St. Louis- The London Tea Room

Located at 3128 Morgan Ford Road The London Tea Room is a bit of Britain in St. Louis. A friend told me about it before I left to visit my sisters. The London Team Room is broken up into two different rooms, one is for people who have reservations for high tea/afternoon tea, and it's [...]

Bubbleology

Before we left London for good I saw a Bubbleology and grabbed a coconut bubble tea to go. Bubbleology can be found in several places around London including Heathrow Airport. It's a cute science themed bubble tea shop and I enjoyed one last tea before boarding the plane to head home.

Mitsuwa

Mitsuwa is a Japanese marketplace in the suburbs of Chicago at 100 East Algonquin Road  in Arlington Heights. There are several other Mitskwa's spread out in California and one in New Jersey. Mitsuwa includes a bookstore, video shop, grocery, food court, and bakery. On weekends they tend to have special events. Books Kinokuniya I always [...]

Kung Fu Tea

Kung Fu tea is located on the second level in new chinatown in the plaza at 2126 B South Archer Avenue. The only way I've found to get to the second level is by stairs, and there are several sets of stairs around the plaza to get up to the second level. When a friend [...]

Up…T

While we were looking for a restaurant in Chinatown I noticed this small bubble tea shop and made a mental note to go there after dinner. After dinner turned out to be surprisingly super spicy my cousin and I headed over to Up...T. It's a small shop that only had a few workers. They had [...]

The Drake Hotel’s Palm Court

The Drake Hotel is at 140 E Walton Pl. For my birthday a friend told me we were going out for tea and to dress nicely and to bring my camera but didn't tell me where we were going. She had made a reservation for us at the Drake Hotel for afternoon tea in the Palm [...]

Russian Tea Time

Russian Tea Time is located at 77 E Adams St. They serve lunch, tea, and dinner. For afternoon tea they serve it from 2:30 until 4:30pm. I've been wanting to go to Russian Tea Time since the first time I've passed it, but either haven't had time or my schedule hasn't overlapped properly with my friends'. [...]

Cukrárna Alchymista

While in Prague we spent a lot of time going to the Globe. I would lug my laptop across the river and it was exhausting. All for wifi and tea. Which is why when one of my teachers told me that in the past the students use to hang out at a place called the [...]

Globe

Since we were always looking for places with wifi we ended up with several that we frequented. A favorite was the Globe. The Globe was in founded in 1993 and is an english bookstore and cafe. It opens up to a shop with books and goodies and then you walk back to the cafe, grab [...]

Coffee and Tea Exchange

The Coffee and Tea Exchange is located on 3311 N. Broadway in Lake view. The Coffee and Tea Exchange is  a shop packed with coffee beans,  tea, spices, pastries and more. You can buy loose leaf teas or coffee beans to take home or have them made for you there. They have a wall filled [...]