Right now in the silent struggle to be cool, tea is kicking coffee’s ass all over the place. You might expect Miami, with all its Caribbean and Latin American influences, to be a stronghold for the energising bean, but even here tea is calmly making its mark with places like Small Tea.Small Tea’s Venezuelan owner Daniel Benoudiz believes Miami is ready to embrace the leaf, and his new Coral Gables tea house encourages an exploration of the different aromas, tastes and textures of tea while providing expert help for novices. These vessels take over 100 steps to make, and their lustre contributes greatly to OSMOSE‘s warm interior scheme — it’s the kind of place I’d imagine Auric Goldfinger calling in for a cuppa.
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