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Doubly Impressed
Chic new Coffee Shops, Double Impresso, has been causing quite a stir with its awesome blend of great service, ‘coffee porn’ and, of course, some awesome blends of tea from yours truly at the Kettle Shed! Nestled conveniently on Bethnel High Street, Double Impresso have started working their impish charms and succulent snacks on an unsuspecting East London. They’re good! And that’s why we’re partnering up with them to add great tasting teas to their already enticing arsenal. So what’s the next step? Well, according to the Impresso team it’s WORLD DOMINATION. But we’re only interested in providing the tea. Honest. As more coffee shops and hotels join us and…
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Theo’s Simple Italian and Hotel Indigo
The Kettle Shed Tea company are delighted to be supplying our delicious teas to Kensington’s Hotel Indigo and its in house restaurant- Theo’s Simple Italian– from the acclaimed Chef Theo Randall. The Indigo is a unique, boutique hotel full of charm and character, offering a professional yet personable service. The perfect base from which to explore the vibrant Kensington surroundings. Guests can now wake up with an invigorating Kettleshed apple and lime green tea alongside a breakfast laid out by Hotel Indigo to give you a great start to the day. Having appeased one’s taste buds at Theo’s Simple Italian, finishing the meal with a Sleepy Head Kettle Shed…
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Palace For Life Foundation
The Kettle Shed are delighted to have supplied tea for the charity football match for the Palace For Life Foundation on Saturday 21st May at Selhurst Park. A charity which helps young South Londoners grow through sport. Over £11k was raised by the game which resulted in a 2-2 score and a penalty shootout. Former Crystal Palace players Andy Johnson, Neil Shipperly, Andy Gray and Sasa Curcic joined fans who had bid in an auction to take part. A fantastic experience which saw players dressed in full Palace kit and receive coaching from Bobby Bowry and Keith Millen throughout the afternoon. For over 25 years the foundation has been…
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The Kettle Shed visits a tea plantation!
At the end of December, a Kettle Shed dream came true. The Kettle Shed Tea Lady and Darcy Rae (who has her very own tea named after her, Darcy’s Delights!) visited a tea plantation and it was really rather magical. The Araksa Tea Plantation in Chiang Mai, Thailand is a small and beautiful plantation on a hill. It produces stunning tea leaves called, Camellia sinensis. There are two types of Camellia sinensis: sinensis for Chinese teas, and assamica for Indian Assam teas. The assamica leaves are used to make the well known Assam tea, which is a black tea named after the largest tea growing region in India. At Araksa…
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Kick start the new year and the new you with Matcha green tea!
Hands up. Who’s feeling like they over indulged this Christmas? Too much sherry and chocolates? Lots of sitting around watching films? We hear you! At The Kettle Shed, we’re certainly feeling like we ate too many mince pies but we know just the cure, Matcha Green Tea! It’s the perfect way to detox post Christmas and to give you and the new year a healthy kick start! Health Benefits But why is it so good? Well, as with any green tea, the drinker can expect to benefit from the wide range of antioxidants that come in every cup. But matcha tea is quite special when it comes to the levels of antioxidants.…
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The Kettle Shed helps Rosy Rosie ‘Give A Cup’ !
A few weeks ago we were approached by a small startup business called Rosy Rosie about helping out with some goodie bags they were doing for charity, we were really excited to help out, we had a quick read through the company’s website and their values and ideas on handmade and ethical business and we knew that we were a match made in heaven. The bags were a great success and we would like to let you know a bit more about what the company is about and how the goodie bags went down! Rosy Rosie was set up by Rowena, she set up the company a few years ago…
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Vote GREEN! (not the party MATCHA of course!)
Matcha – the revolution. Forget about the politics, vote for Matcha! The Matcha revolution is just around the corner! Gone are the days of coffee jitters! We have all been there right? It gets to mid-morning and you start to hit ‘the wall’, so you have a coffee to try and replenish and kick your energy levels up a bit, straight away you feel that amazing rush of energy that then unfortunately as The Guardian says “it sends you to the moon, jittery and anxious, with your heart skittering?”you then severely crash and burn on average 5-10 minutes after you had that coffee and then are even more drowsy than…
