Press and Events


Rare Treats

Rodrick Markus imports high end teas & find chefs' tough-to-acquire ingredients.



Next: Kyoto
Behind the Menu

Dave Beran, the chef of Next, called Rodrick Markus, an importer, master tea blender and the owner of Rare Tea Cellar, Inc "Do you have a line on [Japanese] maple leaves?" ...



Rare Tea Cellar
Opens Online Store

If you're a tea drinker, we suggest you hide your credit card in the freezer - this store is dangerous...

Rare Tea Cellar Launches Online Gourmet Marketplace

Rod Markus pops up at events and markets all year promoting his well-sourced higher-end tea from his Rare Tea Cellar. But now you have the chance to get the good sent directly to you...



Andrew Zimmern on
Why He Loves Chicago


He's spending time with Rod Markus at Rare Tea Cellar and seeing how Phillip Foss incorporates tea into dishes...



Insider Trading
Rare Tea Cellar Brings Its Culinary Secrets to the Masses


Rodrick Markus has been making your favorite restaurants taste better for years. Now he's doing the same for your pantry...


Stock Your Pantry with Rare Tea Cellar

Internet market places do funny things to the brain. Rare Tea Cellar's just-launched foodie fantasyland is no exception...

 
Cool Wares for
Coffee and Tea


Serve it hot or on the rocks: Rare Tea Cellar Lemon Berry Meritage...


Dose, a Fusion
Market in Chicago


Rare Tea Cellar, which provides tea consultations for restaurants like the Publican and NoMI Kitchen...
The saison ale uses Rodrick's "Emperor's Lemon Meritage," with a shandy-like flavor that resulted in moniker, "Sai-Shan-Tea...


Rare Tea Cellar
Be Sellin'
Rare Teas @ Dose


And so we’ve found a hero in Rodrick Markus of Rare Tea Cellar, a tea guru...

Oprah's Wrap
Party Libations


Besides sourcing exceptional talent, Seger obtained edible flowers from Chef's Garden, as well as the fruit pearls and rose petals from Rare Tea Cellar...

Tea It Up

Blame it on Alice. As we await Tim Burton's sure-to-be eye-popping interpretation of what Wonderland might look like, our dreams (or perhaps they're hallucinations?) are filled with tea...

Reader's Six Degrees
of Cooking Bacon

Purveyors who seem to turn up everywhere you look like Rodrick Markus (Rare Tea Cellar)...

Summit Bar &
Motorino Team

Up for Seafood-
Centric Prima

Seider's playing around with Tarragon, Lemon Thyme...from the Rare Tea Cellar in Chicago



Park Hyatt D.C.
Hosts Tempting
Tea Tasting
with a Master


It was spectacular. It
reminded me a bit of Horton's
experience when he first
heard the Who.