BROOKLINE – Through the front door of the new Cozy Tea Cart, a customer has two choices: go left or go right.

Go left and they will find the shop and register, where patrons can browse the wall of teas and tea paraphernalia.

Go right and they will enter a living-room style cafe with various seating options and Wi-Fi access. Adorning the walls are photos of owner Danielle Beaudette’s trips around the globe in search for the best teas.

“Tea is not just a simple cup of tea,” Beaudette said. “Because I sit and drink tea with the people on the tea estate, it almost brings me back every time I have a cup of tea. There’s a whole world behind that cup.”

Beaudette recently decided to expand The Cozy Tea Cart from an addition on her home to its new location at 104A Route 13 in Brookline. The shop will host an open house from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, June 9, at the new location.

During the open house, the Cozy Tea Cart will host the Kaji Aso Studio from Boston, that will perform a shortened version of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony at noon and will accept questions after.

In addition to the large selection of teas, the open house will have a variety of local artists, ranging from painters to musicians to authors, and local businesses, who will share their trades.

“They’re all unique,” Beaudette said.

Before the Cart came to Route 13, this spot has been everything from a movie rental shop to a florist; however, past businesses leaving the building do not make Beaudette nervous.

“I think success for a business is you have to know how to market,” Beaudette said. “We have an existing customer base. We have over 2,000 people that receive our email monthly. We’ve been in existence for seven years, so my customers will come anywhere where I am. If anything they are thrilled that I’ve opened this because now they can bring family.”

Beaudette’s love of tea also started with family. Growing up in a French-Canadian household, there was always tea on the table. As an adult, Beaudette worked in software quality assurance engineering, testing software. During that time, her great-aunt left her some tea ware to add to her collection.

After her fourth child was born, Beaudette decided to be a stay-at-home mom, then she met the Texas Tea Queen, Pamela Aaron.

“There was a woman from Texas, and she called herself the Texas Tea Queen, and she was in Nashua doing a lecture on tea,” Beaudette said. “It turns out she had loose-leaf tea there. Now I – like everyone else in this country – grew up on tea bags. I could not believe the difference in the flavor. It just knocked me off my seat.”

After the lecture, Beaudette asked Aaron where she got the tea, and the Texas Tea Queen introduced her to various importers in the country.

“Once I got into it and started meeting the importers and learning more about it, I was hooked. I could never go back to a tea bag,” she said.

Beaudette then decided that she wanted to open her own tea shop: The Cozy Tea Cart.

“I knew it would be difficult because there’s no other tea shops in this area, nobody’s importing tea direct like I’m doing,” she said. “I didn’t want to enter into this without having a good, solid background and education because my education was in engineering, not tea.”

This drive led Beaudette to take courses with the United States Specialty Tea Institute, a division of the Tea Association of the U.S.A. based in New York. According to Beaudette, she was one of the first 13 to graduate from the institute.

Beaudette continues to take courses as soon as they are offered.

“I’m now one of 50 in the world who was certified through the United States Tea Association and I’m on their website as a tea educator,” she said.

The original plan for the The Cozy Tea Cart was to have a cafe style – like the new expansion has – but at the time Beaudette had to open the shop in her home on Mountain Road.

Joyce Collins has lived across the street from Beaudette for 15 years, and “thought (The Cart) was just going to be, not a hobby, but something very small. I had no idea what she had. The phone doesn’t stop ringing and the people just keep coming in all day. These people are driving an hour to get here.”

While Collins is not an avid tea drinker like her neighbor, she has been trying different teas, thanks to Beaudette.

“She has one that I like: chocolate strawberry,” Collins said. “Some of these other ones that she sells, I can’t even say there’s a particular one that people are buying, everybody wants a different thing. I thought there was just tea, like the Lipton bag tea.”

Beaudette travels to various countries to get her tea leaves, including China, India, Sri Lanka and, most recently, Taiwan.

“Being on the estate, there’s nothing like being there and meeting the growers face to face,” Beaudette said.

The Cart has more than 130 varieties, including black, Oolong, green, white, and the relatively new variety of dark tea from China. Their most popular is The Cozy Tea Cart signature blend, a Sri Lankan black tea with cloves for natural sweetness.

According to Beaudette, all tea comes from the same plant, called camellia sinensis, from which more than 3,000 varieties of tea are made. Each version depends on different factors the plant goes has.

“These are all harvested by hand and taken down to the factory,” Beaudette said. “Once the tea gets to the factory, depending on how long the tea is oxidized, the temperature of the heat in the rolling, and how it’s rolled will produce a different flavor in the tea.”

Beaudette also offers tea lectures outside of the shop, including The Basics of Tea, Tea Tour through Sri Lanka, Tea Tour through China, and Pairing Teas with Chocolate. She is hoping to make a Tea Tour Through Taiwan lecture using the information from her recent trip.

“I always recommend people start with (The Basics of Tea) so they can understand what tea’s all about,” she said.

For a list of lectures and classes, the online catalogue, and shop announcements, visit www.thecozyteacart.com.