Infuse Tea

I’ve been to their location at Yonge and Dundas quite a few times and just love their iced signature coffee. It’s their take on a Vietnamese style coffee and they actually use coffee imported from Vietnam. It has the perfect amount of sweetness and definite gives me my needed early morning caffeine fix. You definitely need to try it out for yourself.

I was in the area and I noticed that these guys opened up another location. I’ve been to their other location located at Yonge and Dundas. Their teas are as awesome as ever. I noticed that they also offer loose leaf tea bags here at a fraction of the cost of their specialty brewed drinks at this location. Decided to try their tea bags this time around and I have to say their tea still tastes awesome. Flavour is a little more mellow with the tea bag. Their Vacuum brewing machine makes a really robust flavoured tea. It depends on your preference though but both are worth trying.
Japanese style Cheese cakes! I’ve had the ones from uncle tetsu, and I find these ones taste better. Their matcha green tea cheese cake has a more subtle matcha flavour. The ones at Uncle tetsu are pretty bitter.

I’m very rarely in this part of town, and it just so happened that I noticed this place while running an errand. Located just across from the Home Depot, on the ground level of Gerrard Square Mall, we were informed that this Infuse Tea location opened just 7 weeks ago (from the time of this review), with the other location being at Yonge and Elm.
Overall, a nice little place. Very clean, surprisingly spacious, indoor seating, with an extensive menu of drinks, and a fair number of fresh Japanese cheesecakes to choose from. Also, very energetic staff; you can tell they just opened as they went out of their way to inform you about their products. And like showing off a new car, they made sure to inform us about their new BKON tea steeping machine that’s «the first of its kind in Canada,» and the variety of looseleaf teas they have to offer. The overt sales pitches may rub some people the wrong way (i.e. the disdain for Davids Tea, etc.), but regardless, we didn’t mind — we only cared about the tea, which turned out to be quite delicious!
We ordered a 16oz cup of an oolong flavour dubbed the Iron Goddess of Mercy. The barista showed us how their system steeps the tea leaves and explained the use of pressure to bring out the true and natural flavours. Whether attributable to their fancy schmancy new steeping machine or not, the flavour of the tea was very distinctive, calming, and pleasant.
For one 16oz cup of tea (akin to the size of a Starbucks Grande), we paid around $ 5.64. A bit pricey for tea — while I did very much enjoy the flavour, I’m not sure I’m convinced I’d want to spend that much on tea too often. Overall, a solid 4.

Infuse Café is a spacious and modern tea shop specializing in tea; however, they also offer coffee and a small selection of Japanese cheesecake (not Uncle Tetsu’s — you’ll still have to line up for those unfortunately). Their selling points are their organic and fair trade teas and coffees brewed with their BKON brew system; this machine uses negative pressure to produce a concentrated drink right before your eyes!
Every drink is made to order with one of their two brewing machines; each machine has a setting specific to each drink, ensuring that iced and milk teas get an especially concentrated filtrate to maximize flavour.
Today, I tried the 20 oz classic milk tea, hot ($ 5.07). The flavour of the black tea was quite prominent, and the sweetness complimented it rather than obscuring it. The prices are akin to Starbucks. Since there was no lineup, my drink was made in under 3 minutes!