The Tea Room Opens In Newport Beach

Looking around Imen Shan’s tiny, handsomely cluttered Tea Habitat in Alhambra for the first time, happiness rose up through me like daybreak. Shelves brimmed with small clay pots; palm-sized cups and saucers, many of them intricately hand-painted;...

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...

Mingles Tea Bar   

If anyone can dislodge narrow notions about tea — that it’s nothing more than a palliative you drink for a cold, or a beverage steeped from a Lipton bag on a rainy afternoon, or an esoteric or boring subject in general — it’s Henrietta Lovell....

Starbucks will most likely hold its monopolistic hold on coffee retail, but tea seems to remains to be unclaimed. A shop called Lily Chai has opened its first store at the Irvine Spectrum near the theater and it embraces the drink with offerings...

Tea and boba joints open all the time, all over, but not as often in South County. Recently, a new tea and boba joint called Harmony Tea Bar opened in Mission Viejo, which joins just a scant number other boba joints and tea shops in the area....