"Tea House Review: Lucy's Tea House (Mountain View, CA)": 05/08/2001

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05/08/2001 Entry: "Tea House Review: Lucy's Tea House (Mountain View, CA)"

The girl and I had lunch at Lucy's Tea House today. It was reasonably tasty. They serve a meat and a vegetarian option every day, either as a sandwich or as a plate with rice and vegetable and salad and hard boiled egg. We both got the vegetarian plate, which has tofu. It was OK, it reminded me of the chinese food flavors I don't really like, especially things that are a bit too salty. But it was all well-prepared, and with the rice things were fine. After the food you get jasmine ice cream, which was very tasty. Mmmm.

But the tea was most excellent. I had "Molly's Honey", a jasmine tea with honey, served hot. I enjoy tea, but am not a huge tea fan, but this was really good. It was even served at a more reasonable temperature, so I was able to drink it without too much waiting. The girl got the "Sweet Memory", which was orange juice with tea, served cold (you can choose if you want the tea served hot or cold). It was very refreshing, but not overpoweringly flavorful. I thought it was nice, but not as good as my choice.

The service is fairly slow, since it consists mostly of a single older woman taking orders and bringing out food, but it creates a friendly, relaxed atmosphere, of which there is not enough in this area. The menus are really neat little books with a page devoted to explaining each tea.

I look forward to trying out more of the tea selections in the future.