Silk Road Tea

Silk Road Tea has operated from Victoria, British Columbia's Historic Chinatown since 1992, built around founder Daniela Cubelic, whom the Globe and Mail has called "Canada's Queen of Tea" and the Vancouver Sun has called "Canada's Tea Master" — two independent national media designations rather than a self-applied title. The shop's catalog runs across the standard tea categories — black, green, white, oolong, herbal, matcha, chai and rooibos — organized both by type and by a "shop by mood" system (calm, energy, focus, balance) aimed at customers shopping by desired effect rather than tea style alone. Cubelic has pushed the business past straight tea retail into skincare and bath products built around tea extracts, plus an in-house spa offering treatments alongside the retail floor — an extension consistent with her public profile as someone applying tea knowledge to culinary and wellness uses beyond the cup. The store ships across Canada with free delivery over $50 and offers in-store pickup for online orders. More than three decades in the same Chinatown location, under the same named founder, with sustained national press attention, separates Silk Road Tea from a generic specialty tea shop.