Mount Pleasant’s Cultivate Tea has been in the dark for the past couple of months, but for good reason.

Co-owners Jude Wang and Lynn Liu have been busy working on their expanded digs just across the street, located at 2280 Main Street.

The 18 seat, 800-square-foot space has been transformed into a tranquil tea sanctuary (with the help of local restaurant designer Scott Cohen), complete with natural elements like a walnut bar, Italian Venetian limestone plaster wall, and sliding shoji screens (doors made of a latticed screen covered with white paper).

But just because the local tea shop and kombucha bar has a new home, doesn’t mean its focus has shifted. Cultivate Tea’s co-owners continues to ethically source rare and high-quality teas through direct trade from small farmers and foragers in China, Taiwan, and Japan.

Guests will be able to find white, yellow, green, oolong, black, and dark loose-leaf teas here, as well as small-batch organic kombucha on tap, tea-tasting flights like gong fu cha (a Chinese method of preparing tea), and kombucha-tasting flights. Cold brew and ice-brew teas are also on the menu, as well as tasty bites like Japanese onigiri (rice balls) and a dessert pop-up every Saturday.

Tea accessories like matcha whisks and hand-made wood trays are also stocked in the shop, as wel as hand-shaped ceramics from local B.C. artists and China’s Jingdezhen Prefecture.

We don’t know about you, but a rare cup of tea made with tea leaves sourced from a secluded Chinese mountain sounds like the perfect way to wind down after a long week.

Scroll through the photos below for a look inside the Vancouver tea shop's new space.