(Fortune Small Business) -- At Samovar Tea Lounge, a chain of three teahouses ... he turned a failed Starbucks into a clean, modern space for business lunches, eliminating the candles, flowers ...

You can buy scones at the new Samovar Tea on Valencia, but there is no chintz and no tea cozies. There’s nothing cozy about the place; in fact, it’s as spare as a Donald Judd sculpture.

In the U.S. and Europe, Mariage Freres, Kusmi, and Samovar Tea Lounge have ... the introduction of a modern, stylish, Western-friendly tea bar would be a true break with tradition.

A tea-maker pours decoction into the milk from a cloth sieve in the final phase of making samovar tea [Photo courtesy: Shiraz Sithara] “The kaftheeriyas experimented with different blends of ...

The newest Samovar Tea Bar outpost offers a concise menu of ... a chic cafe serving modern takes on the powdered green tea. They also brew leaves from In Pursuit of Tea in sleek Hario tea dippers ...

Nina Fefelov outside her Samovar Cafe, as she serves tea to a visitor ... and the youth were getting lured away by modern life.) They decided to go to Alaska — a place that was once the Russian ...

From these shortages came zavarka, a loose-leaf tea concentrate brewed in a small metal container called a samovar ... to the culture's spicy cuisine. A modern innovation on Chinese tradition ...

"When visitors come to the Lake Peipus area, they notice that our tea-drinking tradition is different. While modern life has introduced electric samovars, and coal-heated ones are rarely used at home, ...

We are already 20 percent of the way there. Samovar, an organic and sustainable tea company in San Francisco, recently decided to temporarily close all of its physical locations and will instead move ...

Of course, tea has actually been a part of modern culture for thousands of years ... like San Francisco’s Samovar Tea Lounge, New York City’s Matcha Bar and Sarasota’s TeBella Tea Company.

There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar. Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is ...