Just off the art gallery-laden streets of 24th Street and 10th Avenue is a cozy nook of a space behind a red-bricked, Manhattan-sized courtyard. A pink neon sign aglow with “House of Waris Botanicals” denotes that yes, you’re in the right place (it is a smidge secluded) should you be after a cup of tea. Following a splashy midnight tea party at the Top of the Standard, the space has been soft-opened for a couple of weeks, steeping brews for curious neighbors and passersby who have popped in to check out the tenant. But now, the doors are fully open.
All of this is the latest iteration of House of Waris, a brand as prolific as its contemplative namesake, Waris Ahluwalia. Formerly, the label offered meticulously hand-crafted fine jewelry for the girl looking for anything but her granny’s pearls. It’s now a line of organic, botanical teas, because, well, why not. “House of Waris is whatever I want it to be,” Ahluwalia once jokingly proclaimed to me over a cup of his Love Conquers All tea.
Of the transition, the frequent Wes Anderson cameo-maker (The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel) explained, “picture me, sitting there under a tree thinking about what direction to take and it had been under my nose the whole time! I'd walk into the jewelry workshop in Jaipur and they’d greet me with, ‘chai?’” Ahluwalia said, recalling so many warmly proffered cups. “They were saying it to me 12 times a day!” And so he swapped emeralds for earl gray, rubies for rose petals, and spent the last five years developing a line of teas and botanical blends with the same precision he applies to everything he touches.
There are three custom tea blends (available online) and a whole menu of in-store options to be enjoyed, plus there’s a knowing herbalist on-site and at the ready to create a custom blend of benefit-rich herbs to suit your needs and ailments. “Nowhere else in Manhattan can just walk in and get a custom blend of tea,” he tells me.
Ahluwalia’s dried botanicals are certified organic and left whole—not ground—to maximize medicinal properties. He’s sourced the highest quality botanicals and herbs like Shatavari root from India (an adaptogen at the center of ayurvedic medicine) and rose petals from Egypt (abundant in Vitamin C).
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