From the vividly hued butterfly pea flower tea at Alameda’s Malaya Tea Room to the blends at Burlingame’s Leland Tea, here’s where to indulge.
If your local tearoom made it through the last two years, raise a cup to perseverance. A bone-china cup, of course.
Here’s a guide to seven of the Bay Area’s lovely sit-down tea service experiences and their stories of pandemic survival. Note that during this transitional period, many tearooms are specifying a minimum order and/or adding the gratuity to the bill. As always, reservations are required for two hours of tea and tranquility.House-made clotted cream. Calamansi-tinged curd. Velvety, pulled black tea.
“People step into our tearoom and feel they are in a different world, a different era,” said Thao Nguyen, who co-owns the Los Altos parlor with Tim Pham. She literally built it, from the bamboo and slate blue-painted walls to the tatami-mat Japanese room that can be reserved for tastings. Roth constructed the community table from a sanded-down slab of redwood. The counter space is the perfect spot to tuck into a flight of oolong or puerh teas and mochi muffins. Look for rare teas, too, likeIn March 2020 — amid the annual tea harvest — Roth closed Blue Willow.
Owner Gabby Agheli, who is also the proprietor of the Bacio Bistro & Bar next door, purchased the business from The English Rose owner in February 2019, with plans to refresh the space, bring on a Parisian chef and reopen the following month. It didn’t work out that way. He set up shop first in San Francisco and then a decade ago moved to the Peninsula, where the tea house and its patio are hidden in the heart of Burlingame. During COVID, that patio provided alfresco seating and his regulars kept ordering from him. However, he still had to close for a big portion of the pandemic.“We would take food and tea orders to deliver to first responders, doctors and nursing homes, at all hours of the day and night,” he said, especially from midnight to 6 a.m.
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