Kelly Tisdale: the Teany founder who married Mike Myers

Kelly Tisdale co-founded Teany, the tea café and vegan restaurant at 90 Rivington Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, with the musician Moby in May 2002. She ran it for thirteen years. She married Mike Myers in 2010 and they have three children.

Most pages about her mention Teany in half a sentence and move on to her husband. That is backwards. Teany was a real Lower East Side institution with its own Wikipedia entry. It had a beverage distribution arm, an export deal in the UK, a fire, a health department shutdown and a thirteen-year run. She was the one who stayed with it.

Kelly Tisdale: quick facts

Teany, the business she actually ran

Moby and Tisdale opened Teany in May 2002 in a below-street-level space on Rivington Street. He was one of the biggest names in electronic music at the time. She was his girlfriend and his business partner.

It became a genuine local fixture rather than a celebrity vanity project. The café was known for its range of teas, its vegan menu and its interior, most of which Moby designed himself. In its first months it carried a raw food line called Go-Go Greens from the vegan chef Elijah Joy.

There was a drinks business attached to it too. Teany distributed tea and juice mixtures to shops across New York and New Jersey. In 2005 a UK retailer took an exclusive deal to sell Teany products in Manchester and London.

Who was actually running it

Here is the detail that reframes the whole thing, and it comes straight from Teany’s own documented history.

In January 2006 the café was refocused as more of a traditional tea house with a smaller food menu. At that point Tisdale took on a larger role on the business side and Moby took a smaller one. By the time the business was being written about a few years later, trade coverage described him as having divested from the place he helped create.

She is listed as the owner.

The fire, and whose call it was

On 19 June 2009 a fire broke out at 90 Rivington Street. Nobody was hurt, and accounts differ on the damage: Teany’s own record describes it as minimal, while local coverage says it crippled operations for a year.

According to Moby’s own online journal at the time, the decision about whether to rebuild was Tisdale’s to make.

She rebuilt. The tea house reopened in May 2010, briefly under the name Teany-ssimo, before reverting to the original.

The end

The last years were hard.

In late December 2011 a health department inspection recorded 90 violation points, including food held above safe temperature and flies in the premises. A December inspection had already found 58 points. The department closed the café at the start of January 2012. It reopened about a week later under new management with a lime-green refit.

By July 2012 the business was listed for sale. Teany shut for good in 2015, after thirteen years. Its own encyclopaedia entry gives October in one place and December in another, which is a small illustration of how quickly even documented history goes fuzzy.

The scenic artist credit

Tisdale’s other public credit is older and much smaller. She worked as a scenic artist on the television series Erotic Confessions between 1994 and 1997, and IMDb files her under art department rather than performance.

This matters because at least one New York outlet has described her as an actress in reporting on Teany. She isn’t one. She painted sets.

The marriage to Mike Myers

Myers and Tisdale began seeing each other in 2006, shortly after his divorce from the writer and actress Robin Ruzan was finalised in 2005. They kept it quiet for years, and it only became public when holiday photographs appeared in the press.

They married in 2010 in a private ceremony in New York. The public did not find out for about five months.

They have three children, all born in New York City and all announced publicly at the time. Spike Alan arrived in September 2011, Sunday Molly in April 2014, and Paulina Kathleen in November 2015. The family lives in New York.

The wedding date problem

Here is a discrepancy worth knowing about, because everybody sources this from the same place and nobody has noticed it.

IMDb’s page on Tisdale lists her marriage to Myers as beginning on 22 November 2010. The trivia section of the same page says they married on 4 October 2010.

Two dates, seven weeks apart, on one page. Every article that cites IMDb for the wedding date is picking one of them without mentioning the other exists. Until a primary record surfaces, “2010” is the only part anyone should state with confidence.

What isn’t verified about Kelly Tisdale

1. Her birth date and birthplace. The 27 March 1977 date in Templeton, Massachusetts comes from a user-editable family wiki, not a record. Pages that publish it as fact are trusting an anonymous edit.
2. Her parents’ names. Same source, same problem.
3. Her height, weight, hair and eye colour. One profile publishes all four for a woman who has never given an interview.
4. Her religion and sexual orientation. The same profile lists both in a table. Neither belongs on a page about a private person, sourced or not.
5. Her university. Suffolk University appears on one page with nothing behind it.
6. A net worth. No figure exists. Ones you find are her husband’s or invented.
7. That she is an actress. She is a scenic artist with one art department credit.

One more thing to watch if you’re researching the name: Ashley Tisdale’s older sister was born Jennifer Kelly Tisdale. Different person.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Kelly Tisdale?

An American business owner who co-founded the New York café Teany and is married to Mike Myers.

What is Kelly Tisdale’s business?

Teany, a tea café and vegan restaurant at 90 Rivington Street, which she founded with Moby in 2002 and ran until 2015.

Was Kelly Tisdale in a relationship with Moby?

Yes. They were together when they opened Teany, and she continued running the business after the relationship ended.

When did Kelly Tisdale marry Mike Myers?

In 2010. Sources give two different dates in that year, so the month isn’t settled.

How many children do they have?

Three: Spike, Sunday and Paulina, born in 2011, 2014 and 2015.

Is Kelly Tisdale an actress?

No. She has one screen credit, as a scenic artist on a 1990s television series.

What is Kelly Tisdale’s net worth?

Unknown. No credible figure has ever been published for her.

Conclusion

There is a version of this story where Kelly Tisdale is Mike Myers’ wife and that is the whole of it. It is the version most pages tell.

The better one goes like this. She opened a café with a famous boyfriend in 2002 and took over running it when he stepped back. She decided herself to rebuild after a fire. She kept it going through a health department closure, and closed it after thirteen years. Then she married someone else entirely. The restaurant was hers longer than either relationship was news.

Jackson Padilla

JacksonPadilla is a writer at Around Celebrities, covering celebrity families, relationships, biographies, and the stories behind the stars. With a focus on clear and engaging storytelling, Kole helps readers discover the people and connections beyond the spotlight.