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Bay Area Teahouses Offer an Exotic Break from Coffee
Posted by Admin in Tea Culture / Ceremony, Tea Houses on January 6th, 2010
Teahouses’ Unique Blends Are Not Just in the Cup
NYTimes.com By GREGORY DICUM
At Om Shan Tea, the air is filled with the clatter of small earthenware teapots, the sound of ethereal gongs and flutes and quiet animated conversation. Tea drinkers cluster on reed stools around low tables surrounded by antiques from tea-drinking lands.
Patrons can choose a Gong Fu presentation, with a stream of different vessels and cups. Oshan Anand, the owner of this year-old teahouse in the Mission district of San Francisco, sits at an antique tea table of dark wood and stone and pours tiny cups of pu-erh, the aged Chinese tea that, like wine, is often known by region and vintage.
Georgia, USA: Tea room booms in recession
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on June 4th, 2009
The Magnolia and Ivy team room in Americus is surviving when many small businesses are not.
By Jana Barnello
Terri Eager’s been in the tea business for 15 years, but moved the tea room into the Windsor Hotel in Americus six months ago. Since then, she says business has been great. Mothers, daughters, friends, and family come from all over Georgia and the country to have a Victorian era themed tea party.
“Just having something totally different from the same old, same old,” Carol Rumph, who was at the tea room celebrating a friend’s birthday, said. “I think it’d be a good way to relax, get your mind off your troubles.”
Here’s a link to the Windsor Hotel if you’re interested in trying the tea room, http://www.windsor-americus.com/.
British Columbia: New business fits city to a tea
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on May 23rd, 2007
Prince George Free Press – Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
By Arthur Williams
Teaspresso and Fondue founder Daryl Chan and local franchisees Ron Hueng and Conroy Ou (l-r) toast the grand opening of the chain’s first franchise, located in Prince George.
Whether you’re looking for a quick tea or fruit smoothie to go, or to savour a pot of ornamental flower tea while snacking on all-you-can-eat chocolate fondue, Capstone Teaspresso and Fondue has got it covered.
Capstone founder Daryl Chan opened his first store in downtown Vancouver two years ago. On Saturday, local entrepreneurs Ron Hueng and Conroy Ou opened the first Capstone franchise in Prince George.
“It’s a pretty fusion concept. It’s not a regular coffee shop,” Chan said. “The things we serve are very special. There is nothing like it in Prince George.”
Capstone carries over 50 types of loose-leaf and herbal teas – including their speciality: flower tea. White tea leaves are hand sewn with edible flowers so the whole creation “blooms” as the tea steeps, Chan said.
Tea Rooms in Baltimore, Maryland
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on May 20th, 2007
By Laureen Miles Brunelli
Coffee may be the great American pick-me-up for on-the-go folks, but tea is meant to be sipped in a relaxing atmosphere.
That’s why teahouses are growing ever more popular in Baltimore. Choices range from a casual “tea lounge” to the re-creation of a formal English tea room. Or maybe tea an old-fashioned Southern tea is more your style? However you take your tea, Baltimore has a tea house for you.
Food File: Time for tea
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on May 18th, 2007
Times of India – New Delhi, India
High tea! It’s the sort of thing that makes you immediately drop gears to a gentle pace from a less hurried time. The rushing and the chasing of deadlines and the frenetic, loud partying seems to belong to another world. And the Taj West End has just the spot for this relaxing little repast.
The lawn off Mynt makes for a perfect setting, surrounded as it is by ancient trees and lush foliage. Here, high tea is served on Saturday evenings at tables scattered across the grass.
In fact, it’s a champagne tea, just to add a bit of fizz to the proceedings. The teas on offer include the best Indian ones: Sungma First Bloom, White Tea from Darjeeling, Assam’s English Breakfast and Manglam Golden Tips and Nilgiri Teas. It’s certainly a selection that will please the connoisseur. Then there are Sri Lankan teas, organic teas such as Lapsong Suchong and Japanese teas. Also, flavoured ones and herbal infusions.
Tea leaves say: ‘Open a store’
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on May 17th, 2007
Orlando Sentinel – Orlando, FL, USA
More entrepreneurs are reading success into what’s brewing with a buzzworthy option.
By Wes Smith | Sentinel Staff Writer
LONGWOOD — Angela Chavers grew up in Jamaica’s coffee country, but when thirst strikes, she drives past her neighborhood’s trendy Frappuccino and espresso bar. Instead, she heads for an upstart place with a different buzz directly across the street.
“My grandmother said coffee wasn’t good for the brain, so we weren’t allowed to drink it,” says Chavers. “But I love the soothing white teas.”
The Olde Cup & Saucer Shoppe in Longwood is among more than a dozen area businesses turning over a new leaf in a Starbucks world. The friends-and-family-owned store on State Road 434 focuses on the “loose teas” favored by connoisseurs who shun bagged brands, offering more than 50 varieties from around the world.
Uk: Tea leaves rivals standing
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on May 9th, 2007
Cambridge Evening News – Cambridge, England, UK
By John Morgan
A CAMBRIDGESHIRE tearoom has been acclaimed as the nation’s finest.
Peacocks Tearoom has been named as the UK’s Top Tea Place by the Tea Guild, joining the distinguished Dorchester – which won the Top London Afternoon Tea award – in the elite of providing the best British cuppas.
The Ely business won praise for an array of brews that takes in everything from Parisian vanilla blends to honest builder’s tea.
For owners George Peacock and Rachel Lemkov, the prize completes an astonishing rise since they opened the tearoom – with no previous experience of the business – on Ely’s Waterside in 2004. Rachel thinks undercover inspectors from the Tea Guild, part of the UK Tea Council, were impressed by the range of blends, the homemade cakes and the atmosphere.
Shangri-La brews a nice spot of tea
Posted by Admin in Tea Culture / Ceremony, Tea Houses on May 5th, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com – Des Moines, IA, USA
Surrounded by the lush Himalayas, Iowans sip a cup of high adventure.
By MIKE FELLER
Each year, my business partner, Rusty Bishop, and I travel to some destination within the tea-lands to learn about new products to serve in our tea shop, Gong Fu Tea in Des Moines.
We also develop relationships with the owners of tea gardens so we can directly import the best loose-leaf teas.
So in mid-March, we headed for northern India’s Darjeeling district with a side trip to neighboring Nepal (not far from the legendary fictional utopia of James Hilton’s Shangri-La).
Darjeeling is a remote portion of West Bengal. It’s nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas and has been home to Indian tea production for more than 150 years.
We timed our trip to coincide with the height of Darjeeling’s “First Flush” harvest – we wanted to be there while the very first leaves of the year were being picked.
Our trip began in mid-March with a 15-hour flight from Chicago to New Delhi. From there we took a domestic flight to Bagdogra Airfield.
From this point on, our travels were either by foot or in 8-passenger mountain jeeps – the roads were actually that rough and narrow within the mountainous terrain that is Darjeeling.
New York: Alice’s Tea Cup Opens Third Chapter
Posted by Admin in Tea Houses on May 5th, 2007
NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ — Alice’s Tea Cup, the enchanting New York City tea house and restaurant which opened its first location five years ago to rave reviews and lines out the door is proud to announce the opening of Alice’s Tea Cup, Chapter III, 220 East 81st Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
This new location, Alice’s Tea Cup, Chapter III is 1600 square feet, with a one-of-a-kind “Alice’s Great Hall” mural and a large gift shop and bakery continuing the fantasy of the earlier chapters. A great new feature in Chapter III is the cake decorating room in the window of 81st street so you can watch the masters at work.
In addition to their selection of more than 100 sublime teas, Alice’s Tea Cup offers an exquisite, full dining menu including the city’s best and most creative scones. Alice’s Tea Cup’s trademark delectable teas and specialty gift boxes are available online along with their imaginative merchandise. Please visit: http://www.alicesteacupgifts.com/
Native South Africans blend up tea drinking tradition in East Tennessee
Posted by Admin in Tea Culture / Ceremony, Tea Houses on May 5th, 2007
By LaSaundra Brown, Reporter
From the quintessential black tea, we get some of our favorite ice teas. But from black, white, green and Oolong, stem thousands of tasty tea varieties. Tea at the Gallery in Knoxville is home to more than 100 teas, some of them blended by owners Elisa King and Colleen Hayzen.
“You stop for tea for any excuse in South Africa, whether it’s hot or cold, happy or sad,” Colleen says. “Tea break is very important and we felt Knoxville didn’t have one so we wanted to share this tradition.”
Both ladies moved to Knoxville some 10 years ago when their husbands transferred for work. It was an unusual meeting that later transformed into business partners.
“Colleen had a bumper sticker on her car, and I was filling up with gas, and saw this bumper sticker and thought I would introduce myself to a fellow South African,” Elisa says.
They became good friends, and a couple of years after meeting, Elisa suggested the two of them open a tea room together.
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