In busy, buzzy Soho is the Bun House & Tea Room. Upstairs is a steamy street-food-style cafe serving Chinese steamed buns and large pots of oolong. Downstairs is a Hong Kong-style speakeasy, lit with neon green Cantonese lettered lights, it's a fun throwback to 1960's Hong Kong tea rooms and serves cocktails and a much longer tea list . . .
Tugboat Tea is based in Truro but sells online (alongside coffee) and I love their simple Cornwall flag-coloured packaging. They blend a large range of teas but their Cornish collection appealed most for it's local twist. Order them for your next British seaside excursion!
Tuesday Tea Tasting I first tried T2 a few years ago when an Aussie mate brought a box over for me. Happily it's now available for in the UK so you can try some yourself without flying 24hours down under for a good cuppa. T2's style is bright and bold and recently they teamed up with design duo Raw Edges to create a set of limited edition packaging for London Design Festival 2016. Each hand-drawn design reflects the colour, texture and patterns in the loose-leaf (all so pretty), reflecting the...
Tuesday Tea Tasting Do you remember your first afternoon tea? When I was a kid my school friend’s parents took us to York during half term. If was just before end of year exams so as a bribe we were told if we revised every day we would be taken to Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms for a treat. Needless to say we revised our socks off and it was all worth it. Afternoon tea at Bettys is one of my top childhood memories – probably the first time I had a full-on afternoon tea in what was the grandest...
An Honest Tuesday Tea Tasting Of course, all of my #TuesdayTeaTasting's are honest, but this one is particularly so due to attending the UK launch of Honest, and finding out a little bit more about the drink and its founder...
Tuesday Tea Tasting You wait all winter to do an iced tea review – and then three come along at once! No cold brewing is involved, Harry has done all the hard work for you…the London brand, Harry Brompton’s, is a small company with big ambitions: To bring fantastic British Ice Tea to the world. And happily for me, a box of their iced tea made it to my door. Harry Brompton's started out as an alcoholic iced tea (will be reviewing soon as part of my Boozy Brew series) but recently released...
Tuesday Tea Tasting My first cold brew! Well it is summer isn't it? Kind of - the English weather needs to sort itself out - but while the sun has briefly decided to pop out then it's about time I gave cold brewing a go. Flavoured teas are supposed to be a good shout for cold brewing so I used London Tea Club's Apricot Peach (Ceylon black with dried peach, apricot and papaya pieces). After following their instructions (like below) I had to wait overnight to taste my brew but, after loading it...
Tuesday Tea Tasting Just opened but already super busy is tombo Poké & Matcha Bar in Soho. Having never tried the green stuff before, but always intrigued by it, I headed to tombo during their opening week to see what all they hype was about. With a queue out the door (a 50% off opening offer will do that) tombo's new spot was taking orders thick and fast but the staff were friendly and calm. I went for a long, hot matcha tea (there's a long list to choose from so I went for what look the...
Tuesday Tea Tasting Curious about Curious Tea? Well, it's a monthly tea subscription offering two types of high-grade premium loose tea each month. You can pick your box...light, dark, or mixed. I love the little tea cards included in each package which explain each tea and have a space for your own tasting notes! Apparently they took this idea from the collectible tea cards that were produced in the U.K. from the 1940’s by certain tea producers for their loose teas. My box included 50g of...
Tuesday Tea Tasting Strawberry season!! I love it when British strawberries are finally ripe and we get to enjoy them topped on a cream-laden scone or floating in a jug of Pimms on a sunny day. Well Tea Blossoms have taken it one step further and added the juicy British fruit to your English tea cup with their Aussie Green Strawberry tea. Their bright, colourful packaging tells me that it's a green tea blended with rose, sunflower and orange blossoms, combined with the fruity aroma of...