Greetings and salutations! Let me tell you about one of my new favorite places in the whole world. Tea Forest! I apologize for the lack of pictures, but I’m lame and keep forgetting my camera and the world needs to know of the awesomeness that is Tea Forest! Also, cute name! Tea Forest!

If you ever find yourself in the Helms Bakery area of Culver City, do yourself and your colleagues a huge favor and stop on by Tea Forest. Not only are the staff some of the nicest people in the history of ever, this place is filled up with some serious yum.

After a long, hard day of animating I usually need a break and head on down for an Iced Green Tea. All of their iced tea selections are super tasty, and they offer some unusual teas such as Earl Grey or Mugicha. I’m ashamed to admit I haven’t tried any of their hot teas yet, cause hey, it’s summertime. But they have an expansive offering of hot teas, with 5 or more varieties each of Green, Black, Oolong, etc. on the menu. They also offer coffee, for those of you who like that sort of thing. Ooh! The Green Tea Frappe is also a thing of beauty, comparable to Coffee Bean’s Green Tea Ice Blended, and I think just a tiny bit better. And don’t overlook the boba milk tea selections. Super yum, and it tastes like they use actual brewed tea instead of the creepy powdered stuff.

As for treats, man do they have some yum sammiches. I’ve been for lunch several times, and the food is always fresh, high quality, tasty, and above all, very reasonably priced. They also offer some baked goods in the form of muffins and cookies and other diet breaking awesomes.

I really suggest this as a nice, calm place to take a break or have a lunch. They don’t mind you hanging out and doing your thing, and like I said, super nice! Beats the pants off Starbucks any day.

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