Ridgewood NJ, this is a first in a new series of articles for the Ridgewood blog promoting our local merchants and restaurants.
It seems the Village Tea Shop out did themselves taking care of a resident.
“A HUGE thank you to my friend May from the Village Tea Shop in Ridgewood. She just rang my doorbell and completely surprised me with a hot cup of wellness tea with ginger honey because she heard from my friend Geary that I am down and out with a crummy virus. I am not at the tea shop (as the posting indicates) but I am sipping the delicious tea in my easy chair and envisioning myself there right now. Maybe in a few days . . . Thank you May! And for my Facebook friends that are local, you need to get to the tea shop and try their amazing products. Good for the body and soul!”
The Village Tea Shop is a small cozy shop serving a large selection of organic and fair trade teas from around the world. Crafted tea drinks, smoothies, bubble tea, and yes coffee.
10 S Maple Ave
Ridgewood, New Jersey
@VillageTeaShop
Call (201) 857-0230
if you have a situation where you felt a merchant or restaurant went above and beyond email us at onlyonesmallvoice@gmail.com
the staff of the Ridgewood blog with a little help from our friends
Ridgewood NJ, After a brief absence the Village Tea Shop opened at their new location on Friday morning, 2-4 South Maple Avenue, just two doors down from where they were. The new space is wonderful and the teas and coffees are the best you will find anywhere. Hot and cold teas and coffees, as well as delicious bubble teas. Definitely stop by, you will find yourself going back again, and again, and again!
Ridgewood NJ, Whether getting one to go or lingering over a second cup, on September 29 be sure to observe National Coffee Day! Ah, the perfect cup of java. According to an expert cupper (a professional coffee taster), there are four components of a perfect cup: aroma, body, acidity, and flavor.
From the moment the average coffee lover opens a fresh bag of coffee beans, the aroma beckons, percolating the senses. Even those who don’t drink coffee tend to enjoy the fragrance a roasted bean casts.
When determining the body of a coffee, the bean, the roast, and the brew are all factors. The bean affects the texture of the coffee, whether its silky, creamy, thick or thin on the tongue and throat. However, the darker the roast and how it is brewed will alter the feel of a coffee’s body, too. Grandpa’s motor oil blend versus the coffee shop around the corner’s silky smooth, well-practiced grind have entirely different bodies.
The region a coffee is grown determines its acidity. The higher the elevation the coffee grows, the higher the quality and the acidity. These coffees are considered brighter, dryer, even sparkling by cuppers.
When it comes down to it, coffee lovers cherish the flavor as well as the caffeinated boost this roasted bean gives morning or night, black or with cream and sugar. Hot or cold it provides enjoyment even when decaffeinated!
There are many legendary accounts of how coffee first came to be, but the earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or the knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century in the Sufi monasteries around Mokha in Yemen. It was here coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed, much like they are prepared today. Yemeni traders brought coffee back to their homeland from Ethiopia and began to cultivate the seed.
In 1670, coffee seeds were smuggled out of the Middle East by Baba Budan, as he strapped seven coffee seeds onto his chest. The first plants grown from these smuggled seeds were planted in Mysore. It was then that coffee spread to Italy, to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia and the Americas.
Brazil produces more coffee in the world than any other country followed by Colombia. More than 50 countries around the world grow coffee, providing a delicious variety for the indulgence of steamy cups of the black drink for connoisseurs to consume.
According to yelp :
1. American Bulldog Coffee Roasters 31 N Broad St Ridgewood, NJ 07450Phone number(201) 857-4176
2. Ridgewood Coffee Company 90 E Ridgewood Ave Ridgewood, NJ 07450Phone number(201) 493-1002
3. Grandma’s Secret 9 S Broad St Ridgewood, NJ 07450Phone number(201) 857-8788
4. Village Tea Shop 10 S Maple Ave Ridgewood, NJ 07450Phone number(201) 857-0230
5. Sook Pastry 24 S Broad St Ridgewood, NJ 07450Phone number(201) 493-2500
6. Bagelicious 19 N Broad St Ridgewood, NJ 07450Phone number(201) 652-9421
