Tea

First, my apologies to the good folks at Infuze for inadvertently calling them Matcha in yesterday's post (I need more sleep!).

The Infuze Tea House (604 688-3170, 870 West Cordova Street) is a stylish, hip place to sip tea, eat some sweet and savoury snacks as accompaniments and buy tea for brewing at home.

Above is a photo of the excellent large bowl ($4) of matcha Japanese green tea at Infuze. More tomorrow.

This is ridiculous! It's been over a year since I blogged about Infuze and I still haven't tried it. I spend a lot of time in downtown and Gastown so there is no excuse. Soon!

Tea.ca is a bilingual site on tea (what else!) from the Tea Council of Canada. Now if only they had a blog and an RSS file so I could subscribe to updates. (via the Georgia Straight)

The Infuze Tea House (604 688-3170, 870 West Cordova Street) looks like an awesome place to sip tea, especially Japanese tea. Looking forward to trying it in the near future!

Caterina's tea recommendations are great but I think she overlooked another local tea place, Herbal Republic. I am not a tea drinker (unlike Barb who drinks the stuff like it's going out of style) but I really love the rooibos tea from Herbal Republic.

Rooibos doesn't have caffeine unlike the tea that Caterina recommends but Herbal Republic also has traditional teas with caffeine that I think Caterina would like.

If you like chai, check out The Enthusiast's Online Chai Resource (found on dawn's sparklin weblog).

As follow up to our tea item from yesterday, I found a two week old post from Andrea with a link to the "World of Tea" website published by Stash Tea. It has an tea FAQ, tea recipes and other cool tea-related stuff. thanks Andrea!

The Tearoom on Broadway is a great place to buy and sample tea. Check out my story about it!