I have seen
Prasik hill many times from a distance, on my way to my SBP Special School at
CBD but never really ventured that far. Yesterday, my friend suggested we go up
the winding path to admire the view from the top. It’s a beautiful drive up the
narrow snaky lane with a panoramic view of the city below, a beautiful temple,
some interesting villas and now an artistic tea store called You, Me & Cuppa
Tea.
I was utterly
besotted by the entrance itself. Cluster of umbrella, Warli painting on the
walls, large jute curtains, and teacup designs everywhere. The ambience was
good. The mood was set perfectly to relax on wooden tables.
It is a
large place suitable to socialize during ladies tea party, or high-octane social events, or even have small lit-groups and there are smaller cozy rooms with floor furniture for private gathering to write, compose and
bring ideas to life.
Everything
revolves around tea, not the cutting chai, mind you; the Rs5 cuppa chai that
you get at every Mumbai street, Nah! This is a place for tea ceremonies. This
is the place where you can experience a wide range of assorted tea of around
170 varied flavors that are fruity, minty, peach, chocolate, citric etc. and
different types of tea like oolong, blooming, rooibos, herbal infusion, green,
black, mate, etc. of different seasons like winter, fall. It’s a place where
there are different pots for brewing different types of tea, in different
shapes of cups/mugs and different bites of snacks with every sip.
We left the
choice of selecting the tea for us to teaologists, who knew how to brew a
special blended tea for us to have a different experience.
He brought
blooming bud and inserted in the transparent pot containing warm water. It was fascinating to watch
the bud open in the glass teapot and bloom into pretty colored flowers as the bud seeped in.
This is
called artisan or flowering teas. They were hand tied by tea artists and
include some flavor of fruits and jasmine along with a beautiful design.
The saffron
tea was served in tiny glasses that contained almond scrapings. The flavors were very refreshing
We had
cookies and cakes with tea, but on their menu card there were some interesting
sandwiches and pizzas, maybe next time when I am more hungry
“TEA LOVERS SOCIETY” Now that is what makes
this place so interesting! A
community where like minded people and Tea Lovers from different walks of life
share experiences, Art, Culture and Business, this is one of the prime
objectives behind the conceptualization of "You Me & Cuppa Tea".
Rating ; good
Ambience; good
Bathrooms: unclean, needs improvements
Address:
Everest
Housing Society
Parsik Hill,
sector 26,27
CBD,
Belapur.
Navi Mumbai
