We found the quiet shop you’ve been looking for
And it was right downtown the whole time. It’s been there for about a year now. Ku Cha House of Tea is on 13th between Pearl and Spruce and get this — IT DOESN’T HAVE WIRELESS!!! Ok, some might consider this sacrilegious in Boulder, but I know many of you are going to consider it a godsend antidote to the laptop libraries sprouting up all over town in otherwise fine shops such as Folsom St., The Cup and Saxy’s.
Ku Cha is a combo retail tea shop — selling around a hundred different loose-leaf teas and steepware — and a ‘traditional’ tea house with a sublimely relaxing atmosphere. No laptops in sight, just a soothing lounge where you can write in your little notebook, read the newspaper, or just stare at the ceiling without being bombarded by the obnoxiously loud noise music of the Goat. The quiet, laptop-free atmosphere also means the Ku Cha is generally empty. Good for people seeking refuge, bad for the shop. Helpfully they are doing well enough to stay in business because Boulder certainly needs some quiet spots, especially since the demise of Tea Spot.
Bob said,
July 24, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Ku Cha is just the old Leaf Tea. Good tea but pretty expensive.
Walker said,
July 26, 2009 at 9:37 am
It might be expensive but you get high quality products as well. I’ve always thought that While Pekoe et al. were sip houses Ku Cha is a purveyor of tea culture, in which laptops are conspicuously absent. They just started having a traditional Chinese harpist come for select times as well.
Bob said,
August 24, 2009 at 8:28 am
Good point. They are all about tea but what gives with the price of a pot of tea there? I’m not especially fond of paying twice what the Trident charges for a pot. Tea doesn’t have to be a hoity-toity affair. True, tea ceremonies are but that’s different.
They seem to focus on the “premium” tea world. Their basic Sencha is $5.00 and ounce! Sencha is one of the standards in the tea world and not offering a basic AND affordable one is a sign of where the tea company is looking. They are simply in the business of selling loose tea for lots of money. The “cafe” side of their business is an afterthought.