Ellen Kanner and Ray Marcotte

Ellen Kanner and Ray Marcotte own Dobrá Tea on Exchange Street in Portland. Inspired after a visit to a Dobrá Tea Room in Burlington, Ellen and Ray wondered how they might open their own in Maine.Having done everything from farming to teaching yoga to software design, travel photography and film production, Ellen and Ray were up for yet another adventure and opened a tearoom in 2011. They moved to their Exchange Street location in 2014.