About Portal Tea Company
From our beginnings as a class project to the unexpected inclusion in FX’s “Portlandia”, one thing has remained constant — our drive to share the joy of tea with our community.
Tea Chai Té began as a tandem effort between co-owners and husband-and-wife duo Dominic and Angela Valdes. Together through college, the pair pursued the corporate lifestyle for which they'd planned; the issue, though, arose quite quickly — they weren't happy.
When we first kicked off this journey, we had one goal.
We just wanted to make great tea!
While that mission hasn't changed, it's evolved thanks to the people that have given us their time and attention over the years. We've watched teens mature into adults in our shops, seen romances bloom, and anxiously waited to see the next masterwork to come from our most understated guests — paintings, poetry, and more, each created in our own slice of paradise.
Perhaps most importantly, the people that have supported us haven't always done so through direct patronage.
We've seen time and again how important community is when times get tough. While the pandemic is an obvious example, we've had numerous instances where a loving passerby or customers stopped to help and show a touch of kindness. And each time, it reinforced that what we were doing, the spaces we'd created — they were good.
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