Went to sip some tea at tahCha Teahouse on Chamblee Tucker last night. I have very mixed feelings about this place. With a wide selection of creative beverages, a super inviting environment with plenty of comfortable seating and colorful art and trinkets for sale around the room, it has great potential. However, I was immediately taken aback by the teahouse’s lack of a menu, “because it changes every day.” Surely not everything changes every day! Instead of a menu, they had little canisters of tea on the counter that customers can look at and smell. Clearly you need all day if you really want to know everything they have, since if one person is already engaged in the process, it’s kind of awkward to join him/her hovered over the tray of canisters. They did have the kinds of teas hung on the wall behind the counter as well, but I have had Lasik twice and I had trouble seeing them.
In addition to a large array of hot/cold teas served by the pot, tahCha also offers some funky drinks like bubble tea, a marteani and the frostea, as indicated by a chalkboard. Unfortunately, you have to ask the servers what such concoctions are, and the available flavors are not listed anywhere. The two women working there also seemed very confused and hesitant about what they offered. Per one of their recommendations, I finally ordered a peach frostea (tea with ice cream). Unfortunately my friend gave up on this process and didn’t bother ordering anything after being at the counter for at least five minutes, maybe more.
I have to admit that despite my lack of confidence, my frostea was quite delicious. It tasted like a less-sickly-sweet version of a milkshake, and you could even taste the tea in it, which was cool. After the ordering rigamarole, I actually found my time at tahCha to be quite pleasant and relaxing as I sat on a comfy couch and sipped my pretty beverage. Even though there was a book club meeting going on right next to us, it remained fairly quiet. I also appreciated the fact that, unlike most places in Atlanta, tahCha had a few overhead fans blowing instead of blasting the AC to the point of freezing me to the bone. Yay!
Besides expecting them to have a menu and a simpler means of ordering, I also thought tahCha would have some sort of Asian flare to it since ‘cha’ means tea in Chinese. Alas, it did not. Despite these points of confusion, though, I will most likely find myself back there someday when I am filled with patience and have a lot of time to kill. In addition to the vast array of teas, tahCha also offers a select amount of sandwiches and pastries that I’d like to sample.
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