Serenitea Tea Room Quarterly Newsletter |
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Selected by Southern Living magazine as one of the Top Ten Tea Rooms in Texas!
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Serving Lunch
and Afternoon Tea
Tel: 281-491-4588
www.SereniteaTeaRoom.com
13889 Southwest Freeway
Sugar Land, TX 77478
Mon - Thurs: 11-4
Fri - Sat: 11-5
Private Events by Appointment
Serenitea will be closed on Saturday, July 4th.
Catering and Take-out orders available.
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Gift Shop
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Visit our Gift Shop for tea pots, tea cups, infusers, tea cozies, books, and many other tea-related gift items.
Serenitea's blend of loose-leaf teas are available for sale in our Tea Emporium.
Custom blend teas to create your very own personal blend.
Gift Certificates are available for your convenience.
Tea and Gift Shop
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Dates to Remember
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June 14 - Flag Day
June 21 - Father's Day / First Day of Summer
July 4 - Independence Day
August 2 - Friendship Day
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Stay Informed!
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Tea in Texas
Published bi-monthly and packed with information on tea and related topics. Also includes a guide to locating tea rooms in the local area, as well as a calendar of upcoming events.
Pick up a copy at the tea room or for subscription information, visit www.TeaInTexas.com
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The Tea House Times
A
bi-monthly publication celebrating a passion for tea, victorian
treasures, and friendship. Limited copies available at the tea room.
For subscription information, visit www.TheTeaHouseTimes.com
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Serenitea Makes the List!!
Houston's 101 - a guide to some of the best experiences in the Houston area - selects Serenitea Tea Room as one of the "restaurants you gotta try!" For a complete list of experiences, visit 101Houston.com.
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Menu Changes |
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We will be introducing three new menu items beginning in July. We hope you enjoy them!
Lunch Menu
Imperial Egg Salad will be offered as part of our Salad Scoops selection as well as on our Sandwich Selection.
We will also offer our Southern Belle Pimento Cheese as part of our Sandwich Selection.
Tea Services
We will substitute our pimento cheese spread with our Imperial Egg Salad as one of the finger sandwich selections.
Dessert Menu
We will offer our home-made cream cheese pound cake served warm with vanilla ice cream on the side topped with raspberry sauce - a perfect balance!
For all of our selections, please visit Our Menu.
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Showers and Tea Parties
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Serenitea
Tea Room is an ideal location for bridal showers and baby showers. You
can choose to have your event during our business hours or reserve the
tea room for a private event after hours or on a Sunday.
Enjoy
the relaxed and elegant setting of the tea room with classical music
and cozy ambiance. For your menu selection, choose between the elegant
tea service on three-tiered gold trays laden with delicate finger
sandwiches, scones, and dessert or select items from our lunch
menu. Savor the full flavor of fine loose leaf tea served in beautiful
china tea cups alongside a tea pot wrapped in a tea cozy. For menu selections, visit Our Menu.
Invitations - Serenitea
offers Tea Cup Card invitations for your special occassion. These will
truly set the tone for your tea party. Each invitation contains a tea
bag for its recipient to enjoy. All invitations are fill-in-the-blank
style. For more details, visit Planning a Party.
Custom Party Favors -
Serenitea can help you create unique and personalized party favors for
your bridal and baby showers. Choose from select flavors to make
a Custom Blend Tea to reflect the special occassion and personalize it
with a fun and memorable name. "Steeped in Love" - a romantic name for a bridal shower tea or "Love is Brewing"
- a fun name for baby shower favors. Archana Pyatt, the owner of
Serenitea Tea Room, will personally blend the tea once you have
selected your flavor combinations. Serenitea will also provide the
personalized labels for the custom blend tea. For more details, visit Planning a Party.
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Club and Business Meetings
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Serenitea
is available for private group meetings pre- and post-business hours.
For groups looking for a quaint and serene atmosphere, Serenitea is an
ideal location for weekly/monthy/quarterly meetings. Our prix fixe
menu offers the tea room favorite items and is inclusive of food,
drinks, tax, and gratuity. Prix Fixe Menu.
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Just out of Curiosi-tea!
What is the
proper way to eat finger sandwiches?
No confusion here as to which fork to use - as
the name implies, finger sandwiches are finger foods. When preparing finger sandwiches, make sure they
are creative in flavors and design but small enough to be no more than 2-3
bites.
Does tea
really taste better from a china teacup?
This has been tested by many (although I
cannot back it up with any real research!), and I really do not believe that
this is just another old wives' tale. However,
resoundingly, YES! tea really does taste better when sipped from a thin
delicate fine bone china teacup. Perhaps
it has something to do with the quality of the china, or the thinness of the
rim, or even the value of the teacup itself!
Whatever the reason, try it and see what a difference bone china makes!
What does it mean when a tea is labeled
"single estate" tea?
Unlike blended
teas, which may consist of a variety of teas from different estates, regions
and countries, single estate teas come
from only one particular estate and are never blended with any other teas. Since single estate teas are usually from a highly
regarded estate with a reputation for exceptional quality, tea rooms or tea
shops carrying these teas will be proud to name the particular estate. Similar
to wine, single estate teas will vary
slightly in character from year to year, depending on the rainfall and climate
conditions for that particular year. There
are many tea drinkers who become great followers of a particular estate and
will go to great lengths to seek out that incomparable tea!
What does the tea plant look like?
The tea plant (camellia sinensis) is an evergreen, producing flowers with delicate
white petals. It flourishes in a jungle-like environment with plenty of
rainfall, heat and humidity. With proper
care and cultivation, it can produce tea for 70-100 years. If left in the wild,
the tea plant can grow up to 60 feet tall; however, it is kept at the height of
3-4 feet by constant pruning. This
process encourages the growth of new young shoots and also makes it easier for
the tea pickers to pluck the top two leaves and bud which produce the finest of
teas. Leaves lower on the tea plant are
also plucked, producing a larger quantity but lower quality of tea. It takes about 80 pounds of green tea leaves
to produce about 20 pounds of black tea.
Can I buy
tea directly from a tea plantation?
I wish!!
Unfortunately, tea is sold in bulk at auctions, usually in the local
country that produces the tea. These
auctions have not changed much over the past 100 years. Initially, the teas brought in from the various
tea plantations are tested for taste and appearance by professional tea tasters. They are then graded for their appearance and
quality. All of these teas are listed in
a catalogue, each with a brief description.
The auctioneer goes through the catalogue of teas as the buyers bid on
the individual teas.
What is
"pouchong" tea?
Pouchong teas fall under the Oolong tea
category. They are less oxidized form of
oolong teas and are mainly from China and Taiwan (formerly Formosa). Traditionally scented with jasmine flowers,
it yields a very delicate brew in appearance and taste. Another wonderful combination with pouchong tea
are roses - a beautiful scented tea that is, unfortunately, a bit more
difficult to find in the US still.
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