By Shruthika Pochampally

Staff Writer
@shruthreddy

 Tea2Go, Coppell’s latest new business, is part of a chain of tea cafes that promotes “healthy tea 4 healthy living”, and brings in consumers with attractions such as a laptop bar, free wi-fi and cheap refills.

The Coppell location consists of a unique tea bar where customers can fill their cups with their flavored tea or iced tea and flavored syrups of choice. It also sells loose tea and healthy tea to order from, as well as “Tea2Go” in packages. Customers can bring back Tea2Go cups during their next visit for a discount on their new drink.

First time customers are walked through the tea experience by friendly employees. First, they show you their vast collection of loose leaf tea flavors. Customers can walk past the shelves that take up an entire wall of the store, smelling each flavor of tea until they find one they like.

Then, they can customize. A personal favorite from Tea2Go’s loose leaf teas was the chocolate and cream iced tea with milk. While ordering from the loose leaf teas is considerably more expensive, it is worth the extra $3 for a large cup of good, freshly brewed and customized tea.

If the customer is too overwhelmed by the variety provided by the loose teas, or simply wants to quickly grab a pre-brewed drink before work or school, they are directed to the tea bar. Here, they can fill their cups with one of eight pre-brewed teas of the day, and add flavored syrups or sugar of choice.

Most importantly, Tea2Go boasts of an extremely unique variety of choices to pick from on their menu. Some eccentric and fascinating options include gooseberry pie tea, bengal chai, kenilworth ceylon black tea and banana macaroon fruit tea. It would take months just to try each of these unique flavors, and even longer to be able to identify each one, with very specific and captivating flavors to please lovers of tropical, chocolate, herbal and odd flavors.

The extensive menu is broken down into categories of herbal, green, fruit, oolong, chai, rooibos, weight loss, white and black.

The best part of Tea2Go is that it is the perfect healthy replacement for coffee enthusiasts. A personal caffeine-lover myself, I am slowly but surely falling for Tea2Go’s charm because it is the healthiest alternative to spending hours upon hours at franchise coffee shops where small drinks with large calorie intakes will invariably damage my circadian rhythm and blood pressure levels. Tea on the other hand, is not as detrimental to my health. It is light and easy.

Likes

1. Tea2Go’s vast number of choices is overwhelming yet wonderful. With so many choices, there is a lot of room to linger, explore, smell the great auras of hundreds of teas and really decide what you like best.
2. Moreover, the cafe brags of cheap prices, with a 24 ounce cup of pre-brewed ice tea costing only $1.15, a great deal when you take into consideration that it is fresh brewed and healthy tea.
3. One of the best features of Tea2Go is its work-friendly environment. The cafe is not only a quick stop for a drink, but can also function as a workstation where people can come to do homework, work, group projects and I couldn’t help but thinking that this would have been a good place to have around back in January when I was going through numerous college interviews.
4. Since my first visit, I have gone back to Tea 2 Go thrice. The new cafe is slowly but surely becoming my new favorite hangout spot – one that is convenient, affordable, healthy and fun.

Dislikes

None.

Visit Tea 2 Go’s site for more information: http://www.tea2go.us