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Tea

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Flour Tea: A New Tea Shop in Pasadena

    If Flour Tea seems like a hybrid of better Taiwanese tea joints and bakeries around San Gabriel Valley, it has everything to do with co-owners (and cousins) Nancy Ou and Johnson Wang whose collective résumé reads like a tea industry road map. Sitting on the corner of Cordova and Arroyo Parkway, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    6 Things We Bet You Didn't Know About The Boba Truck New Oxnard Store Location

    Since it's launch in 2010, The Boba Truck has become a serious contender in the Southern California bubble tea scene. Patrons know it for its unique flavors like Fuji Apple Green Tea and Rose Oolong Tea -- but there's actually much more behind the four-wheeled tea spewing machine. Turn the page for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Tempest in a Teacup: Cup Controversy at Half & Half Tea House

    To call the tea bar scene in the San Gabriel Valley vibrant is a vast understatement. Dozens of perpetually crowded small cafés across the 626 serve teas and boba drinks while providing socializing and studying spots for those not old enough to drink alcohol or those not so inclined. It's precisely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Tea Lovers Festival Returns with New Name More Tea

    An annual weekend event formerly known as the Kulov Tea Festival is celebrating its 12th year, from May 4-27, with caffinated herbs, dainty cookies, sake tastings and the Royal/T shenanigans we've grown to love. The renamed "Tea Lovers Festival" is now incorporating film screenings, tea studies, che ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Cafe Dulce Celebrates Its One Year Birthday Tomorrow with $1 Coffee and Doughnuts

    This month, Cafe Dulce turns one year young, and what a first year it's been for the Little Tokyo shop: it was one of our favorite newish coffee shops to open in 2011, and we continue to adore its selection of Korean cheesesteaks, bacon doughnuts and other delicious savories. In honor of its first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Coors to Launch Iced Tea-flavored Beer

    Flavored iced tea has been all the rage for a while now (passionfruit-acai-goji berry comes to mind). So the brilliant minds at Coors thought: Why not iced tea-flavored BEER? Last week, Golden, Colo.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced it will launch Coors Light Iced T in Canada next month ahea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Best Afternoon Tea: The Langham Huntington Hotel

    Augustus Gloop would never make it out alive. What makes Pasadena's Langham Huntington Hotel the best choice for afternoon tea can be summed up in one word: chocolate. On Sundays from noon to 5 p.m., the hotel's regular tea service, smashing in itself, is replaced by an all-chocolate afternoon tea. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    WeHo's New Matcha Source Shop: Green Tea Flip-flop Socks

    If you've never had a properly made cup of matcha, the frothy, powdered green tea popular in Japan, Alissa White, owner of the just-opened Matcha Source Shop in West Hollywood, is on a one-woman mission to make sure you finally do. Since launching her online store in 2006, White has been preaching ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Q&A With Eva's Gabriella Mlynarczyk, Part 2: Her Tea Liqueur 2 Bicoastal Cocktail Recipes

    flickr user vintage roadtripWelcome To California​When we interviewed Gabriella Mlynarczyk at Eva, she was sharing her first impressions on the L.A. mixology scene after nearly 15 years in New York. ("But remember I haven't been here long," she reminds us, laughing). One of the differences is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Los Angeles is The Second Least-Honest Big City in America, According to Honest Tea Pop-Up Experiment

    GQHonestly now, L.A.​Vegas? Well, Vegas douches are just Angelenos on vacation. Jersey? That's not a city. Miami? Too good-looking to be douches. We've said it before: L.A. is the douche capital of America. Honest Tea's annual publicity stunt in which it sets up pop-up kiosks with its produc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Drinking Tea and Coffee May Protect Against "Superbug"

    Flickr/Dominic's pics​ Regular tea and coffee drinkers might be less likely to carry the antibiotic-resistant "superbug" MRSA in their nostrils, according to a new study reported by Reuters. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston found that of more than 5,500 A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Arnold Palmer Drink Fight: Skooby's vs. Clementine

    As the story goes, it was sometime in the 1960s and golf master Arnold Palmer was thirsty after a day of designing a golf course in Palm Springs. As The King himself tells it, he asked the clubhouse bartender to make him a drink he often made at home: iced tea with lemonade. Someone -- a woman -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    L.A.'s Top 5 Tea Houses: Royal Wedding or No Royal Wedding

    Mark Ryan​ Long ago, in a time before the Venti Half-Caf Skinny No Whip Mocha Frappucino, there was tea. Not the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf or even the Teavanas of today, but unadulterated, delicate green leaves blended only with hot water. While this may seem like an antiquated idea in a land o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    The Hong Kong Waffle Where to Find One in the SGV

    Guzzle & NoshHong Kong Waffle, Tasty Garden, Monterey Park.​ One of the most popular snacks on the streets of Hong Kong is the Gai Daan Jai, or "egg waffle." Made from simple ingredients: flour, eggs, baking powder, evaporated milk, starch, sugar and water, the thin batter is cooked in a disti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Registration is Open For Kulov's 11th Annual Tea Festival

    Celia SoudryJapanese Tea Ceremony at last year's festival ​ If you spend way too much on loose leaf teas or savor bags of one-dollar genmaicha from your local Japanese market, you'll want to check out the Kulov Tea Festival. It's free and can teach you a few things: how to make matcha properly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Farmer Interview: Meet Steve Heil, The Art Teacher Who Grows Greenthread (Navajo) Tea

    J. GarbeeGreenthread All Dressed Up For Various Occasions​Steve Heil isn't the sort of guy you'd expect to be making -- growing, harvesting and commercially packaging -- greenthread herbal tea, also known as Navajo tea or cota. For starters, Heil isn't Navajo. He is an elementary school teache ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Want Coffee? Tea? With 3:15PM, There's No Need to Choose

    B. HansenA cup of coffee tea at Phoenix Food Boutique in Arcadia​ It's 3:15 in the afternoon, and you're dragging, half unconscious, unable to navigate the Web or anything else. What's the remedy? Why 3:15PM, of course. Designed for the afternoon slump, 3:15PM blends coffee, tea, milk and su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Top 5 Spots for Korean Shaved Ice: Or, Your Patbingsu Fix

    SupaflyKorean store window display for patbingsu​ The Korean shaved ice snack called patbingsu handily trumps even the most elaborate Fosselman's sundae when it comes to sheer, omg-inducing visual impact. For the uninitiated, patbingsu is like Pinkberry on psychotropic drugs: an often deli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Drink This Now: Earl Grey Martinez at 320 Main in Seal Beach A Cocktail Recipe

    Caroline on Crack320 Main's Earl Grey Martinez.​ Back in 2009, bartender Audrey Saunders introduced tea-infused cocktails to Los Angeles at Tar Pit on La Brea Avenue, where she partnered with Mark Peel (Campanile) on an extensive drinks menu. Saunders is long gone from Tar Pit, but tea-infused ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    JANM/Chado Intro 5 Generational Teas: The Solution To The Bitter Generation?

    JANMPick Your Generation​The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has released a new line of "generation" teas to correspond with the five generations of Japanese Americans -- Issei (first generation), Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei and Gosei (fifth generation). They could have been yet another run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Cookbook Review: Culinary Tea, Or What To Do With All Those Ceylon Gift Tins

    Photo Credit: Steve Legato​Coffee is one of those gifts that tends to fall into the select giving category -- only those friends whom you're certain love the dark stuff will be blessed with a bag of premium roast. Tea, not so much, as those little bags of perky mint and robust Orange Pekoe see ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    "Handsomest Man" to Appear at Sunday Tea Salon

    makelessnoise/Flickr​Though occasionally popular with an individual, we as an American culture have thus far failed to embrace "tea time" as a national activity. And isn't that too bad? More involved than a quick jacketed paper cup to go, taking part in afternoon tea, with all its accoutreme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    FDA Cracks Down on Green Tea Claims

    Flickr/KankoThe real stuff. ​ Seems "green tea-adjacent" doesn't really count. The Food and Drug Administration has told the makers of Canada Dry ginger ale and Lipton tea to stop making unsubstantiated nutritional claims about their green tea-flavored beverages, the Associated Press reports. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    How Honest is L.A.? The Results of Honest Tea's Social Experiment

    Last week Maryland-based organic tea company Honest Tea brought its unmanned, pop-up "Honest Stores" to L.A., gauging Angelenos' propensity for (or against) bottled tea thievery. The results, revealed by hidden cameras located throughout the Honest Stores, revealed what we knew, but perhaps hoped wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    How Honest is L.A.? Honest Tea's Pop-Up Store Puts SoCal Ethics to the Test

    NBC ChicagoHonest Tea's "Honest Store"​ Despite our downfalls, we'd like to think we draw the line when it comes to stealing. To test this theory -- and the honor system -- try heading to Maryland-based organic tea company Honest Tea's unmanned pop-up "Honest Stores," loaded with one dollar b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Triangulating Boba: In Search of LA's Best Taro Milk Tea

    Flickr/permanently scatterbrained​ In this Year of the Tiger 2010, there are perhaps as many boba shops filling the L.A. basin as there are intersections to hold them. I imagine container ships stacking up in San Pedro Bay bearing nothing but vacuum-sealed tapioca pearls from the food factorie ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Culinary Tour

    Flickr/permanently scatterbrained​ In this Year of the Tiger 2010, there are perhaps as many boba shops filling the L.A. basin as there are intersections to hold them. I imagine container ships stacking up in San Pedro Bay bearing nothing but vacuum-sealed tapioca pearls from the food factorie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    From Japanese Tea Ceremonies to a Jumping Clown: Kulov's Tea Festival

    Kulov's Tea Festival is not your average tea party, but then there isn't much that is average at Royal/T, the Japanese-style cosplay café in Culver City. In addition to tea, there was a contemporary Indian dancer, a classically trained British clown, and matcha -- lots and lots of matcha. Saturday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Kulov's 10th Annual Tea Festival at Royal/T

    Kulov Tea Festival​ Sipping rare and aged teas may not be as mainstream as getting your triple espresso caffeine fix, but then neither is learning proper tea drinking etiquette whilst being served by cute little Asian-girl waitresses dressed up as French maids. On Saturday and Sunday, May 1-2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Top 10 Kit Kat Flavors You've Probably Never Tried

    A licensed product of America's own Hershey Company, the American Kit Kat is a timeless chocolate bar. It's sturdy and it's brown. Like the logs that built Lincoln's cabin and equally as exciting. Yet overseas, and in the rest of the Kit Kat-eating world, the bar is made by the Swiss corporation Nes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    American Tea Room Opens Full Service Tea Bar: Let them Eat Earl Grey Petits Fours

    American Tea Room in Beverly Hills is a high end retailer of organic and non-organic teas, accessories and accoutrements, a spot where you can mosey on in after shopping (or window shopping) on Rodeo Drive, after grabbing a bite to eat with the posh 90210 crowd at Enoteca Drago across the street. Si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Best Offbeat Music Series in a Museum: The Museum of Jurassic Technology

    Best Offbeat Music Series in a Museum: The Museum of Jurassic Technology

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Algabar Closing La Brea Tea Shop, 50% off Everything (Except Tea)

    Photo Credit: AlgabarAlgabar, this could be your home...​ Bad news for connoisseurs of posh imported teas, good news for lovers of black rattans: Algabar Home & Life, mid-city purveyor of tea, fragrance and home decor, will be closing it's Los Angeles location at the end of September, and ever ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    Tea Exhibit

    Photo Credit: AlgabarAlgabar, this could be your home...​ Bad news for connoisseurs of posh imported teas, good news for lovers of black rattans: Algabar Home & Life, mid-city purveyor of tea, fragrance and home decor, will be closing it's Los Angeles location at the end of September, and ever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    The Evolution of a Sommelier: From Baggage Handler to Wine, Beer and Now Tea Expert

    Jenn GarbeeAnthony Anguille and his Potions​Anthony Anguille knows his pu-erh, the pressed large leaf tea prized for its earthy flavor and wine-like proclivity to aging. The 22-year-old is the "tea sommelier" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. "A colleague had introduced a tea program to pair w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Pour Favor: Tea Exhibit at the Fowler Museum

    Most of us tend to think of tea as being calming, peaceful, quiet. Not Beatrice Hohenegger. For the past 10 years, the author of Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West (St. Martin's Press) has traveled the globe studying the rich, often troubling history of the stuff. She's been to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    More Ways to Enjoy Cold or Frozen Teas This Summer: Coolhaus Comes to Algabar, Collaborates with MILK

    Photo credit: Jessica RitzCoolhaus now chills out with tea.​Algabar Home & Life shop and the Coolhaus ice cream sandwich/architecture fandom truck bring more fine tastes together in August and September. On select evenings starting tonight at 8-9:00 p.m., Coolhaus's silver and pink happy machi ... More >>

  • LA Life

    June 4, 2009

    In Hot Water: Steeping at the World Tea Expo

    Experts on the ancient brew converge in Vegas

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2009

    It's High Time!

    Experts on the ancient brew converge in Vegas

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    World Tea Expo Report: Tea Sandwiches -- A Few Small Suggestions for Aspiring Tea Party Hosts & People Who Like Their Sandwiches Shaped Like Flowers

    Sandwich samples at Kim Hendrickson's Tea Sandwich workshop Tea sandwiches are appealing to three types of people: (1) old fashioned biddies, (2) people on diets who believe that the tea sandwich's smallness nullifies its caloric impact, as if you can "sneak the food by" your esophagus--these are t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    World Tea Expo Report: Cutting Edge Teapot Technology

    The Hario Chaor Tea Maker snagged the "Best New Product" award at the World Tea Expo this weekend. Sungarden Tea company is the official North American exporter of Hario heat resistant glassware. The dapper Japanese gentleman demonstrating the winning product at their booth in the Mandalay Bay Con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2009

    World Tea Expo Report: Like Tea for Chocolate -- Laurie Nienhaus's Chocolate-and-Tea Workshop Makes Your Tongue Work Harder

    Gendy AlimurungYou see, I HAVE to eat all this chocolate and drink this tea -- this is serious work, people! I attended "tea playwright" Laurie Nienhaus's Chocolate & Tea workshop at the World Tea Expo this weekend in Las Vegas. (Watch Squid Ink for more tea dispatches.) "Chocolate and tea," Nien ... More >>

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Best Wake-Up Call

    Urth Caffé’s Japanese Tea Latte

  • Film+TV

    October 4, 2007

    Strangers On a Train

    Unpacking the literal and figurative baggage of The Darjeeling Limited

  • LA Life

    April 12, 2007

    In Hot Water

    Where to spend teatime in L.A.

  • Eat+Drink

    March 22, 2007

    Dessert Wasteland

    Looking for the sweet spot

  • LA Life

    June 29, 2006

    Toxin Avenger

    A party girl cleans up her tract... er, act during the 21-Day Detox

  • Eat+Drink

    April 20, 2000

    The Chai Life

    In search of real Indian tea

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    From a to Tea

    A guide to ready-to-drink iced teas

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