A lovely spot of tea

[ellen_datlow]

A friend and I discovered a lovely place to have tea in the east village: Podunk, which is much nicer than its name. At 2:45 it was empty so I had time to read a few pages of Simmons' The Terror while waiting. I had a pot of lady grey tea and a high tea (it wasn't called that) with cucumber sandwiches (no crusts of course), cookies, scones and jam and cream, plus some cake (I brought home the cake bits and cookies). I gather it was packed a few hours earlier and it started filling up again by the time we left at 4:30. Definitely worth another visit.

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Re: hmmm...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Yup--that's what we had (although only the cucumber sandwich). Thanks for looking it up :-)

actually...

[themadblonde]

I'm a tea nut. That's how I remembered it but I wanted to confirm that my memory was correct (so often it isn't) so off to Wiki I went.

I have a few friends in town who are sales reps for Simple Graces (an at-home tea sales company) & we're going to the only tea "manufacturer" in the Cities for their annual tea tasting this coming weekend. We've got a few tea rooms in town, & a few more coffee shops that also serve an afternoon tea, but I wish there were more.