How do you take your tea? There are more than 150 kinds of loose-leaf teas and tisanes at this Bayview Village Shopping Centre favourite. Shoppers can order tea by the cup while enjoying English scones and French pastries. Owner Catherine Lashko, formerly food and beverage director at the Windsor Arms, takes tea to entirely new levels of taste. The Matcha machine is the only one of its kind in Canada—it makes fresh Matcha (green tea) lattes as well as pure Matcha. Custom-prepared blends (a shop specialty) offer intriguing fruit notes. Top custom blends include Canadian maple, a top-quality ceylon with pure Canadian maple fudge; masala chai, a blend of masala spices over a black Assam tea base; and chocolate mint, a mix of Indian black tea, dark chocolate, fudge and organic peppermint. As well, Lashko recently launched the country’s first on-line tea school at www.thetealeaf.com.