Restaurant Tea Service, Inc.
"The Brewed Beverage Specialist"
Products
ICED TEA

We offer the two best recognized brands of premium iced teas,
China Mist and Shangri La.

China Mist Iced Tea
China Mist Iced Tea, the original gourmet iced tea, has clean, clear and refreshing iced teas that are among the finest teas available. These tea leaves are specially chosen to become iced teas, making them clean, crisp and delicious beverages.

China Mist® Iced Teas are available in a variety of blends to suit all of your iced tea cravings. Our Iced Black Teas, Green Teas, White Tea and Herbal Teas are delicious and refreshing. The smooth flavor profile of China Mist® Traditional Black Iced Tea makes a perfect canvas for the infusion of subtle flavors. Our signature flavored tea blends offer hints of exotic fruits such as passion fruit, raspberry and mango, while allowing the smooth flavor of fine tea to shine through.

Nearly thirty years of tea selection and tasting experience are brought to fruition in every glass of perfectly blended, fresh-brewed China Mist® Iced Tea. All China Mist Iced Teas are certified Halal by the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America; and certified Kosher by Kosher Supervision of America. Certified Organic Tea by the USDA, as indicated. Certified Fair Trade Tea by TransFair USA, as indicated.

Shangri La Award-Winning Iced Tea
Shangri La Award-Winning Iced Tea, a California favorite, is available in natural China Black as well as Organic Black and hand-flavored iced teas including our newest Organic Tropical Passion, Spring Melon, Tropical Green and Cocoa Chill. You get maximum enjoyment with minimal preparation.  Our Iced Teas are winners of 2 of 3 gold medals at this year's World Tea Expo and 7 consecutive American Tasting Institute Awards. You will taste the reasons that resulted in these highly regarded awards in every glass of Shangri La Iced Teas!
HOT TEA
Restaurant Tea Service has a remarkable selection of bagged and loose premium teas.  Leaves Pure Teas and Shangri La Premium Teas are available in a variety of traditional bagged teas and premium sachets.  Premium bulk teas are available in nearly 150 selections.  We offer complete training on how to select and serve premium hot teas.
Leaves Pure Teas ® Hot Teas

At Leaves Pure Teas®, the premium hot tea division of China Mist Tea Company, they travel the world to seek out the freshest and highest quality teas, herbs, and spices. We believe that serving teas brewed with superior leaves results in a better, smoother and more flavorful cup of hot tea.

All of their teas are caffeinated, unless otherwise noted.


Leaves' years of selective buying and blending of high quality teas can be tasted in every cup of Leaves Pure Teas.  They are available in Whole-Leaf Loose, Whole-Leaf Hot Tea Sachets and Premium Hot Tea Bags.

Shangri La Premium Hot Teas
Shangri La Premium Hot Teas are available in silken sachets, traditional teabags and loose. 

Shangri La produces 11 exceptional organic tea varieties in their new Sachet format. These leaf-style teas are beautifully and conveniently packaged in silken sachets that reflect the quality of Shangri La teas.  Tea Sachets offer the best of both worlds, the complex flavors and aromas of leaf-style teas and the convenience of teabag-like steeping. The flavors and aromas available in this line are unsurpassable. 

Shangri La Organic teabags set a new standard in this classic and convenient format. We use only the absolute finest broken tea leaves in our teabags, thus the exceptional aroma and flavor that steeps forth from each small teabag.Shangri La teabags, packaged 25 per box, are sure to redefine that way you think about teabags.

Shangri La offers a comprehensive selection of highest quality loose leaf teas.  These  loose teas are sure to satisfy those who preferring the classic method of steeping loose tea in a tea pot.  Shangri La tea leaves are carefully selected, many from their own estates, to please the most discriminating of palates. The freshness and quality of our loose leaf tea is evident in every cup you steep.  These fine loose leaf teas are packaged in freshness barrier re-sealable stand up pouches that keep the tea leaves fresh and aromatic for many months.
 
COFFEE & ESPRESSO
We offer the most popular brand of Italian coffee, Lavazza Premium Coffee & Espresso.  We also work with local roaster, Jones Coffee Roasters, to produce micro-roasted estate coffees.  We can deliver fresh-roasted coffee to your door within 48 hours of production.  RTS also carries a selection of portion-packed coffees and additional whole bean and portion pack organic offerings from local roasters for your convenience.
Jones Coffee Roasters
As roasters, growers and importers of premium specialty coffees, Jones Coffee Roasters has been sharing a passion for fine beans with consumers, retailers and wholesalers in the Pasadena area and beyond since 1994.

Their beans are carefully selected from around the world based on quality as well as sustainable farming methods, uncompromising commitment to the workers and sensitivity to the environment.

We trust that you will enjoy their fine, handcrafted coffees as much as they enjoy producing them.  RTS delivers their whole beans to you.

 
Lavazza Coffee & Espresso
As a Lavazza Master Distributor, Restaurant Tea Service carries Lavazza Coffee in whole bean coffee, ground coffee and in espresso pods.

Lavazza Expertise

With over 110 years of history behind it, Lavazza, as we see it today, is the result of its tenacious and intuitive founder Luigi, who in 1895 acquired a small grocery store in the heart of old Turin. Luigi Lavazza, with his pioneering spirit, first invented the concept of the blend, the art of mixing coffee of different origins to obtain a harmonious, flavourful product. Today, Lavazza is the leader when it comes to quality and is the symbol of Italian espresso representing so the Italian identity worldwide.

Lavazza Passion 

Spreading the aroma and quality of Italian espresso around the world has always been Lavazza’s main aim. The popularity of the unique, unmistakeable taste of a Lavazza espresso comes from the strength of the experience, the use of the finest raw materials and advanced technological resources. Together with espresso, the symbol of the company’s corporate culture, Lavazza offers a complete range of products to suit all palates, consumer habits and coffee preparation methods.

Lavazza Innovation
The company’s fundamental values have always been its focus on quality, its determination and its desire to grow while at the same time benefiting society.