Hope everyone is having a good weekend! I'm just catching up on San Francisco posts...have about three more to go :) All this writing makes me itch for my next trip back! It will be soon hopefully - there were many places I didn't have time to visit.We spent one day of the vacation revisiting neighborhoods Monsieur P used to live and spend time in. He was a most excellent tour guide! ;) We covered a lot of ground - Pacific Heights, Nob Hill, Marina, North Beach, and then, sometime in the afternoon we dropped in a tea spot in the Castro. The place was called Samovar Tea Lounge and they have three locations in San Francisco (I eventually got to stop by all three locations on this trip).
Thai Iced TeaVery zen is how you would describe this tea salon. We could use a few places like this in NYC! The most comparable place I can think of is Cha-An in the East Village, and even that gets pretty noisy at times. Samovar Tea Lounge offers a full food menu, but the focus is tea, and the two we tried were just swell. Prices are high...think $8 for Thai Iced Tea (pictured above) and just under $6 for Masala Chai. Nuts, right?
Masala ChaiAhh, but the setting is undeniably serene, and the servers are impressively knowledgeable about the teas. And if you think about it, we're so accustomed to paying $13 for cocktails...why not $8 for tea right? bwhahaha. Maybe not. Maybe only once in a while. As a special treat. Yes :)
Samovar Tea Lounge
498 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 626-4700
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