470090 Sun Dec 16 17:49:37 -0800 2007 9 14 Washington DC & Baltimore Area 0 3213720 Looking for a good loose leaf tea place in NOVA. Been getting the bag stuff at TJ and whole food. Not that great. More chinese and english teas. Less fan of indian. Sun Dec 16 17:49:37 -0800 2007 10639 Soup 1 3214039 Wegman's in Sterling has a pretty big tea selection. And they display tins that looks like they have loose tea. Might be worth checking it out. Also any Chinese grocery store should have some loose tea selection. GW in Marrifield, Kim Sum in Annendale, or maybe even Grand Marts. Sun Dec 16 19:54:01 -0800 2007 3213720 70689 meimei 1 3214823 I had a thread on this maybe a year ago. Wegman's has a pretty good selection and they have somethings at cheaper prices than other places like your basic jasmine pearl green tea, and etc. It is loose leaf and you can scoop as much or as little as you like. Teavana in Tyson's has excellent tea. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/438428 The place mentioned in old town isn't bad. If you can get to the Ten Ren it is very good. Mon Dec 17 07:40:38 -0800 2007 3213720 92426 ktmoomau 1 3214968 Russian Gourmet has a good selection of loose teas, although mostly Russian and Chinese. http://www.russiangourmet.com/ Swing's Coffee downtown has a better selection of loose teas. For me, it's worth the trip. http://www.swingscoffee.com Mon Dec 17 08:25:39 -0800 2007 3213720 12359 monkeyrotica 1 3215946 I get my loose leaf tea from Super H Market, which offers a wide choice of Japanese and Chinese brands of loose-leaf tea -- all sold in in prepackaged plastic, rather than in bulk. My favorite tea is the genmai-cha (brown rice tea) from Maeda-en, a Japanese company. Mon Dec 17 12:56:58 -0800 2007 3213720 133428 ballston01 1 3216826 I just asked the same thing in another thread; based on the responses there, I went to Old Town Coffee Tea & Spice, and was very happy: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/469757#3216809 Mon Dec 17 17:39:39 -0800 2007 3213720 18943 sweth 1 3218236 A friend of mine loves the loose tea at Greenberry's which has a few locations in the NOVA area: http://www.greenberrys.com/ Tue Dec 18 08:37:17 -0800 2007 3213720 139166 tracy_dc 1 3223408 Not in nova, but Ching Ching Cha in Georgetown has a great selection of loose leaf tea. Teaism's shop in penn quarter does as well. Or you can buy online and stock up, "the tao of tea," Plymouth tea, or Hou De are good places to start. Wed Dec 19 16:04:34 -0800 2007 3213720 70784 darla1977 1 3255148 Teavana opened recently at the fair oaks mall and they have a store at Tysons 1. Huge selection of loose leaf tea. I really enjoy the green apricot tea. Wed Jan 02 17:26:22 -0800 2008 3213720 138676 jackchowman 1 3258732 I second Teavana (www.teavana.com). The selection is incredible--it can be hard to choose. The one at Tyson's used to be really busy and chaotic but since they've opened the one in Fair Oaks, the folks at Fair Oaks said that once they opened, the Tyson's one saw a drop of 30% in business. So now it's easier and faster to get in and out of the Tyson's one. Thu Jan 03 17:01:37 -0800 2008 3213720 14984 MizYellowRose