This modern bakery's concise tea selection and thoughtful preparation are the perfect match for its exquisite pastries, such as delicate chiffon cakes, cream scones, and crunchy twice-baked hazelnut croissants. The shop’s afternoon tea events are on hold during the pandemic, but there’s a walkup window for takeout orders and an online croissant class.

This small Ravenna shop is the primary place in Seattle to get traditional English tea. The interior is decked out in full Victorian splendor, flaunting plenty of frills and flowers; even the shrubs surrounding the entry are neatly manicured.

This minimalist Ballard cafe is serious about tea education and simultaneously casual enough for novices. It boasts around 200 teas, with some bonus sweet treats (such as macarons) sitting in a pastry case. Currently open for takeout with curbside pickup and delivery, including some kits that feature fancy teapots for retail.

An online shop that added a retail location in Wallingford, Friday Afternoon serves a wide variety of true tea, herbal blends with a medicinal focus, and geeky mixes based on films, games, and literature, like Mrs. Bennett’s Nerve Tonic, inspired by Pride and Prejudice, and combatting frazzled nerves with chamomile and sage. Available for preorders and pickup.

This little brick store, tucked away from Pike Place Market’s bustle in Post Alley, has an old-timey British feel and some of the most complex-tasting teas in the city (often supplied to other cafes). On weekends, customers can peruse the huge selection of leaves by the ounce, but the shop encourages people to order online in advance with curbside pickup.

This historic hotel is still operational, and its cafe is a lovely place for tea, particularly Japanese green tea and an array of ginger-flavored varieties, which customers can use to make their own blends.

This International District teahouse is steeped in the culture of Taiwan. Owners Joe Hsu and Lydia Lin bring a spirit of well-being to their shop even as they continue to acquire and build knowledge of oolong and other tea varietals. This is one of the friendliest places in the city to learn about leaves, and it has an online shop as well. Delivery available through apps like GrubHub.

Burien’s gem of a teahouse is everything that Burien itself is: charming, off the beaten path, and generally underestimated. Phoenix Tea’s international selection, focusing on traditional, single-origin specimens. is truly worth traveling for, although the shop also carries non-tea infusions and blends. Open for curbside pickup with online preordering and delivery.