American Tea Room

Wow. This is the most authentic pastry tasting tea I’ve ever had! It is buttery, a little nutty, and very “bakery” flavored! I am drinking it unsweetened but I imagine it would be out of this world with a little honey! Thank you SO MUCH for the sample of this one BrewTEAlly Sweet!!!

My only other experience previously with a chocolate tea was Cocoa Canula from David’s Tea which, no matter how long I steeped or how much sugar I added, still tasted like very very watered down chocolate.

Choco*Late’s dark chocolate flavor came right through and reminded me very much of a less creamy Mexican Hot Chocolate. I imagine this would actually be great in a latte form. It’s still not quite the same as hot chocolate but close enough that I’m enjoying this. It’s subtly bitter-sweet, and pleasant in its own way. I kind of wish for some almond flavoring too, though.

Whenever I feel a good happy restful weekend coming on, I make a pot of this. You know, just to spoil myself even more. :-)

LOVE LOVE LOVE
It reminds me of eating a white peach.
LOVE LOVE LOVE
My new favorite, excellent iced and hot. So refreshing and light!

Making a note of this quick before Steepster dies again (was down all morning for me), may edit later. Drank to wake me up for meeting with friends for lunch. Stayed up late watching Sherlock.

For all you Brioche lovers out there (and there seems to be a lot) we have some great news – American Tea Room will be introducing very soon a Caffeine Free version of our super popular Brioche!!!! Be on the look out – this is the perfect tea for any time of day – especially right before bedtime.

I had such an amazing day today, I spoiled myself since my boyfriend was out of town for work. An antique show was in town and I went and came home with a few goodies!
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(A teapot, teacup, tea tins, honey, beautiful cards, and a flannel all for $50)
Anyways when I came home I was craving this tea! Especially since I just got a new order of this in the mail this morning, and a HUGE bag of it since I ordered it on the day you got 20% more tea. I also wanted Rose Violet Calendula Oolong that Stephanie sent me, so I decided to cold steep that for tomorrow:)
And also I wanted an excuse to use my new teacup:
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This tea was lovely as always. Smelled like a bakery in my kitchen when it was steeping.
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Check out my adventure today at Remnants of the Past:
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I have not really been on here all week. I am working 15 hours days and have been so exhausted. I have a lot of backlogging to do now.

Anyways, I got this in the mail yesterday and I now understand what all the ranting and raving was about! I am in love with this tea. This is definitely a staple in my cupboard. Like a LBD, but just the “little perfect tea.” You can almost taste the flakiness of the brioche. The butter, the almonds, just truly decadent. You have this anytime of the day any time of the year. Thank you steepsters for talking this tea up. I have found a soulmate. There is nothing at all wrong with this tea. THE PERFECT TEA. Seeing as I am a baker, I find this tea to be a great addition to my life. Enjoying the carbs without actually having to intake them! ha ha

Drinking a big ol’ mug of this before I meet up with a friend for lunch downtown and a tour of the Victorian Village because I’m working with less than 6 hours sleep (that’s standard for lots of friends of mine, but I’m an “8 hours or catatonic” type myself…must be all those academic nerd years as a teen only getting 1 or 2 every night, broke my body somehow ugh). Like everything I’ve tried from ATR, smells great.

4/5, and probably going to be a go-to for when you want to feel like you’re really drinking TEA and not just dessert-y tisanes at night, similar to H&S Vanilla Comoro (where it doesn’t hold a candle to real tea but is the best substitute option I’ve found for that taste). In this case I suspect it’s not an uncanny nearly-like-black-tea-leaf magic so much as a mental association thing, where the Earl Grey profile is very spot on and smooth, enough to trick you into just having the whole EG sense memory thing fill in the blanks with the actual tea flavor. Neat.

I was thinking this was nothing to write home about albeit a totally drinkable if pale substitute to the real thing for after 9pm cravings, thennn I filled my second cup with Upton’s and let’s just say that made me appreciate the heck out of this one. You could clearly do a lot worse, ha.

EDIT: Thennn about an hour later I was craving it all over again so I made enough to fill my 3 cup corningware makeshift matcha bowl, ha! This time I added milk, which worked really well (it doesn’t need it, but it also is great with it; it doesn’t turn into cloudy sad dishwater but stays smooth and silky and opaque, creamy in look, texture, and taste, yum). Yeah, I think I’ll be making this a regular rotation thing for when I want something that tastes of tea but without too many distracting dessert-y bells and whistles late before bed.

Intensely chocolatey, not sugary sweet candy bar; it’s taken me a while to figure out pu erh is go-to for that sort of thing. Very nutty too, almost savory. Super rich. That little bit of peppery spice at the end is great. I like. Part of me wants to do a side-by-side test with H&S Florence as I’m curious if I’d like this better now that I’ve grown a bit in my tea exposure. Hmm.

Extremely girly/elderly-ladies-who-lunch take on EG. Name is fitting. At first I blanched at the smell of the dry leaves—rose perfume, whoa—but there’s a fresher, less musty floral scent in the cup. The creaminess of the vanilla keeps the perfume burn in check and rounds things out nicely. Definitely not a regular thing for me (I’m pretty durn ungirly most of the time) but kind of cool for novelty.

4/5 and while not absolutely perfect, the truth is that yes, as long as I still have room at all for flavored dessert teas in my life this’ll have a place among them

So I say all that about getting more mature and needing less hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-hammer sweet flavoring in tea, then I decide after dinner I really want a cup of this, my needs-to-be-sipped-down green tea stash be damned. Ha. Ah well. Must be all the talk of Haagen Dasz and dessert in general I went into with friends on FB. Anyway, it’s worth it—this is just what I wanted. The smell is fantastic, not just sweet but truly buttery and sweet-yeasty, indeed like stepping behind the case in a toasty, glorious patisserie. Like most dessert-y ATRs the flavor doesn’t quite live up to the aroma (what could though really…egads) but it’s still very enjoyable. This one doesn’t hold up too great to milk but it can take a pinch of sugar. Yum. I love that you can almost smell the sweet sticky filling inside bakery rolls here too, all those warm spices and gooey coated toasted nuts. Yum!

4/5, with Butiki’s Hangzhou Dragon Well a bit higher

Longjingathon! Pitting this one against Butiki’s tonight. Truth is they’re both delicious. This one’s a darker, slightly peachy hue but that’s to be expected considering the brewing instructions were 3 minutes as opposed to Butiki’s 2 minutes 30 seconds. The Butiki’s silkier and smoother, but they’re both very smooth and wonderful. This one’s roastier and tastes more like cooked food, more vegetal (lots of sweet pea and general green-pod-veggie sugar); Butiki’s is sweeter, creamier, and more delicate. There’s more going on upfront, more busy initial whammy with ATR while Butiki’s is slower to develop, more subtly complex, and in the end more haunting. I think I like Butiki’s a touch more (and I’m not surprised by that either) but I certainly wouldn’t be bummed if this was my only option. Think I’ll cold steep the leaves after maybe 1 more hot steep (if I kept hot resteeping tonight I’d never get to sleep, alas) and see how they compare that way too, in terms of cold steeping and staying power.

probably my favorite tea ever. best with vanilla creamer or half and half

fantastic red/black tea. mellow woody taste. not overly minty at all. highly recommend. light caffiene

4/5

Fruity but in a true-fruit, refreshing, non-cloying way. Also, visually stunning in terms of the fruit pieces, and the tea leaves aren’t bad either. I dig.

Bet this would be really good cold steeped provided you timed it right, yum.

I’m not completely sure who sent this to me but thank you! I decided to get back to working on some of my samples from swaps. They’ve been sitting around for a while.
This one is beautiful. It’s very soft and delicate. The first thing I can taste is the rose which turns into lavender and ends in a minty sweetness. I can tell that there is jasmine in this blend but it kind of blends in between the lavender and rose. The white tea is behind the floral flavors but I think it lends a soft peachy-like sweetness to it. Very soothing.

Finishing off my sample from moraiwe. Thanks! I received this 8 months ago and it is a little worse for age. Still, this is a lovely breakfast tea. See prior notes for details.

There’s a kid coughing uncontrollably right behind me. .. Tea has antiviral properties, right?