Red Bud Gift Shop Llc - Shipshewana

This is a really cute shop on the top floor of the Red barn Shoppes. Lots of tea, pots, cups, etc. Also puzzles, crafts, kitchen items. In the back, there is a food counter with sandwiches, salads, desserts and pretzels. These are not your typical pretzels. These are huge, buttery, salty, yeasty creations. They are braided, but have risen so high that they resemble yeast dinner rolls. You can make a sandwich out of them. They melt in your mouth. I could never eat a whole pretzel in one sitting, but a short zap in the microwave later in the day made them taste as fresh as when I first got it. These blow all the other pretzel places out of the water. They are that good.

Can't say anything about the teas or coffee, but the pretzel is probably the best I have ever had. I pushed my daily sodium load for a very good reason. Will definitely have another some day.

Really yummy baked good and sandwiches. Salad only so so. Coffee in varioety of ways, tea to of course. only problem is the choolates that were in jats looked old.

I’ve been to many tea shops and this one looked a lot better on the website. It was smokey and smelled like burned grease from the pretzels in the back. The tea section was wide but there were only two kinds of tea to sample. The cafe part seemed confused when I wanted to order a speciality tea to drink (because there were no samples of it or offers of samples). The cafe clerk was flat out rude and told me to go ask the clerk in the front of the shop. It was very odd. Then I had to carry the tea bag back to the cafe so they could actually make the tea. Super weird. And expensive for what you actually get. I didn’t want to buy any of the packaged tea at that point. Also, it doesn’t say anywhere that they mix or make the tea themselves. My guess is they are buying bulk loose tea and repackaging it at a mark up. Lots of places do that, it’s not a crime, but it’s also not very special. I would not go back there ever again.

The pretzels! Go early. They sell out!!! I had them for the first time last year and have been dreaming of them since. I'm going back to Shipshewana soon and this will be my first stop in town.... and hopefully.... all three days I'm there! *drooling*