The NYTS Tea Studio, Sharing Gongfu Tea and Community

The NYTS Tea Studio, Sharing Gongfu Tea and Community

From Talking Tea by Ken Cohen

December 26, 2025 · 48 min

About this episode

Ken Cohen interviews Roy Lamberty about the New York Tea Society's new Tea Studio and its community-focused approach to gongfu tea.

We're very excited to be at the New York Tea Society's new Tea Studio in midtown Manhattan, chatting with NYTS' founder Roy Lamberty. Roy was a guest on Talking Tea in 2018 and he's back today to talk with us about how NYTS has evolved since our earlier episode, and how its beautiful new Tea Studio came to be. Roy tells us about his experiences around gongfu tea tables in China, and his vision of building those experiences into a tranquil, communal tea space in New York City. We chat about the studio as a space to have tea on your own or around a communal gongfu table, its aesthetics and design elements, the studio's location in New York's Koreatown, and Roy's very successful work in building community through tea. We also delve into the sourcing of some of NYTS's very unique tea offerings. Roy talks with us about the lineup of events and themed sessions at the tea studio, and the NYTS tea education programming at the studio and through the NYTS online virtual tea group and its programs. We also discuss NYTS' optional membership plans and its online tea market. NYTS teas and teaware are available for purchase at the tea studio and through its online tea market. Information about…

People in this episode

Host: Ken Cohen

Guest: Roy Lamberty

Topics covered

  • gongfu tea
  • tea community
  • tea education
  • tea studio
  • New York Tea Society

Keywords

  • gongfu tea
  • New York Tea Society
  • tea studio
  • tea community
  • tea education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Tea Society

Places: midtown Manhattan, Koreatown

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