San Francisco hosts 3rd International Tea Festival
The 3rd Annual San Francisco International Tea Festival was held at the Ferry Building on Sunday in a bid to raise consumer awareness about specialty tea on the West Coast. The event featured a variety of lectures on tea's past and present, as well as several tea tastings organized by companies such as Harney & Sons and The Republic of Tea. The festival reportedly attracted 16 specialty tea suppliers and about 1,000 tea lovers - both amateur and connoisseur.