TELEPHONE # & FAX UPDATE

In response to mad amounts of marketing calls, JagaSilk has decided to decapitate the hydra and change their phone number:

It is now

Opening the teabar from 1-7, Tues to Sat has been a great success! We have seen many familiar faces, and many new ones.

The most popular thing to do around haere is stop in at Daidoco next door for lunch (best Japanese food in the city!) and pop in to JagaSilk for tea afterward.

Samples for the Nuwara Eliya region Ceylon black tea we will be releasing have arrived. Swing by the teabar for a sneak preview while the leaves last! The harvest date says June15th, 2010. Is that not out of this world mind-boggling????? So very very very fresh.

I love fresh tea!

TEABAR HOURS

Our teabar has now been open for almost 1 year. We have decided to give it the attention it deserves, taking it from a wholesale hub open to the public on Friday and Saturday, to a more accessible timeline; it will become a full-fledged teabar open 5 days a week.

Though this week we are open only today (June 16; a Wednesday) and tomorrow from 1-7...


**** Beginning next week, June 22nd (tues), we will be open Tuesday to Saturday, 1-7

We are located at A17-633 Courtney St, right behind the Bug Zoo in beautiful Victoria, BC. Come find us inside of Nootka Court (humbly located next to the Fairmont Empress Hotel)

Our latest feature is inspired by Russian jam tea. We have blended organic house raspberry jam and blended it with a koicha maccha shot, poured over organic Avalon milk on the rocks. Damn fine!

In our effort to leave no quality independant space uncontacted, the JagaSilk is spreading!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!! THE GREEN MADNESS IS UPON US!!!!!!!!!

Credo Coffee in Edmonton AB
Infusion Bouteaque in Langley BC
Chatters Bistro in Smithers BC
Fresh Cafe in Victoria BC
Back at Market on Yates in Victoria BC
Loose tea at the Markets and Lifestyle Markets
La Pura Vida in Mexico

And this is just a snippet!

Come in to the teabar and come check out the tea academy! Go to the schedule under "Tea Academy" for an update of the next sessions. Drop us a line if you would like to register!

GRAND OPENING

JagaSilk Teabar & Studio Yu

August 14th, 10am - 6pm

* 10% off everything
* Live music!
* Food!
* Bi-hourly premium loose tea tastings!

Come out for a day of tea and music, good cheer and the celebration of 2 new shops:

JagaSilk Teabar features Maccha Green Tea Menu, Premium Loose Tea, Tea Seminars, Retail Store

Last Thursday, 9 competitors participated in our 2nd Annual Maccha Latte Art Competition.

The winners:

1. Midori Higa of Buon Amici's Coffee
2. Mark Engels of Bubby Rose's Bakery
3. Tiffany Malley of 2% Jazz Espresso

Peggy and her crew down at Beans & Greens Coffeeshop in Esquimalt have joined the maccha madness. They are serving a full maccha menu, complete with Maccha Lattes, Caps, Macchiatos, Americanos, and Traditional Maccha!

They have a nice and stylin Synesso machine and big smiles. Kid friendly and super cool, stop in and order up a maccha. Sit down and enjoy their delicious muffins, sandwiches, and everything else they quietly do magnificently well.

Buon Amici's Coffee has made the switch to our Maccha Nirvana grade for everything. Their menu is hardcore, with traditional maccha caps, beautiful Nirvana lattes and wicked traditional pure maccha that are so full and smooth it is intense. Stop by and visit this excellently forward thinking coffee house for a Nirvana Maccha beverage. The cap is highly recmmended. Ask for it in the 6oz tulip cup!

So we were on! Hope everyone enjoyed it! Just click on the link posted on the post befor this and look for Wed, Feb 4th, 2009. We are on after the section on logging. Yegads.

Hey everyone. Flip on your TVs if you have one at 6:30pm on Wed, Feb 5th! We're going to be on Chek TV's Island 30!
Apparently, if you miss it, you can see it on their webpage after it airs. I will do my best to link to it after it is up!
http://www.chtv.com/ch/cheknews/features/Island%2030/index.html

Here is a link to a really cool news story on the page of one of our customer's, Volta Coffee, Tea and Chocolate.
Check it out: http://www.voltacoffee.com/?q=node/78

We just received word that Masaki Kubo's masterpeices are on display at the Louvre in Paris, France. What an honour. His chasen are absolutely magnificent and this display is a wonderful testamount to his skill and aesthetic. Congratulations Mr. Kubo!

The November Session (14!) of the Fellowship of the Maccha, held at Khona, went wonderfully! Every person there seemed super keen on learning about "How to Destroy Your Tea". They listened to Miyu and I talk about the fragility and wine-like qualities of tea.

The big 5: moisture, heat, oxygen, strong odours, and light. They destroy your tea!

Everyone is welcome to the next Fellowship of the Maccha, session 15, where we will bake maccha cookies and make maccha honey lemon americanos. Yum.

So much good food, good drink, and so many happy people at the Broadmead Bakery's first (soon to be annual) Christmas Preview. They featured all their new seasonal baked goods at an after hours party, complete with beautiful jazz music and me and Miyu serving up some maccha! The good boys of Oughtred were also out pulling shots for the party and it was a whirlwind of a night. We went home with a care package of sweets to absolutely die for and highly recommend going to the Broadmead Bakery the next time you are in Broadmead Village.

The good people at 2% Jazz, minus Sean the sellout (yeah, Sean, I am calling you a sellout!) got together with us here at JagaSilk and held an advanced level training session. We showed them the video of Masaki Kubo handcutting a chasen that we took in Nara last August, and the tour of the stone grinding facility in Uji. They all tweaked their technique, tasted Dragonfly, got creative with Crane (hah!) and managed to get though the session without hurting anyone seriously. There was some green teeth and some positively wicked microfoam.

We are awesomely excited to have Khona offering traditional maccha using any grade of JagaSilk you like. They are serving Organic Happy Grade, Organic Butterfly Grade, Organic Dragonfly Grade, Green Grade, Nirvana Grade, and Crane Flies Above the Clouds.

So cool!!!!!

It is displayed right next to the cash register on a salvaged Garry Oak log display crafted by local Victoria wood artisan, Jess Williams. If you order Crane, make sure it is made by one of the 5 Macchartists at Khona!

We just got back from a wonderful training session with the good people of the Broadmead Bakery in Broadmead Village. The crew and owners are always super nice and today was no exception! We went through the cuppings and knowledge and preparation, even briefly touching on artisan milk. They all did great. If you are in the area, stop in and ask for an organic Maccha Cappuccino! Delicious and smooth! 

We will be seeing them again for their Christmas Preview Open House in November on the 12th.

Okay. So this grade is absolutely gorgeous. Totally drinking up our profits over here at JagaSilk. The tasting notes on this beautiful creation from the Harima family:

TASTING NOTES
Flavour: almond, cane sugar
Body: full, round
Finish: flowery sweet

Introducing Cracked Pottery by Ota! Ota is local to Victoria, yet Japanese. His glocal artistry has enabled gorgeous chawan to be created. His cracked style is unique to him yet based on a traditional Japanese style that allows the flavours of the tea to gradually soak into the pottery and flavour your tea more and more deeply with time. A must for the maccha connoisseur, and a perfect complement to the one hundred year ld signature smoked bamboo chasen.

There are two types:

After a weekend of design flurry in Vancouver with our friends at www.easy-shoponline.net, JagaSilk.com is up! We have redesigned it so that we can actually update it! YES! (This may sound weird, but damn if isn't hard to get a good updatable website going)

There will be a much more active NEWS section, a wicked WHERE AVAILABLE section, and eventually a real store!

Peace!

PS If you want your own website like this one, please contact info@easy-shoponline.net