T is for To The Tea

I love finding delicious places and yesterday I got one more. I don’t know if this has anything to do with getting older but I’m acquiring all sorts of peculiar habits. Over the last year or two I have developed a fondness for tea. I love going out for tea and particularly enjoy herbal teas with  my top favourite brand being Mighty Leaf. Hu hu hu, Chamomile Citrus...Yummy

I often wondered why this ritual resonates with me so much until I got an epiphany during one of those rare moments of self-reflection. It takes me back to my safest time during childhood. When my gran who raised me for the first decade of my life was alive. I was assigned the duty of making her morning and evening tea.  My gran was such a vibrant figure, full of life, as strong as any goddess you could come across, fabulous material for a Ms Independent if the times had allowed and yet ......secretly and severely abused by the fathers of her children, first my grandfather who later abandoned her with three kids and then my step granddad who took her as a second wife. She was gone to soon, succumbing to cervical cancer, till this day I believe it was the silence that killed her, that alone is cancerous.  After her death life went to the dogs until I claimed it back with my coming of age.

Cnr Bond Street & Main Ave

Ferndale, Randburg

Tel: 011 326 1526 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            011 326 1526      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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How did I come to be writing about tea today? Well yesterday on my way home I passed a shop that’s a couple of blocks from my house. Quite a nondescript looking place I think but in their branding they have the words Designer Cakes and Coffee Shop. So I was curious. I didn’t dwell on the coffee bit but I had pictures of cake, tea and a moment of solitude before the madness of my house when I went in. I’m so glad I stopped because I had the most divine vanilla tea there is with a chicken wrap for lunch. I never got to the cakes because that tea is so decadent, even without sugar it felt like I’d already had desert. Even better is that it is über affordable. Everything on the menu is well under R50 (roughly $7.50). My bill plus a box of the most decadent cookies you have ever laid you palate on came to a mere R149 ($22). 

This is teashop that I will definitely visit again and again.

If you happen to be in Johannesburg take a moment to come Annica's in Randburg. Directions HERE. If you a lover of fabuliciousness then Annica's is well worth your while.