"From the outside, The Urban Tea Merchant is conservatively dressed and rather unassuming (see image to the right). But that’s where the music stops in this musical chair analogy.
Walking through the doors of The Urban Tea Merchant is, and I’m not kidding when I say this, an affable assault of the senses."
"Tea is wisdom in liquid form: this is the "really British" definition. But it is also a pleasure to share, in any latitude. Hot cups of it are sipped in carefully designed "tea rooms" in the colder Northern capitals (Stockolm in the old city, Chaikkana takes its inspiration from the colonial interiors of the XX century; in Copenhagen Sing Tehus plays upon an essential interior decoration of contemporary taste); while across the ocean is the enchanting sound of water trickling from teapot to teapot in the zen fountain of The Urban Tea Merchant in Vancouver."