Posts Tagged ‘Tea’
Paper & Tea
Aarti Mehta-Kroll rediscovers an old tradition at one of Berlin's finest, conceptual tea houses… P & T I grew up in India drinking chai: milk, water, black tea leaves, sugar and masala heated till the mixture turned the right shade of brown. Every afternoon, my mum would lay this out along with salty snacks. When we were home, my dad and I would also engage in this tea ceremony, stopping whatever we were doing, taking a few moments to relax and chat over this hot beverage. When [...]
Tee Salon
Grashina Gabelmann grabs a cuppa in Mitte's charming Tee Salon... I love tea. In fact, I'm sipping on my third cup of Jasmine as I write this. Not only is tea a great excuse for procrastination (“I'll get back to writing just as soon as I make another cuppa”) but the ritual of preparing and drinking it is relaxing and quite often I'll even find an idea or inspiration after gazing wistfully into the bottom of my tea cup. Kristine Mager, the owner of Mitte's Tee Import, understands [...]
The Way Of Tea
Marian Ryan visits Runge & Graf and explains why tea could - or should - be the new coffee... Beat icon Jack Kerouac once described the memory-soaked Proust as “an old teahead of time”—given the seminal role of a pot of tea and some bits of madeleine in the opening of Swann’s Way—and encouraged aspiring writers to be the same. Though the hard-drinking Beat may have been speaking in metaphor, the link between tea and creative inspiration is an article of faith for Berlin tea [...]
Slow-style Xmas Gifts…
Berlin Reified's Sylee Gore shares some of her Slow-style gift ideas for those both near & far... December now, and the scramble of Christmas begins in earnest. What you want isn't stress but pleasure. Choose the right shops, and shopping for presents is a gift in itself. You, like me, might divide your list between those near and far. For parcels abroad, I favor linens, knits and teas. Everyone who loves bread will get a Manufactum bread bag in herringbone linen to keep their [...]
Chén Chè
A charming and authentic Vietnamese tea room in the heart of Mitte... Despite being tucked away down a courtyard in Mitte, it’s not particularly difficult to find Chén Chè: the pair of tall bamboo plants that stand incongruously on Rosenthaler Strasse and the large blackboard featuring exotic Vietnamese dishes kind of give it away. Photo: Binh Truong Duck into the courtyard and Berlin’s newest Vietnamese tea room lies directly ahead. The capacious main room, all dark wooden [...]
