The Spice & Tea Exchange

Love this place. I’m not a tea drinker, but I love cooking. And let me tell you, any spice you could possibly want is here. They over lots of spice blends for cooking, and others to make dipping oils or to mix into sour cream/​yogurt for an easy and unique party dip. Some of their more popular spices are prepackaged while others are stored in jars and are measured out for you by weight if you’d like to purchase it. This is awesome if your trying a recipe with a spice you’ve never worked with before and don’t want to buy a large amount. I went in a bought 1oz of ground sumac which was about 3TBSP. The woman was more the willing to measure it out for me so I had an idea and was fine with doing 1 ½oz or whatever I needed. They usually have samples of tea out, offer gift packages and encourage you to explore and smell any spices/​teas you wish. Even if I don’t face a specific item in mind to buy it’s still fun to explore. So glad it’s close to home

This place is an experience! Love all of the spices and teas I have ever tried. Viks garlic fix is a must in your kitchen. I put it in pretty much everything. Great staff and atmosphere!

We spent maybe an hour in this shop alone.
A great selection of salts, peppers, sugars, teas, spices, etc.
Good prices, friendly people.
We bought the caramel sugar, Vietnamese cinnamon, and a few salts from far away places. If it wasn’t closing time, we would have bought a lot more.

A great place to pick up hand mixed spices!
You’ll find pepper, salt, spices mixes, stand alone spices, and tasty herbal tea blends that taste and smell !! So beyond compare than grocery store spices!
Spices are organic and fair trade when available.
Staff was pleasant and helpful.

I waited a while to write this review because I wanted to sample all the items I bought (which were a lot) and I have to say I was not disappointed. The loose leaf teas are great as is their flavored sugars. The green tea mints are delicious. The service was terrific.
I may have to re-​order some of my purchases on their web site!

If you are walking around in Newport this is a great place to browse. There are a ton of jars lining the walls. Each waiting to be smelled. So many flavors and scents. You will be overwhelmed and amazed. We walked in looking for some tea, but ended up wanting to buy everything! The only reason we didn’t buy everything is because we couldn’t afford it. There are a ton of spices and salts and teas. The salts and seasonings and rubs all looked and smelled delicious. They had concoctions I never would have imagined. Chipotle, pizza, popcorn, bbq, chocolate, everything! I ended up buying some loose leaf tea. Prices were high so I couldn’t get as much as I wanted. I was happy to support a local business.

This place is a chef’/tea fanatic’s dream come true. They have a strange way of showing how they price goods but I won’t dock them for it. They tag the spice jars themselves when they sell them by the ounce? When I see a price tag on the jar it looks like its the price for the whole jar.

As an avid home cook/​baker, I find myself needing to come here frequently as its one of the few places in town to get less common spices. I love their new location on Thames street level opposed to their old one up a flight of stairs. The staff is always great… they make sure you are comfortable and encourage you to open up spice jars and smell away. I also love that they have a customer rewards program which I take full advantage of. The smoked paprika here is one of my favorites. As well as all the different spice mixes you can pick to make a dip (onion onion, mmm). They usually have a few samples set up around the store. I also love their sugar mixes (can we say salted bourbon turbinado sugar? yes please!), pepper offerings, and I have even picked up cat nip for my cat. Plenty of gift options here — they even have some gift boxes all set up with different spices.
The location is right downtown on Thames street so parking is scarce. You could park in the brick market lots if you wanted to be close by. Otherwise its a perfect stop on a stroll down Thames street. Though you could probably find any of these spices/​teas online for cheaper, the service and quality is so great I choose to come here instead.

What an amazing place. Came across this store randomly while exploring Thames Street and was amazed with all their wonderful products — Spices, blends of spices, meat rubs, sugars and teas.
There are literally hundreds of jars lining the walls and you are welcome to open each and every one to sample all of their amazing aromas. Pre-​packaged portions of each product are hung directly above the jar to make it super easy for you to gather what you like. The coconut thai spice blend smelled amazing. So did ALL of the teas. I could have spent a fortune — Luckily it was around closing time when I walked in so I felt rushed in my browsing and only picked out seven flavors of tea. I will be back.

As the name suggests, its a bunch of tea and spices for sale.
But you can smell and sample to your hearts content. I love stores like this that allow you to sample and mingle with the merchandise before making your choice. I must have smelled about 15 types of tea from the containers on the wall before deciding on a fruity black blend. Not gonna lie, it seems pretty steep to pay $ 5 for a small pouch, but theres nothing wrong with a little indulgence once in a while.
The pepper and other spices smelt great too and I may be back for it if I ever need it.
Take a detour when visiting newport to enliven your senses.

This place is so cool. It’s a nasal adventure as you can smell all of the teas and spices out on the shelves. I probably smelled at least half the stuff they had there. After working the olfaction I decided to give my taste buds a turn and bought 3 small bags of various teas.
Mango green tea was mango-​tastic. Mystic Dragon, a blend of Chinese and Japanese green teas, had a pretty bold flavor. I have not tried the chamomile that i bought yet. The staff are super helpful and friendly and will not judge you for wanting to smell everything, they even encourage it. Only thing is the prices are a little high, but the teas make for good gifts and novelties.

My lanta, we loved this store! We stopped at the Newport visiting area before we embarked on an adventure and while I walked away briefly, my boyfriend looked at all the flyers they had out. I came back and he mentioned wanting to go to the spice exchange. While out and about walking, we stumbled upon it and went inside. This place is ADORABLE. It’s perfectly set up with the spices, teas, salts, etc lining the walls. The 2 people working made it clear we were able to touch everything and open the jars and smell whatever we wanted! He starts off by letting us smell this AMAZING tea (I forgot the name but my boyfriend bought it) that smelled like mixed berries. They also had dip out that I sampled and ended up buying (chicken blend dip). I also bought their black chocolate tea which I am excited to try. They are a little pricy for what you get, but I was happy to know they have an online shopping website so I am able to get more if need be. I always love trying new things like this and am glad we found this little nook! I would recommend going there, and the staff was VERY friendly and helped with all my questions.

Very unique shop, fun place to find a gift for your foodie friends. Quite a range of types of salt, loose leaf teas, BBQ rubs, etc. Items are quite pricey, with a small ziplock bag of tea for $ 5, but well-​worth it as more gift-​giving items than every day use items. The owner was very friendly and helpful as well.

I walked up to this 2^nd floor shop to smell the spices and was taken aback by how cute this shop is!
From gourmet teas to sugars and spices, this store offers the perfect creative gift for that culinary person and/​or coffee lover in your life!
I picked up some fresh Lemon Sugar for my iced tea and their Peppermint Patty Sugar to rim martini glasses for holiday cocktails. Their specialty rubs and spices make great stocking stuffers!
The best part about this store is you can pick up a jar and SMELL the actual product before you buy it.
Not sure what Arrowroot Powder is? Under each item is a brief description with ideas on how to use it.
Definitely stop in this store for some really neat stocking stuffers or a hostess gift!