Sips Leeds: Tiny stall run from front garden in Woodhouse becomes go-to destination for matcha lovers

Yorkshire Evening Post

A tiny matcha stall run from the the front garden of a house in Leeds has become a hit, with enthusiasts travelling from far and wide for their green tea fix. Perched at the edge of a property on Victoria Terrace in Woodhouse, ‘Sips’ is the creation of siblings Matt and Julie d’Albert, who grew up in the charming red-brick home.

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00:00Hi I'm Matthew, I'm the founder of Sips Leeds. Matcha is a green tea that's grown

00:06in the shade in Japan and China. It is a bit like a cult because if you love

00:10matcha, you love matcha. It's a little bit like Marmite, it's a yes or a no and

00:15matcha for some people is a complete yes with capital letters. We've added some

00:20ideas in our minds about the students coming up the road and everything like

00:24that, so we threw out some ideas and left it at the table and my sister came

00:29back to me a year later and said how about a matcha stand and we're like okay let's

00:34give it a go. So this is our experiment, we've been opening eight weeks. So yeah

00:40people are just turning up and loving it. We are the smallest store in Leeds.

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