Tea bloggin'

Whenever I come to New York, I do try to find new places to drink coffee and eat bagels, two of my favorite Brooklyn activities, but I always seem to end up back at the Tea Lounge.  There are several reasons for this:

1. Plenty of outlets.  One of the worst trends of recent years is coffee shops that purposely don't provide electrical outlets.  I understand that this is to keep turnover high, but it's still annoying.  I will gladly pay a dollar more for coffee if I sit in your shop for four hours, plugged in.  I will probably also buy lunch.  I was in a different coffee shop this morning where they also had "no-laptop" zones.  I'm sorry, but why do you think people come to coffee shops??

2. Comfy couches.  Never underestimate the power of a comfy couch to lure me into a coffee shop.  On a particularly sleepy day, I might buy a tea just so that I can pretend to read and discreetly nap on your comfy couch.

3. Excellent location.  Very close proximity to a park (also for reading/napping in, if I feel too conspicuous on the comfy couch), to a taqueria, and to a subway station, three basic needs of the New York lifestyle.

4. Morroccan mint iced green tea.  Just a little spicy.


So, there's a little insight into what makes me tick.  I like electricity, napping and spicy tea.  That's about right.