Tea & Toast Co

Tea is by far my favorite caffeinated beverage and I was so looking forward to tea & toast opening up! I love the location inside DeSoto Market. They have tea lattes, tea machiatto, and much more. They do their own spin on their tea drinks that are similar to what one orders with coffee. I have loved all my tea drinks from here!
Cons are prices are kind of expensive, since I usually substitute my milk to almond. Also, the food is hit or a miss. They recently removed some of their toast items with other options, but the replacement items weren’t that great. The French toast was recommended, but it was pretty soggy and it just wasn’t flavorful.
I’ll stick to my tea latte, but probably won’t bother with the food items. Staff has been friendly every time I come.

I only gave this place two stars instead of one because my beverage was very good. That is the ONLY reason. I made the drive across town – as I am a Chandler resident – because I’ve seen the foam artwork that they so heavily promote on all of their social media feeds. I was super excited because it was (is) my birthday [today] and I was already having a bad morning and was hoping this would cheer me up. I am a huge supporter of local sellers and small businesses, but I am very disappointed by this one. Unfortunately I would suggest that people support another business.
The cashier didn’t seem to know what he was doing – if he was new then it was very clear and I would understand that completely. If he wasn’t, well he may have to learn more about Tea & Toast Co.‘s beverages to better help the customers who are unfamiliar with them. Furthermore, after ordering my $ 5 tea drink, I was upset when I received it with a plain foam top. I questioned the barista about it and was told I had to ask for the design when I ordered my drink. How was I supposed to know that after telling them that this was my first visit? And that it was too busy for them to make it. There were two people in line and my family and I had already ordered. DeSoto was pretty empty.
When my dad approached the barista in the subject she gave a long speech about how there was only one lady who was an artist and she wasn’t here and it takes ten minutes to make one cup of coffee. Honestly, she could have just said she’s not experienced enough to make those designs and the subject could have been dropped.
We also received a stamp card that you only receive one stamp per visit (even though the card says «if you buy ten»). So if you buy five drinks in one visit you’re out of luck! Or you will get a barista with an attitude who scribbles across your stamp card because you went back and told them that you only got one stamp even though you purchased five drinks.
All in all, my beverage was delicious (Caramel Cape with Soy milk). My sister ordered a Caramel Latte with Soy milk however and it tastes very bitter and burnt. Basically I would not recommend this place to anyone looking for good customer service, good coffee or pretty designs at your first visit.

We stopped in looking for something sweet and settled on a carrot cake. It was so moist, full of flavor and so tasty! We’ll definitely be back for more sweet treats!

Had the smashed avocado and hard boiled egg on thick toast with their London fog (earl grey with French vanilla and lavender). Both were delicious. The avocado toast was a hearty proportion for only $ 4! Huge building — two floors that go pretty far back. Laid back with a hipster feel. Apparently their menu changes often. Sounds like they have a pretty creative team back there. Staff was friendly and helpful. Overall great coffee/​tea house!

Came in for a simple cup of coffee, «barista» spills a large cup of hot latte on me ruining my shoes and drenching my shirt and jeans… Was given a simple apology and asked if I still wanted my fucking cookie and shitty coffee. This is «local» my ass, would have gotten better service and care at a Starbucks I’m sure… This place lives on the markets atmosphere but is sub par in overall quality. Do yourself a favor, pick up some coffee on the way here instead, come in and enjoy the atmosphere.

I’m a huge fan of DeSoto Market (formally home to a motorcars dealership built in 1928) and Tea & Toast Co. is one the businesses that operates out of here. I came here on a quiet weekday morning for breakfast. I just got regular drip coffee so I’ll have to comment on their drinks at a later time. They have a wide variety of teas and coffee drinks on their menu. Their food menu consists of breakfast sandwich creations using artisan bread from Noble bread and other breakfast items made from the neighboring DCM Burger Joint. They have quite a unique food menu which made it hard to decided what to order. I tried the Hernando (Mexican chorizo, tortilla, cheddar and egg on a brioche). I didn’t know what to expect but found it really good. The sandwich is baked and served open faced with the tortilla stacked under the egg. I’m sure some people will be put off by the prices, but I enjoyed my visit. A good place to stop by for a light meal.

I was told when I went there around 1230pm that I could only order drinks. They were out of bread. Really???

I drove from LA to Phoenix to try and it was worth the drive!

Tea & Toast is one of the fun new spots set within the DeSoto building on Roosevelt and Center in downtown Phoenix. They’ve got a front row presence, too, so you can’t miss them!
Menu options are about what you’d expect with a few interesting oddities thrown in for extra measure. For instance: they have «tea lattes» — basically tea brewed like coffee. Very unique.
Ironically, the one time that I visited Tea & Toast, I didn’t even order anything off the drink menu. Instead, I saw that they carried a root beer I had never tried before, so grabbed that.
Now, I consider myself a bit of a root beer connoisseur. I just LOVE good root beer. And this stuff rated up there in my Top 3, easily. I’d go back just for that. Silly, perhaps, but true!
My friend ordered one of their tea lattes and a chocolate chip cookie. My friend said the tea latte was just ok, but the chocolate chip cookie was the softest cookie she had ever eaten.
Unfortunately, just about everything within the DeSoto building seems to be just a bit overpriced, and Tea & Toast is no exception. The cookie alone was $ 2 or $ 3. A bit much.
Either way, I love this area of downtown Phoenix and DeSoto is fast becoming a community favorite, so I know I’ll be back. If you haven’t been, give it a shot. You’ll love the setting if nothing else!

Waited an hour to get my coffee. They got it wrong on the first attempt and then the second attempt was just thrown together. Horrible experience!!!

Really delicious breakfast sandwiches! I had the Cali and it was perfect. I’ll definitely be back again to try the toast and drinks!

So I really like the atmosphere of the Desoto. Lots of places to sit, good parking and lots of choices.
That being said, I’m gonna keep going here, mainly for Tea & Toast.
I have two issues with it though. Service wasn’t that great. The staff was speaking to someone and I stood there for a while they finished their conversation. I wasn’t in a hurry, and honestly I don’t care if they want to talk, but I was there for a good 3 – 4 minutes waiting. Maybe she thought I was reading the menu? Anyway, once she saw me, service was fine. Felt like I was bothering her, but the drink came quick. Secondly, the sizes and prices are a little crazy. The Small is literally a water cup you get out of a water cooler at work. I think it’s the same size as the cup my dentist uses to give kids fluoride rinse. The large was only a large if I was a toddler, and not a gigantic human. Considering I’m paying more than I’ve paid for some shoes for the drink, I’d hope the sizes would be better-​but in all fairness, maybe I’m just spoiled.
TLDR; drinks are small but very much a quality product and worth the price.

Cannot recommend this place enough! It’s a far drive for me otherwise I’d be in EVERYDAY! My favs are the Green Rose Latte and the London Fog.

I really wanted to like this place and gave it a couple of tries.
–The first time, I tried to order a large mocha and was told they did not have a large. The 12oz mocha cost me over $ 6. Mocha had no flavor and was missing coffee & chocolate. Basically, I was given a flavored milk drink.
–The second time I ordered an iced tea. The 16oz iced tea cost over $ 5. I am used to $ 2-​$ 3 ice tea and was so astonished that my small iced tea was so overpriced. It tasted no better than tea I get from everywhere else.
I try to suppport local bussiness as much as I can and I had such high hopes for this place but it is hard for me to support overpriced & tasteless. If you want better coffee, go to Song Bird, Lux, Giant, or hell, even Starbucks has better coffee and tea.

Very cool coffee/​tea stand in beautiful Desoto Market. I got an iced London Fog. It was balanced between iced tea and a rich milky latte. I’ll have to come back to try some more interesting options.

I am giving this place a lower review because I think this place could be truly incredible, but there are a few things they need to fix. The toast and Noble bread is excellent and I recommend the avocado toast and the banana and peanut butter toast. They are both really delicious and unique and worth trying.
1) Pots of tea. You are a tea place, please consider having pots of tea available.
2) Service. A little more training for your staff would go a long way. There was a really long wait and when we finally got to the front of the line the girl taking our order was more interested in telling us all about what she thought we should order rather than taking our order. We wanted an iced tea and tea soy latte. In the end I took her recommendation and even though I told her I didn’t want anything sweet she gave me a London fog tea latte that was sickly sweet and had chocolate syrup all over the top of it.
3) Larger breakfast menu and post what you are out of. There was only one menu and it was on an 8.5×11 sheet of paper in tiny type. I think a cool chalk board or other display would be great and when you are out of something you can cross it off or add a note. It is a bit of a let down when you decide what you are ordering and get to the front of the line only to find out they are out of something.
I am going to continue to try this place because I love Desoto so I hope it improves.

I just cannot even believe the customer service I received tonight at Teaspressa. My boyfriend and I went to DeSoto tonight for the first time and Teaspressa caught out attention. My boyfriend ordered a hot chocolate w/​almond milk and toasted bread with Nutella. He really liked it and he really liked the bread. I decided to walk back to see if I can order just some toasted bread because it looked delicious. My only question was whether it contains egg or dairy, which most breads do not, but, it’s always good to double check. Here is how the conversation went w/​the Teaspressa employee:
Me: «Does your bread contain any egg or dairy?»
Him: «Its bread.»
Me: «What do you mean?»
Him: «Its bread, so yes.»
Me: «Okay. What exactly does it contain?»
Him: «Both! Its bread.»
Me: «Well, it’s rare for me to hear that bread would contain both so that’s why I asked.»
Him: *blank stare*
And, I walked away!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
Why is this guy trying to make me feel so small and stupid. His attitude was so disgusting, it honestly just gave me a sick feeling to my stomach. I just cannot believe he would try to make me feel so stupid. I am so angry and so mad that I was treating like that. I will NEVER return.
And, to top it of, after all of that, I went to the Noble Bread original website, and under the ingredients for their County Bread, it did NOT contain any egg or dairy, if that is the actual bread they use.
Thanks to the rudest employee I’ve ever come across for ruining a business that I would have happily been supporting and be a regular at.

Teaspresso. Tea-​espresso?! Whaaaaa. If you follow these wonderful human beings on Instagram (pocketsizedelle is mine, by the way) they make pretty tea lattes and I was instantly drawn to them (punny, I know, because they do latte art). I went on my break the other day and got a black rose latte, which was so so delicious. I also got the avocado toast, which definitely trumps my home made version. Noble bread is where it’s at! I will become a regular, as they are opening at 6:30 AM very soon!

I’m from the east coast, and back east we don’t spread the love like they do here. It was my first visit and Cali took precious time to ask me about my day, my necklace, my pregnancy — and then she made custom recommendations for my morning brew and nosh. I ended up with the most delicious decaf red tea latte and a croissant with nuttella.
Awesome space, great for doing work or lounging and eating your yum yum breakfast!

I feel a little awkward being the first to review this spot as I’m not a coffee drinker. Never have been, never will be (probably). Even more awkward? I’m writing this review after coming here not for breakfast or brunch, but for dinner. Yes, I’m weird (as my friends and family will happily confirm). So what am I doing here? Well, I’d seen Tea & Toast’s photos of tasty looking baked goods and figured I’d stop by and check out the full menu. After all, they’re in the beautiful new DeSoto Central Market in Downtown so I figured worst case scenario I could grab dinner at one of the other concepts in the building. On this trip however, the worst case scenario never played out. The food at Tea & Toast was simply too damn good.
Tea & Toast has all the makings of your typical Downtown Phoenix coffee joint (which are in almost absurd abundance especially in the Roosevelt Row area). Coffee offerings? Check. Espresso machine? Check. Baked goods in the display case? Check. What sets them apart however is the baked goods that are not displayed, along with their fairly wide array of tea concoctions. I don’t drink tea that often, but unlike coffee I’m perfectly willing to give different tea flavors a once over. I saw they served something called a Charles Gray tea. I figured that’s gotta be something resembling an Earl Grey (and it was) so I got a small cup of that.
Then my eyes wandered over to their Noble Bread menu. Aha! Now we’re talking. Noble Bread for those who don’t know is a wildly popular Phoenix based artisan bread maker. You’ll find them at their main location on 22^nd Street and McDowell, at farmers markets throughout town, as well as various restaurant menus throughout the valley. Here at Tea & Toast, they’re using the bread as the base for some healthy (and not so healthy) creations with everything from fruits and veggies to eggs, to bacon, and so on. The one that caught my eye this time was the toasted bread with blueberry jam, whipped lemon curd, and ground up pistachios. Yup, that looks like a good dinner (go ahead, laugh). Next for dessert (go ahead, laugh again), I saw that they have a small selection of Nutella dishes. One of which was a croissant covered with brown butter and a side of warm Nutella spread. Yup, that should do.
Total cost for the tea, the toasted bread dish, and the croissant came to about $ 11. They make both the croissant and the bread dishes behind the main bar at DeSoto so it took about 5 minutes for the food to come out. As soon as I laid eyes on them, I knew it was worth the wait. I actually dived first into the croissant as I didn’t want that Nutella to get cold. Good move. They gave me more than enough of it to spread on that buttery croissant. And yes, as you might imagine, it was heavenly. I made sure I didn’t leave any Nutella behind on that one. Now for the toasted bread dish. Their bread rotates regularly but this time I got Noble’s sourdough bread as the base. Score for me. The chunky blueberry jam and smooth lemon curd were fantastic and the pistachios gave it a little extra crunch while at the same time another level of sweetness. Basically played like a second dessert (which in hindsight, should’ve been obvious to me). The Gray tea I got to wash it down was good, though a little puzzling as it had foam. Admittedly I’m not a tea expert so I’m sure there was an explanation for the foam, but it didn’t harm the texture at all. And it really did taste like an earl grey (at least to me).
So there you have it, the most unlikely dinner outing… well…probably ever. I think this place would do tremendously well as a breakfast spot for the downtown breakfast and coffee crowd, but at least for now it appears they’re only open for lunch and dinner (which not coincidentally is when the DeSoto Market opens and closes). Maybe soon they’ll open early so Tea & Toast can work its magic with the morning crowd. For now, whatever time of day you come, you can be sure they’ll have some tasty baked goods available. Like I said, I can’t speak for the coffee so if the coffee sucks feel free to offset my review. But if you’re coming for Tea & Toast’s tea and toast, well, if its their namesake its gotta be good, right?