Noisy Crane Tea House opened March 12 in Tampa in a converted bungalow at 213 S. Howard Ave.
The space lies just behind a blue curtain inside stationerystoreThe Paper Seahorse. Noisy Crane offers traditional Chinese tea focused on deliberate service and education.
Expect to find a curated variety of green, oolong and red teas served in sharing and individual sizes. The tea drinking experience owner K.C. Cavanaugh offers is comparable to how one can enjoy wine, with a focus on terroir and age. Tea is served tableside.
The red tea varietal Ancient Red ($14 or $22), for example, is dated 2021 and from high-elevation 200- to 400-year-old trees, the menu says. It has notes of “jujube date, cedar and date syrup.”
“Tea is a plant medicine,” Cavanaugh said recently at the shop.
The traditional Chinese brewing pot known as a gaiwanin Noisy Crane’s logo indicates it is a space that serves tea with gongfu: patience, experience and intention.
Tea will not be served to-go, the tea house said in an Instagram post:“All tea is served and enjoyed in the tea house.”
Noisy Crane aims to be a “place to linger, read, journal, and connect,” the post continued.
Noisy Crane’s opening hours are 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. Thursday and Friday walk-ins are welcome; Saturday and Sunday reservations are required.