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'. [...]
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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 [...]
Caffe Streets
Caffe Streets is in Wicker Park on Division Street. They have some outdoor seating, like a lot of the restaurants on the street. Inside is a modern wooden format, with painted cow skulls and greenery. They have tall tables and chairs with extra spot in the chair for you to put your bags or coats. [...]
Wormhole Cafe
Wormhole is a cafe found in Wicker Park with a mix of a nerdy retro feel. Old lunch boxes line the walls, a dolrion sits in the back and storm trooper mugs hold stirring sticks and straws. Seating can be somewhat limited depending on the time, but there are comfortable leather chairs and a bar [...]
Milk and Honey Cafe
The Milk and Honey Cafe is located on the same street the Renegade craft fair happens in the summer. On a rather hot day a friend asked if I wanted to go check it out with her and I couldn't say no. Their chalkboard menus can be found throughout the shop, some of which take [...]
Filter
Filter is a cafe with plenty of food options that make it closer towards a restaurant than a cafe, a bit like Robust. Breakfast is served all day, they have a large selection of coffee, smoothies, and tea. They do not accept credit cards, but they are set up for the Level Up app. There [...]
Ipsento
Ipsento is a coffee house in Bucktown off the blue western stop. I went to visit a friend and while I waited I perused their menu. While I was there some of the workers were up front roasting coffee beans and a couple others were testing out the coffee, making cups and then testing them [...]
Argo Tea
Argo Tea is a shop that pervades Chicago like Starbucks does most places within the United States, though Chicago has a ton of those as well. (Argo Tea can be found in a couple other cities around the world) Argo Tea is basically Starbucks, but for Tea. There are about 5 Argo Tea's within [...]
David’s Tea
David's Tea can be found in many places around the United States and Canada. There are three in Chicago, one in Lake View, one in Lincoln Park, and one in Wicker Park as of now anyway. For my birthday a friend dragged me around Wicker Park, showing me all of her favorite places that she [...]
Adagio and Blending Teas
Chicago has an Adagio tea shops. The shop is set up with a display at the front and a long wall of teas. There is a shelf that lines the wall with glass jars filled with loose leaf teas for you to try and smell. Below are the bags filled with loose leaf tea or [...]