Tea Market

Specialty tea retail shop and Tea Bar at 329 E. 55th St. in Kansas City’s Crestwood Shops, founded in 2002 by Certified Tea Specialist Stacie Robertson, who sources and blends all 100+ whole-leaf teas personally. A Mission Hills corridor fixture of 20-plus years; celebrated its 20th anniversary in August 2022.

Description

Tea Market is a specialty tea shop and craft Tea Bar at 329 E. 55th Street in the Crestwood Shops, the mixed-use complex in Kansas City’s Mission Hills corridor. Founded in 2002 by Stacie Robertson — a Certified Tea Specialist and holistic health coach — the shop stocks over 100 whole-leaf teas that Robertson personally sources and blends, positioning it as one of the most focused independent tea shops in the KC market.¹

The business operates both a retail floor (packaged teas for home purchase) and a Tea Bar where customers can order brewed drinks made from the house tea selection. Robertson’s background as a holistic health coach informs the approach: tea is framed as both sensory experience and wellness practice.¹

Tea Market celebrated its 20th anniversary in August 2022, marking two decades as a cornerstone of the Crestwood Shops merchant community.²

Ownership and history

Stacie Robertson founded Tea Market in 2002 and has operated it continuously since, personally curating and blending every tea in the shop’s 100+ variety lineup.¹ Robertson holds a Certified Tea Specialist credential and built the business around her holistic health philosophy, making Tea Market one of the few independently run specialty tea operations in the Kansas City metro.¹

The shop is a founding-era tenant of the Crestwood Shops ecosystem — the same corridor that includes underdog-wine-co, delbrenna-jewelry, homesong-market, bacaro-primo, aixois-bistro, and crestwood-flowers.

Tier classification

Tier 1 — editorial. Tea Market is a 20+ year independently owned, owner-operated specialty retail institution at one of Kansas City’s most distinctive small-merchant clusters. Stacie Robertson’s 20+ year personal ownership tenure, hands-on sourcing and blending operation, and Mission Hills corridor rootedness reflect the “pride + dedication to business owner’s roots” standard. Robertson’s KC-native status is but the institutional depth supports Tier 1 on editorial judgment. Revisit if native status is confirmed or contradicted.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: official site teamarket.com (e-commerce storefront — the shop trades online as “Tea Market & Gift Bar”); Crestwood Shops merchant listing (confirms teamarket.com is Tea Market’s official site) · URL(s): https://www.teamarket.com · https://www.crestwoodshops.com/tea-market · Confidence: High on retail pricing (live official storefront); Medium overall — the full 100+ loose-leaf lineup is not fully itemizable and the in-store Tea Bar drink menu is not published with prices online. menu_status: partial.

Specialty tea retail + in-store Tea Bar. Over 100 loose-leaf teas sold by the ounce, personally sourced and blended by owner Stacie Robertson, plus samplers, brewing equipment, and a gift bar.¹³

Retail — loose-leaf teas & blends (representative, official pricing)³

• A-Game — from $11.00
• Hot Mama — from $13.60
• Peach Nectar (Organic) — from $8.25
• Sweet Tea — from $6.25
• Mermaid Water — from $6.00
• Yoga Pants — from $5.35
• Bora — from $5.00
• Watermelon Quench — from $4.80
• Pollen Peace — from $4.40
• Full range organized by tea type (White, Green, Black, Oolong, Herbal, Chai, Matcha) and by “feeling” (Energetic & Focused, Calm & Relaxed, etc.); 100+ varieties sold by the ounce —

Retail — samplers, tea things & gift bar (official pricing)³

• Summer Sampler — $30.00
• Iced Tea Sampler — $25.00
• The Mug & Hug (gift set) — $124.00
• Rest & Restore (gift set) — $79.00
• Birthday Wishes (gift set) — $49.00
• Takeya Flash Chill Iced Tea Maker — from $38.50
• Salt on a Rope — from $19.00
• Botanico Natural Incense — $15.00
• Botanical Bath Tea — $6.00
• Brewing equipment, cups, travel mugs, healing herbs, essential oils, local honey, scone mixes, cookies/treats²³

Tea Bar (in-store)

• Brewed tea drinks made from the house selection¹

Full current selection and checkout: teamarket.com. Prices shown “from” reflect by-the-ounce / smallest-size starting points.

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Links

• Website: https://www.teamarket.com
• Crestwood Shops listing: https://www.crestwoodshops.com/tea-market

See also

• crestwood-shops
• underdog-wine-co
• homesong-market
• Registry

Sources

**** Map-pin needed: 329 E. 55th St., Kansas City, MO 64113 (Crestwood Shops). Confirm coordinates for map layer.

Footnotes

1. Feast Magazine — “Tea Market” spotlight — https://www.feastmagazine.com/dine/spotlight/article_088e6e80-a057-11e5-8f6b-574297af6ede.html — accessed 2026-06-30. Asserts: Tea Market; Stacie Robertson (owner, Certified Tea Specialist, holistic health coach); 100+ whole-leaf teas personally sourced and blended; Tea Bar; Crestwood Shops, Kansas City, MO. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. Crestwood Shops — Tea Market listing — https://www.crestwoodshops.com/tea-market (accessed 2026-07-17) — Asserts: Tea Market at 329 E. 55th St., Kansas City, MO 64113 (Crestwood Shops); 20th anniversary August 2022; active tenant. Corroborated by Yelp — Tea Market (https://www.yelp.com/biz/tea-market-kansas-city), which also lists 329 E 55th St. (Street number corrected from the prior draft’s “327” — both the live Crestwood Shops listing and Yelp show 329.) ↩ ↩²

3. Tea Market official online storefront — https://www.teamarket.com (accessed 2026-07-24). Trades online as “Tea Market & Gift Bar.” Asserts: “over 100 loose leaf teas you can buy by the ounce” plus everything needed to steep them; collections for Loose Leaf Teas, Matcha, Samplers, Tea Bags & Sachets, Tea Things, Gift Bar, and Treats & Snacks; live retail pricing — loose-leaf/blends (A-Game from $11, Hot Mama from $13.60, Peach Nectar Organic from $8.25, Sweet Tea from $6.25, Mermaid Water from $6, Yoga Pants from $5.35, Bora from $5, Watermelon Quench from $4.80, Pollen Peace from $4.40); samplers (Summer $30, Iced Tea $25); gift/retail (The Mug & Hug $124, Rest & Restore $79, Birthday Wishes $49, Takeya Flash Chill iced-tea maker from $38.50, Salt on a Rope from $19, Botanico incense $15, Botanical Bath Tea $6). In-store Tea Bar drink menu is not published with prices online. Official-site identity confirmed by the Crestwood Shops merchant listing², which links teamarket.com as Tea Market’s website. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴