New Northern Liberties Tea Shop
The other afternoon, Audrey and I went over to this new indie tea cafe around the corner from our house called “The Random Tea Room” at 4th and Brown. We drank a pot of, hands down, the best chai I have ever had (save the first time I ever had chai - homemade goodness in Northern Thailand - but that’s a long story for another post). They’ve got a big, warm pot brewing all the time, full of some intense spice love. If you’re a fan of the creamy darkness, best high tail it over there soon!
March 5th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
hey! beautiful pictures mark. I told the owners about your blog today and they looked at it while i was there. they loved it!
March 6th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
i think i just read about them in the Fishtown Star…or maybe the Spirit. I forget. looks cool. glad they sent back the link love!
March 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
cool! I’ve been wanting to check this place out since it opened. it looks so adorable from the outside.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
A beautiful and relaxing place to enjoy a cup of tea. The scones are to die for!
March 19th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
This place looks very cool indeed. I’ve been travelling a lot recently - Dubai, Cyprus, Crete, Turkey - and in each country they do tea and coffee so differently… I’ve been thinking about how cool it would be to have a tea room-cum-coffee shop focused on serving up teas and coffees from around the world, nothing fancy, don’t need no tea or coffee sommelier or anything, just focused on serving tea/coffee the way they do locally, everywhere from India to Morocco, Argentina to Turkey, you name it… none of that starbucks crap… what do you think?
March 19th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Cool pic of the sugar cubes by the way!
March 19th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Thanks, Lara! Yeah, that’s an awesome idea. Instead of americanizing the daily coffee/tea ritual, bring it back to the traditional ways of imbibing. Would be very cool indeed.
Actually, there’s a very cool tea house in Chinatown in Philly that serves tea in a very traditional Chinese way. They *might* have closed, but it’s on 9th and Arch, I believe. I’ll post about it if I find the name again.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Yum, this place warms my belly just thinking about it. Mark I’d love to post on this - mind if we use your images?
March 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Go for it, Janelle!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
i could be wrong, but i think it’s the same people who have the amazing teahouse on the downtown mall in charlottesville? either way, super awesome.
(maybe i just subconsciously miss charlottesville?)
April 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Mmmm, that chai looks delicious! Intelligent Travel sends you link love, Poverty Jet Set!
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/04/random-tea.html