stack of two hand thrown tea bowls with natural glaze color drips around rim
stack of two grey and deep mauve tea bowls
sunset and beige glazed handmade clay tea bowl
dark grey, black, and brown handmade local pottery bowls
beige speckled tea bowl from local Catskills potter

Ben Suga Pottery Tea Bowls

$ 32.00

Our handmade tea bowls from local Upstate potter Ben Suga are perfect for enjoying tea in a meditative moment. It is one of life's simplest pleasures to fully appreciate the experience of sipping the liquor of leaves in a beautiful high fired glazed ceramic bowl. Each bowl has such unique variations of color and texture to the eye, we think they make it easy to get lost in thought.

These tea bowls make an ideal gift and, like many of the best bowls, have been known to serve in many capacities, including serving berries, nuts, and oats!

A ceramics studio based out of the Catskill Mountains, NY, Suga Pottery focuses on high quality, Karatsu-style tableware and sculpture. Each piece is hand built to last by artist Ben Suga and imbued with his love of the art.

Dimensions: 4½ inch diameter, 2⅝ inch height

White bags of loose tea on shelves at Saratoga Tea & Honey Co.

Our passion for teas...

We are delighted to be able to share one of the largest and most varied collections of single origin traditional teas on the East Coast with our communi·tea. Personally curated by owner Hayley, these teas come to us from small farms and collectives and represent the best of their terroirs and production styles. While wondering our shelves in-person or online, you will discover familiar favorites like English Breakfast and Long Jing (Dragonwell) alongside rare teas like Shan Lin Xi and herbal tisanes blended for mindfulness, inflammation, and much more.

wall of monofloral raw honeys at Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. in Saratoga Springs NY

& bees...

Raw honey is one of nature's most marvelous gifts. Not only is honey a marvel of energy-giving carbohydrates fortified with antioxidants, minerals and beneficial enzymes - making it the healthiest natural sugar - honey comes in a rainbow of flavors and varieties with something for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. From dark, robust honeys like Buckwheat and Chestnut to light or amber honeys like Tupelo or Orange Blossom, the subtle and sometimes not so subtle flavor differences between varietal honeys lend themselves to extraordinary flavor combinations and experimentation in the kitchen, on the charcuterie board, or in your favorite cup of tea.

all started with our Queen Bee!

A trained chef, Hayley's vision for Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. has been her entire lifetime in the making. Though she was still drinking espresso at the time, the Tea & Honey seeds were planted in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with training and appreciation for food and beverage as not just sustenance, but experience and hospitality. Her time spent as a chef-instructor at Jacques Pépin's French Culinary Institute introduced her first to matcha (and its ability to enhance sustained and steady focus), then to the subtleties of single-origin traditional teas like high mountain Taiwanese oolong. As a celebrated and awarded taster and master of culinary arts, in 2015 Hayley opened the doors to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Since then, she has cultivated a communi·tea for discovering rare and exciting teas, extraordinary raw honeys & unique gifts produced by small farmers and artisans from around the world.