Of course, the article calls them tea bars.
That’s The Guardian of late on how tea’s so popular and of late so young & hip in the UK, yet the proper tea bars so far haven’t taken off like one might expect.
Hypotheses are presented; opinions mulled; tea drank. Along the way, you’ll find a clutch of links to the finests teabars in England, so if you’re living there or just passing through, drop in for a moment or two and have a pu-erh or an English breakfast.
And I might add, my thought the teabar’s that it should likely tilt to the Asian/cosmopolitan side rather than the fusty. We’ve got no end of big-hat tealands here in the southern US of A, and I imagine one can get a proper high tea whenever one pleases in Jolly Olde.
Look at that! It's a veritable advert for drinking tea in the most urbanistic manner possible. Makes me want to purchase High Street clothes and get all flaneur on your tea
Yet! Yet~ this omits the full range of teas from east Asia– the Taiwanese oolongs, the complex blacks of China, Japanese greens. I always feel like a boor ordering sencha at a big-hat tea shop[pe], Heaven only knows you need a globalized chic shop for such a thing.
For illustration, I include this screenshot of Leaf Tea Shop on Parliament Street in Liverpool. Makes me want to update the old graphique dessin! I mean, just look at it. All chic and cosmo, what with its glass mugs of tea steeping floral leaves.
I prefer a good pu-erh, but still.
