"Linger over your tea" at this "quick", "casual" chain-coffee-shop "alternative" serving "wonderful" leafy brews alongside "tasty" "Eastern-flavored" bento boxes and sandwiches plus salty oat cookies that "can improve any dreary day"; "inexpensive" tabs and "tasteful" "Zen" decor contribute to the sense of "serenity", which you can even take home (they have "nice tea-related gifts").
Teaism Restaurant Review:
Teaism is not just about drinking tea (although there are plenty of varieties); the restaurant group also offers fruit juices, beer, wine, saké and assorted lunch and dinner edibles. You’ll find a mostly Asian menu that includes soups (including the Japanese tea soup, ochazuke), sandwiches, bento boxes (Japanese small meals in pretty boxes), hearty entrées (including Thai chicken curry) and...
Occupying a turn-of-the-20th-century neoclassical building on a tree-lined street, Teaism has a lovely rustic interior. A display kitchen and tandoor oven dominate the sunny downstairs room, which offers counter seating along a wall of French windows that open in warm weather. Upstairs seating is on banquettes and small Asian stools at handcrafted mahogany tables. The restaurant also sells...
Citysearch Editorial Review:
This casual Asian-inspired teahouse and restaurant serves up breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner daily (the cilantro scrambled eggs and bento boxes are especially popular) and also sells loose-leaf...