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New Northern Liberties Tea Shop

The Random Tea House

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!

The Random Tea House
The Random Tea House
The Random Tea House

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11 Responses to “New Northern Liberties Tea Shop”

  1. Gravatar Audrey Says:

    hey! beautiful pictures mark. I told the owners about your blog today and they looked at it while i was there. they loved it!

  2. Gravatar joshua Says:

    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!

  3. Gravatar darshana Says:

    cool! I’ve been wanting to check this place out since it opened. it looks so adorable from the outside.

  4. Gravatar mariann Says:

    A beautiful and relaxing place to enjoy a cup of tea. The scones are to die for!

  5. Gravatar laradunston Says:

    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?

  6. Gravatar laradunston Says:

    Cool pic of the sugar cubes by the way!

  7. Gravatar Mark Says:

    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.

  8. Gravatar Janelle Says:

    Yum, this place warms my belly just thinking about it. Mark I’d love to post on this - mind if we use your images?

  9. Gravatar Mark Says:

    Go for it, Janelle! :)

  10. Gravatar sara girlscantell Says:

    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?)

  11. Gravatar Marilyn Terell Says:

    Mmmm, that chai looks delicious! Intelligent Travel sends you link love, Poverty Jet Set!
    http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/04/random-tea.html

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