I'm in Chicago celebrating the Thanksgiving holidays with my in-lawical family and I've discovered something wonderful.
It's Argo Tea. Think Starbucks, only with tea drinks. And since you can't burn tea like you can burn Starbuck's coffee, the drinks are wonderful. Abby had a hibiscus steamer (hibiscus and apple cider) and I had a chocolate mint tea (tea, cocoa and mint). My drink was fabulous. The kind of fabulous that I always want a coffee drink to be. You know how much better Illy coffee is than Starbucks? These tea drinks are that much better than coffee drinks.
Okay, I'm biased. I love tea, I'm okay with coffee. Mostly I think that the roasted bean is a great system for delivering sugar and milk but teas are varied and complicated. This joint's got teas you can buy in bulk too, and both cold and hot drinks.
Sadly, they exist only in the Chicagoland area. The one I found is in Evanston, where I am right now, but I'm hoping (praying) they expand quickly. The place has the look about it of a company that was designed to go right into the chain-store business—it's very precise and polished in the way that a local tea place isn't.
Okay I'm done with my raving. Please, if you're the Argo guys and you're reading websites that mention your store, come to New York. Please.
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