Most people associate vodka shots and bottle service with Vegas, not tea.
However, as Sin City grows, so does its appetite for tea.
Sheffield Spice and Tea Co is Vegas’s newest tea hotspot, and demand is through the roof:
“We expected tea to be about 25 percent of our sales,” Richard Sheffield said. “But when we were running out of teas the first day that we opened and had to start ordering the second day, we knew that we underestimated the demand.”
Within three weeks they more than doubled their stock of teas to 90 varieties and now have about 120 — from smoky Lapsang souchong black tea to a silky milk oolong.
In fact, tea clubs are even forming, with the Las Vegas Ladies Tea Society leading the charge.
In recent years, Vegas has been host to the World Tea Expo, which brings teamakers and tealovers alike across the world to Vegas.