Would love some suggestions for high tea in a lovely atmosphere. Reasonable prices would be good. Thanks!

tea include rose, orchid, lotus, osthmanthus, and chrysanthemum. Quality of jasmine teas is based on several factors. Good quality jasmine green teas are picked in the spring and scented in the late summer when the fresh flowers...

I stopped by Clementine last week for afternoon tea, mentioned by someone on this board. Unlike the normal casual, fend-for-yourself atmosphere, they had two servers assigned to the upper seating area, and white cloths on the...

EWSflash — I love your description of your "algae bloom" in a bottle, and I know exactly what you refer to. Although I can not find it on their website to offer you a link, Rishi makes “on-the-go” boxes of small...

Get your train out my dear. I wouldn’t even try it up here. By the way, I had a very nice bubble tea in NYC a few ago at the TASTE OF TIMES. Sometimes, you just have to travel to eat well...

, but it provided a hot liquid to bloom the cocoa AND added the tea flavor. Unfortunately, I had long before misplaced the chocolate cake recipe, so I neve had a chance to test this method out. But I think it bodes well for the...

If you haven’t yet tried the Huntington in San Marino, it’s a must for tea lovers and garden lovers alike — they do a lovely tea service in the rose garden, which would probably be just starting to come into...

Not the green tea you get today. What would I have to buy to get that great old black-tea taste?

If you own a french press, I highly recommend that you use it for tea making, especially as it’s the same “mess” as making a large pot as a single serving, which is very little mess at all. A french press give...

menu (not sure if all of it is from Teance): White tea: White Peony, Longevity Brow’s Jasmine, Silver Needle Green tea: Dragon Well, White Dragon Pearl Jasmine, Immortal, Peach, Love at First Site (the jasmine tea wrapped...

of the tea, which when infused resembles a blooming peony. This rare tea comes from a pair of villages in southern Anhui Province, China, and is completely hand-made. Plucking only the finest spring growth, the leaves are...

in the grounds/museum – just go to a hotel/other tea place and save some money. The food is not amazing – but it’s quite good and it’s a nice atmosphere right next to the rose garden (which should be in...

anise hyssop and hyssop

borage

rose geranium