Mem Tea Imports - Cambridge

After having Mem Tea at a few local cafés, I had to stop in, and what a large and varied selection! Tiny packets up to large bags of the loose tea varieties. As you’d expect the friendly associate had great recommendations and advice. Of my selections I especially love the Blue Flower Earl Grey.

We have such a great experience here at Mem Tea Imports. Customer service here is also amazing, they recommend and teach us a lot about the tea and processes.

I guess I should disclose the fact that I get my tea imported, so I am a lot harsher when reviewing teas I get locally. However, importing myself takes a lot more time and money. That being said, MEM tea is a fantastic shop.They carry a huge variety of teas, and I hear they supply the local Asian restaurants, so that's pretty cool. They are a little pricey if you're used to supermarket tea, but it's a huge step up in quality and taste, and completely worth it if you want to get into higher quality teas. They brew samples so you can even try some teas out as you shop.The staff is wonderful. They're friendly and always happy to answer questions, or find out answers for you if they don't know it off the top of their heads. I know they hosted events pre-pandemic. I hope they bring those back because the staff seem to be knowledgeable and I'd love to see more people get the chance to learn to love tea.For me, where they really shine is their limited selection of teaware. It's small but it's more than enough for anyone looking to get into various brewing methods. It's especially impressive when there is no other store in the area (or most areas) that carry any kind of specialty teaware. Their prices are really fair too.A 4/5 for selection, 4/5 for quality, 5/5 for value, 5/5 for access/convenience. Taste is 3/5 compared to my imported teas, but shoots up to 4/5 compared to supermarket teas. Overall, still a 5/5 because they are the best option in the entire Boston area.I would definitely recommend trying them out, especially if you're just starting to dip into loose teas or don't have the patience or means to get teas imported from the source overseas.

Amazing shop with a huge variety of teas. They seem to specialize in black teas. A small variety of teabags, and a much wider one of loose leaf in several sizes. i love that they offer sample sizes as well. Also have a variety of tea supplies, and even has tea tastings on some days. Staff was super friendly and helpful, and they offer sample drinks of some of their teas. An amazing experience!

Excellent store for tea snobs like me. Loose leaf tea with knowledgeable sales people. Best part is that the generous sample size bags are 10g, which is enough to make 3 cups. You can either 1) share a tasting with someone else and/or 2) take two servings to decide that you want to come back and take the plunge for a much larger bag. Thanks for being there!