Afternoon Tea in Seattle: The City, Spokane, and Down I-5 to Portland
A Fairmont tradition since 1924, Ballard's oolong shops, a tea house in a landmark hotel — and the Northwest's best pours three hours south.
Tea Rooms.org Editors · September 1, 2026
Seattle is a leaf city with a formal streak. The Fairmont Olympic has poured afternoon tea since 1924, but the everyday tea culture lives in Ballard and the Chinatown-International District, where Taiwanese oolong shops and a landmark hotel tea house set the tone. Spokane holds its own across the mountains, and Portland — three hours down I-5 — has the deepest teahouse bench in the Northwest.
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The Afternoon Tea Rooms
Afternoon tea in the Olympic Bar of the Fairmont Olympic is a hotel tradition since 1924 — signature scones from a generations-old recipe, finger sandwiches, and seasonal sweets at $79 per adult, with a Little Kings and Queens menu for children, weekends only. Queen Mary Tea Room is the city's long-running independent — brunch, lunch, and formal afternoon tea Wednesday through Sunday, with tea available at any seating. North in Marysville, Attic Secrets Tearoom serves a full 90-minute afternoon tea — the Grand Lady at $35, a gluten-free Primrose at $33, the Peaceful at $26 — with last seating at 2:30 PM.
Afternoon Tea at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel
$$$$Downtown · Seattle
Weekend afternoon tea in the Olympic Bar of the Fairmont Olympic, a tradition at the hotel since 1924. The menu features signature scones from a recipe passed down through generations, finger sandwiches, and seasonal sweets, at $79 per adult with a Little Kings and Queens menu for children. Hours shown are tea service times.
Queen Mary Tea Room
Seattle
Long-running Seattle tea room serving brunch, lunch, and formal afternoon tea Wednesday through Sunday, with afternoon tea available at any seating. Reservations are taken via OpenTable for parties up to five; larger parties book by phone. Last seating is 3:30 PM on weekdays and 4:30 PM on weekends.
Attic Secrets Tearoom
Marysville
Traditional tearoom in Marysville serving a full 90-minute afternoon tea experience, with last seating at 2:30 PM. Reservations are highly recommended by phone or email, and walk-ins are welcomed subject to capacity.
The Leaf: Ballard to the International District
The Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House sits on the street level of a National Historic Landmark in Seattle's former Japantown, serving about 40 teas — sencha, hojicha, lavender earl grey, ruby oolong — in a room that displays suitcases left by Japanese American families sent to incarceration camps during the Second World War. Nearby, Seattle Best Tea is a family-run shop built on high-mountain Taiwanese oolongs — Tie Guan Yin, Dong Ding — and an informal gathering place by its own description. In Ballard, Floating Leaves Tea specializes in Taiwanese oolongs across light, roasted, vintage, and red styles and runs weekend classes at its Woodland Park studio, while Miro Tea on Ballard Avenue pours single-estate teas, matcha, and $6 tea lattes until 8:00 PM daily. B. Fuller's Mortar & Pestle in Fremont, established in 2008, is the herbal apothecary of the set.
Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House
Chinatown-International District · Seattle
Tea house on the street level of the Panama Hotel, a National Historic Landmark in Seattle's former Japantown, serving patrons since 2001. Offers a selection of about 40 teas including sencha, hojicha, lavender earl grey, and ruby oolong. The room displays historical artifacts including suitcases left by Japanese American families sent to incarceration camps during WWII.
Seattle Best Tea
Chinatown-International District · Seattle
Family-run tea shop in the Chinatown-International District specializing in high-mountain Taiwanese oolongs sourced from high-altitude tea estates. The shop describes itself as an informal tea gathering place rather than a formal tea house, and carries black, green, jasmine, white, and pu-erh varieties.
Floating Leaves Tea
Ballard · Seattle
Ballard tea shop focused on Taiwanese teas, particularly oolongs in light, roasted, vintage, and red styles, alongside black, puer, green, and white teas. The shop runs weekend tea classes at its separate tea studio in Woodland Park.
Miro Tea
Ballard · Seattle
Ballard tea cafe serving and retailing a large selection of loose leaf teas, botanicals, and blends across black, green, oolong, white, herbal, rooibos, and yerba mate varieties. The shop emphasizes single-estate premium teas with a particular focus on matcha offerings, plus artisanal teaware.
B. Fuller's Mortar & Pestle
Fremont · Seattle
Herbal apothecary and tea room in Fremont, established in 2008, specializing in small-batch teas and herbal tisane blends. Customers can visit the physical location to sample teas and shop the house line of herbal infusion blends.
East to Spokane
Revival Tea Company blends more than 50 teas in a former downtown speakeasy: tea flights in the dining room, a retail shop, and tea-based mocktails at the speakeasy bar with a daily mocktail happy hour from 3:00 to 6:00 PM, open every day. Brambleberry Cottage & Tea Shoppe is the traditional room — afternoon tea by appointment on limited days, booked online.
Revival Tea Company
Downtown · Spokane
Downtown Spokane tea house and headquarters set in a former speakeasy, blending more than 50 teas in house. Visitors can order tea flights in the dining room, browse the retail shop, or try tea-based mocktails at the speakeasy tea bar, with a daily mocktail happy hour from 3 to 6 PM.
Brambleberry Cottage & Tea Shoppe
Spokane
Cottage-style tea shoppe in Spokane serving afternoon tea by appointment, with bookings requested through its online reservation system. Tea service runs limited days, and the shop also ships its teas and offers appointment-only shopping during seasonal closures.
Down I-5: Portland
Portland is worth the drive on its own. The Tao of Tea's Belmont Teahouse is one of the city's longest-running dedicated teahouses — traditional teaware service for one from $6 to $10, an all-vegetarian kitchen, and the adjoining Leaf Room open daily. Yun Shui Teahouse, in the Tower of Cosmic Reflections inside Lan Su Chinese Garden, serves exclusively Chinese and Taiwanese teas — gong fu cha service at $14 to $18 — and garden admission is required. Smith Teamaker's headquarters tasting room pours signature flights at $13 and seasonal at $17. Portal Tea on NW 23rd — formerly Tea Chai Te — keeps loose leaf and chai going until 9:00 PM nightly. Behind the Museum Cafe, tucked behind the Portland Art Museum, serves matcha with Japanese sweets in Ryurei tea-ceremony style.
The Tao of Tea — Belmont Teahouse
Belmont / Sunnyside · Portland
Portland tea importer's flagship teahouse on SE Belmont Street, open Wednesday through Sunday, with the adjoining Leaf Room retail store open daily until 7 PM. The company sources and serves a broad range of loose leaf teas and operates as one of Portland's longest-running dedicated teahouses.
Yun Shui Teahouse at Lan Su Chinese Garden
Old Town Chinatown · Portland
Teahouse in the Tower of Cosmic Reflections inside Lan Su Chinese Garden, serving exclusively Chinese and Taiwanese teas alongside traditional Chinese comfort foods and pastries. Programming includes seasonal guided tea tastings, a Tour + Pour garden-tour-plus-tasting experience, and tea workshops. Garden admission is required; hours shown are garden hours with last entry at 5:00 PM.
Smith Teamaker Tasting Room
Central Eastside · Portland
Steven Smith Teamaker's headquarters tasting room on SE Washington Street, where the company blends and dispatches small batches of teas and herbal infusions with cafe service on site. A second Portland tasting room on NW 23rd Avenue serves handcrafted teas, lattes, and tea flights alongside pastries.
Portal Tea — NW 23rd Avenue
Northwest District · Portland
Tea house on Portland's NW 23rd Avenue, formerly known as Tea Chai Te, serving loose leaf teas and chai. The company also operates a Sellwood location in a historic 1920 Seattle Pacific Railroad caboose and a Eugene location opened in 2021.
Behind the Museum Cafe
Downtown / Cultural District · Portland
Small Japanese tea cafe tucked behind the Portland Art Museum, specializing in Japanese tea and foods served among Japanese antiques, art, and crafts. Matcha is served with Japanese sweets in traditional Ryurei tea-ceremony style, with indoor and outdoor seating daily.
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