In March 2024, I had the opportunity to visit with Aliya Cacanindin, one of the “tea slingers” at the Perennial Tea Room in Seattle, WA (Aliya, Mikaela, Tayler, and the proprietor Dolan Honsa are all like vested co-managers at the store). Nestled in a Pike Place alleyway right behind “The World’s First Starbucks,” the Perennial Tea Room caters to locals as well as tourists, passersby, and online customers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
