way I like it – with milk.