Newsletter: On a busy Inglewood corner, this cafe feels like a secret tea oasis

Restaurant critic Patricia Escárcega stumbles onto a secret tea oasis at Mingles Tea Bar in Inglewood.
Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • September 28, 2019
Recently I spent some time with Lara McAuley of Mingles Tea Bar, a tea and coffee shop that opened about two years ago near the intersection of Crenshaw and Manchester in Inglewood. I stumbled onto Mingles after Googling some combination of “free...
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