Blue Monkey Tea Pittsburgh — Restaurant in Pittsburgh

Best tea shop I've been in, ever. Nicest store workers. They are very knowledgeable about tea and about every single product in the store. If you're a novice they can explain things to you, and if you're pretty knowledgeable about tea like I am, they are happy to talk tea with you. The purple tea I bought was fantastic! Great selection and also great accessories. They do have some coffee too. I will definitely be back sometime soon! Thank you very much.

Update: Went back yesterday and had another fantastic experience. The selection is second to none. Very satisfied with my chamomile tea. It is fresh and fragrant. Never had any chamomile from grocery stores that has tasted this good! The English breakfast is awesome as well as the Ceylon.

Another update: Fantastic selection of high-grade teas. I got some jasmine green tea pearls, black tea pearls, gunpowder green tea, and more purple tomoi tea. Absolutely love this place. I could probably spend $100 here just by getting 1 oz. sample-sized packages of...

We recently found out about this place through the I Made It Market in Squirrel Hill, where we picked up a small batch of Dragon's Breath, Game of Thrones flavored tea. I hadn't tried any "smokey" flavored tea before, and apparently I've been missing out! Even though it's been tremendously hot outside, I haven't been able to stop making a batch of this Dragon's Breath every day.

Just went back today to pick up some Dornish Wine flavored tea, from their very large collection of Game of Thrones branded teas. Smells absolutely delicious!

All the staff there were all very friendly, they all went out of their way to help us, and all the teas were...

Really nice little shop. Prices are fair and selection is good. Decent selection of Chinese teas for gong fu but definitely caters more to flavored and herbal tea drinkers. The woman who runs the shop is very kind and has even replaced a broken gaiwan lid for me at no charge. At least 2 times I've gone I've been given samples to try out and that's a very nice gesture. One complaint is that parking is difficult on the street, but that is no fault to the shop.

Highly reccomend the jasmine dragon pearls, white silver needle jasmine, monkey picked golden hunnan, golden monkey, milk oolong, and...