What tea.events actually lists
Every session on this calendar has a date, a named host, a named tea, and an honest capacity number. That is the whole editorial policy. A listing does not go up because a season needs content — it goes up because nine cake-vintages are ready in the Kazbegi cellar, or because the Mí Lán Xiāng (蜜兰香) lots have been confirmed for a London pop-up, or because a venue in Saint Petersburg has booked its vendor tables for October. If a host cannot say which region, which harvest, and how many seats, the listing does not run.
That policy is deliberately narrow. It means tea.events will never be the biggest calendar in any city — only the one where every entry survives a second look.
Where tea.events ends and the neighbouring projects begin
Four other projects in the constellation sit close enough to this one that the overlap is easy to misread. Worth being precise about it, since a listing here often points to all four in the same paragraph.
- tea.place answers where — a standing directory of tea rooms, shops, and gardens you can walk into on an ordinary Tuesday. tea.events answers when — one specific gathering, on one specific date, that starts and ends. The same room can appear on both: tea.place for its permanent address and opening hours, tea.events for the one evening it hosts a Wuyi vertical.
- tea.catering supplies food and tea service to an occasion someone else is running — a wedding, an office opening, a private dinner where tea is one course among several. tea.events is the occasion. When a festival listed here needs a kitchen, tea.catering is the operational layer behind the scenes, not the audience-facing page.
- tea.services is the wider marketplace for bookable tea labour — hiring a master, renting a tasting kit, commissioning a private session — independent of any single date on a calendar. tea.events is what that labour becomes once it is scheduled, capped at a seat count, and given a door that opens at a fixed hour.
- tea.restaurant is about a meal, with tea served alongside it. tea.events is about tea as the entire reason to sit down — food, when it appears in a listing here, is a palate reset between infusions, not the point of the table.
If a gathering listed here also needs a venue, a caterer, or a hired host, the relevant sibling sits one click away in the listing itself. The gathering — its date, its capacity, its named tea and host — is what lives on tea.events.
Who keeps the calendar honest
The team reviews every listing before it goes live: pairing logic, capacity claims, and whether the tea named in the lede actually matches what gets poured. Hinson Tse checks program structure across the board; category review rests on knowing the teas from the inside — sourced and poured first-hand rather than assessed from a distance. Max Mihal handles the parts that keep a room running — venue logistics, capacity limits, and the onboarding queue for new hosts.
New hosts are read on a rolling basis. The bar is not fame or seat count — it is a real venue, a named provenance for the tea, and a willingness to publish a capacity figure that turns out to be true on the night.