Events
San Francisco is a notoriously late riser; the fog that covers our coastal city makes the days start slowly, wrapping around us in a woolly blanket of grey. We lean into these qualities here in the studio, gradually bringing up the lights, setting a kettle to boil, running a finger across the canisters of tea in search of the perfect accompaniment to our mood…
Mornings are time of reflection, and unfurling - both the twisted leaves of tea in piping hot water, and our minds and bodies as the sun slowly seeps through the windows and across the floor.Quiet Mornings at Song offers us the opportunity to share this liminal space with you, and to embrace community over pots of freshly brewed tea.
Join Song’s founder, Peter Luong in an intimate group tasting, here at Song. We’ll gather near the glow of the windows, brewing, sipping, and discussing the origins, flavors, and stories of a changing series of curated teas, as the day outside begins its slow unfolding.
Quiet Mornings @ Song, Holidays
Session Dates: December 2024
This month's Quiet Mornings at Song features teas whose character and aromatics are evocative of the holidays. Over the course of two hours, you'll discover teas both from the Song Collection, and from Peter's private stash, each redolent with the warming, invigorating notes the holiday season calls for.
Each tasting session seats 6, and will last approximately 2 hours. Dates, times, and tickets for each seating can be found on TOCK.
Location: Song Tea & Ceramics, 2120 Sutter St., San Francisco
Song in Residence: Los Angeles
Tea Bar @ How's It Going to End?
Saturday, October 12 (multiple times)
A condensed version of our Quiet Mornings tea tastings, Song’s Tea Bar offers hourly tasting to guests against the beautiful backdrop of our friends at How’s It Going to End?, a new coffee shop in Montrose, CA. Join Peter as he brews from a short list of Song Teas, chosen for the season. We will be offering four 50 minute Tea Bar seatings at How's It Going to to End? Each pre-paid seating includes up to two teas. Limit five guests per session, with one seat reserved for walk-ins.
Location: How's It Going to End? 2111 Verduga Blvd., Montrose, CA
Tea Bar @ Go Get Em Tiger, The Row
Sunday, October 13 (multiple times)
A condensed version of our Quiet Mornings tea tastings, Song’s Tea Bar offers hourly tasting to guests against the airy backdrop of our friends at Go Get Em Tiger at The Row in Downtown Los Angeles. Join Peter as he brews from a short list of Song Teas, chosen for the season. We will be offering three 50 minute Tea Bar seatings at GGET. Each pre-paid seating includes up to two teas. Limit four guests per session.
Location: Go Get Em Tiger @ The Row, 777 S Alameda St. B2 Suite 184, Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, October 19 (multiple times)
A condensed version of our Quiet Mornings tea tastings, Song’s Tea Bar offers tasting from a short menu of select teas at the Fellow retail store on Abbot-Kinney Blvd. in Venice, CA. Join Peter as he brews from a short list of Song Teas, chosen for the season. We will be offering two 50 minute Tea Bar seatings at Fellow. Each pre-paid seating includes up to two teas.
Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19 (9am-11am)
Join us in Fellow’s Venice, CA showroom for an intimate morning tea-tasting session led by Peter Luong, Song’s tea sourcer and founder. Quiet Mornings takes guests through a selection of our favorite teas, delving into the histories of each, our ideologies around cultivation and curation, and promises to draw forth the most exquisite notes from each successive leaf.
Each tasting session at Fellow seats 6, begins at 9am, and will last approximately 2 hours. Please choose from the following sessions.
Location: Fellow, 1342 1/2 Abbott Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA
Quiet Mornings @ Song, Si Fang Cha, Private Room Tea
Session Dates: September 2024
This month, Peter will be brewing a from a selection of Song's Si Fang Cha teas, including a yet-to-be released aged Buddha's Hand that tastes like yellow watermelon and orange blossom water!
Our Si Fang Cha collection is inspired by the intimate supper clubs of the Song Dynasty, featuring a small-batch teas for special occasions. We pull these down to mark special occasions - birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, the reunion of old friends... In addition to their exquisite flavor and layered character, they help us mark the passage of time, memories tied to tea brewing sessions that celebrate the extraordinary - and quotidian! - events of our daily lives. Sometimes, brewing a slow cup of tea is occasion enough to celebrate.
Each tasting session seats 6, and will last approximately 2 hours. Dates, times, and tickets for each seating can be found on TOCK.
Location: Song Tea & Ceramics, 2120 Sutter St., San Francisco
Quiet Mornings @ Song, A Glimpse into the Founder's Collection
Session Dates: August 2024
With the imminent enrollment dates for the 2024-25 Founder’s Collection, it feels fitting to revisit our favorite teas from collections past. Each Volume of the this program, now in its sixth year, has focused on a specific genre within tea. We’ve covered everything from aged teas, teas from outside China and Taiwan, highlights from the Luong Family archives, and more. During our August Quiet Mornings tea tasting events, we’ll be drawing on favorites from past collection to offer insight into the magic, and flavors, of The Founder’s Collection. In groups of no more than 6, Peter will brew and serve a selection of delicious teas and provide the stories and backgrounds behind them, giving context for why each was selected for this special series. If you’d like to know more about the upcoming Founder’s Collection, or are simply interested in joining a tea tasting here at the studio, we invite you to our August Quiet Mornings.
Each tasting session seats 6, and will last approximately 2 hours. Dates, times, and tickets for each seating can be found on TOCK.
Location: Song Tea & Ceramics, 2120 Sutter St., San Francisco
Quiet Mornings @ Song, Spring Harvest
Session Dates: June 2024
It’s a time we look forward to each spring, when drinking becomes serious study, and we flirt with outliers both esoteric and enigmatic before honing in on a core, harmonious assembly of this year’s Song Collection.
Join Peter, Song Tea’s founder and tea buyer in our San Francisco studio to brew, taste, and discuss teas from this spring sourcing trip. In groups of no more than 6, he'll provide the stories and backgrounds of each tea, and solicit feedback on favorites, inviting you to weigh in on the 2024-25 Song Collection.If you’d like to be a part of this annual Song tradition, or simply join to hear tales from Peter’s time abroad, we welcome you to our Spring Harvest Quiet Mornings.
Each tasting session seats 6, and will last approximately 2 hours. Dates, times, and tickets for each seating can be found on TOCK.
Location: Song Tea & Ceramics, 2120 Sutter St., San Francisco
Song in Residence, Los Angeles
Session Dates: January 2024
From January 26th through the 28th, Gallery KOEN will serve as the backdrop to a series of tea-tasting sessions led by Peter Luong, Song’s tea sourcer and founder.
Song in Residence: LA takes guests through a series of our favorite teas, delving into the histories of each, our ideologies around cultivation and curation, and promises to draw forth the most exquisite notes from each successive leaf.
Each tasting session at Gallery KOEN seats just 4, and will last approximately 2 hours. Dates, times, and tickets for each seating can be found on [TOCK]
Location: Gallery KOEN, 1308 Factory Pl. #505 Los Angeles, CA 90013