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Whether you're planning an exotic holiday, a visit to the English countryside or perhaps a 'stay-cation', the team at bellevue tea invite you to stock up on your favourite varieties before your break and take part in our summer photo competition.
This weekend, the team from bellevue tea can be found taking part in the brand new food & drink market at London's South Bank centre. Organised by the good people of the Real Food Festival, the market will take place from Friday through til Sunday and repeat on the first weekend of every month. There will be 40 producers (including us!) at the market, giving Londoners the chance to buy quality food and drink, at affordable prices, directly from the producers. So, get your shopping basket ready and we'll hope to see you by the Thames this weekend. We will be serving large cups of our iced tea, so if you are in need of a refreshing and thirst quenching drink, you know where to find us.
Serves 4
Ingredients:
3 Bellevue tea Ceylon tea bags
Juice of 2 limes, plus 1 lime, sliced
2 tbsp caster sugar
12-18 ice cubes
Method:
Pour 1 litre boiling water into a heatproof jug with both tea bags and infuse for 3 minutes. Remove and discard the tea bags then leave to cool.
Pour the cooled tea into a serving jug containing the lime juice, lime slices and sugar and stir until the sugar has completely dissolved. Add the ice cubes and serve.
Next weekend (29-30th May), why not pop down to the Venn street market in Clapham with your shopping basket? bellevue tea will be there, along with lots of other wonderful fresh food stalls. On Friday and Saturday it’s a delicious food market, with hot food stalls and on Sunday it’s the flower market too! We hope to see you there.
Polo in the Park takes place 4/5/6th June 2010.
In a similar way to how Twenty20 is introducing a new fan base to cricket, Polo in the Park has adapted the rules of polo and introduced a new format of high-octane polo, with the aim of not only introducing the adrenaline fuelled sport of polo to a new city audience, but also of making the sport faster and more exciting for TV and event spectators.
Not only will there be a tournament of 3-a-side polo teams from across the world, but cheerleaders, medieval knights, food stalls, a luxury shopping village and many other activities and attractions, to keep you fully entertained. For more information about this event, visit: http://www.polointheparklondon.com
bellevue tea will be exhibiting at the Real Food Festival in London's Earl's Court, from Friday 7th til Monday 10th May, along with a huge selection of fantastic small producers and food & drink brands.
If you would like to attend the Festival, we would be glad to see you there and enjoy a cup of tea - the event is open all weekend - tickets are available here!
We invite everyone to enjoy a "tea break" this St George's Day and to celebrate England's national day, we are holding a TEA SALE for two weeks, starting one week before and finishing one week after, Friday the 23rd of April.
Despite his best dragon-slaying efforts, St George's Day is not a Bank Holiday. We cannot give you the day off work, but we can certainly help you to enjoy a traditional, English pursuit; a tea break with a quality cup of tea. St George is popularly associated with England and the English ideals such as gallantry, honour and bravery and in more recent times, he has become the patron saint of soldiers, archers, cavalry and chivalry, farmers and field workers, riders and saddlers and the Boy Scouts too!
For two weeks this April, 5 boxes (one of each variety) will be on SALE for just £8, normal price £10 and 3 boxes (you choose which 3 different varieties) will cost only £5, usually £6. You can take advantage of the offer by purchasing 3 (or more) boxes of tea (Breakfast, sencha green, earl grey, ceylon black and rooibos) and receive a £1 discount, or get the entire range (5 boxes one of each) for just £8 .... thats £2 off!".
We want to encourage people to stop for a St. George’s Day tea break, after all, drinking tea is one of the most famous English activities, a natural pep to ease away any tension or tiredness after all that chivalry and archery!
This month, the team from bellevue tea will be on Stand S185 at the Food & Drink Expo in Birmingham's NEC. We will be serving exhibition visitors a lovely cup of tea, as they make their way around this expansive show. If you are planning to attend the show, or would like to - we invite you to register for FREE entry here: Click Here - we would love to see you at the show - do please come over and say Hello and ask us about our special show offer!
After a few days in Istanbul, I realised that tea is as much of an institution in Turkey as it is in the UK. I had always thought that coffee was the preferred beverage of the Turks, but I now know that when it became very expensive to import after the First World War, tea drinking was encouraged. Hooray! And so it should be!
Tea has been grown in Turkey since the 1940s even though it’s a long way from the tropics, where tea is usually grown, rather surprisingly Turkey ranks 5th in the world’s tea producers. Tea is certainly at the heart of Turkish life and offering tea is considered to be a sign of friendship and hospitality. It is served in small tulip shaped glasses without milk and is usually sweetened with sugar. I quite enjoyed sweetening my tea for a change. It was a welcome injection of energy while sightseeing. Black tea is normally served and apple tea is very popular too.
We saw tea being consumed by everyone from the restaurant tout trying to keep warm on a damp winter’s evening to the shopkeepers in the Grand Bazaar. It is sold out of booths in the walls of Hagia Sophia or off carts pushed around the small streets near Istanbul’s spice bazaar. On a boat trip on the Bosphorus a tea seller was kept busy plying the day trippers on the upper and lower decks with hot tea.
Certainly drinking tea without milk makes it much easier to serve and having fresh, hot tea always available everywhere is one of life's splendid little luxuries in Turkey. I would recommend it to anyone.
the Whoopie pie
The Outsider Tart bakery in Chiswick, which stocks and serves Bellevue tea, is run by two fabulous Americans, dedicated to "putting tasty, wholesome cakes back on the tea-time pedestal where they belong." Their latest incredible baked creation was featured in The Times magazine last month: meet the 'Whoopie' pie. So called because of the seemingly involuntary exclamation made by children, when first they see and taste this cream filled "inside out cupcake"!
We hope you agree, cakes should always be served with a nice cup of tea, so we are very pleased that Bellevue teas are stocked and served in this emporium of baked treats. We highly recommend you visit the Outsider Tart bakery next time you are in town, or you can hit their super-sweet website and order on-line: www.OutsiderTart.co.uk