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| | Tafu | | | “Premium Japanese Tea and Sweets” —restaurant | | Cuisine: Dessert, Tea |
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| | | | | | Tafu: I’ll admit it, the first drink I had at Tafu was the “shiny slim”. How could the name “shiny slim” not appeal to me, a distant hope that by drinking the tea, fats will miraculously fall off my frame, while my hair exudes health and glossiness? Even if that was not the case... Read More | | | | | | From Serious Eats: New York Delicate tea based nibbles and drinks with a Japanese flair are the staples at Tafu in Midtown. Chocolate-miso cakes, matcha lattes, mochi creams with sweet beans, and financiers all please the tongue, but if you are going to choose only one, dive for the nutty... Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | I think I'm dyslexic. On Monday, Zach posted about a mysterious Kati Roll cart; though he wrote 45th St and 2nd Ave, my brain inverted the street to 54th. This actually happens more often than I'll admit to, and is quite a detriment to my budding billing career. That is between me, you, and the int... Read More | | | | | | I think I'm dyslexic. On Monday, Zach posted about a mysterious Kati Roll cart; though he wrote 45th St and 2nd Ave, my brain inverted the street to 54th. This actually happens more often than I'll admit to, and is quite a detriment to my budding billing career. That is between me, you, and the int... Read More | | | | | | This is going to be a love/hate post. I absolutely love the flavor created by this Japanese tea house. I was craving green tea so I went xtown and grabbed a honey maccha latte and a maccha cheesecake for lunch. The flavor of the honey latte is unlike anything I've had before. The bitterness of the m... Read More | | | | | | TAFU 569 Lexington Ave @ 51st St 212-980-1310 $$ Tafu is an artisan tea house from Japan, but it’s hard to tell since it’s located in a Double Tree Hotel in Midtown, hidden with its own side entrance on 51st Street. But they take their teas seriously, monitoring the temperature and using small... Read More | | | | | | Kathy made sure our lunch yesterday was as productive as possible by suggesting a dessert pick-up at Tafu of Japanese tea infused sweets. The tea flavoring causes a change in texture that is a bit odd and I'm not sure we picked the best thing there... we'll have to get more specific suggestions nex... Read More | | | | | | Thali from Khodiar Lunch Services, in the former newsstand on 6th Ave. btw. 37+38th. Photo by Pabo 76 FIKA is opening another location just south of the Midtown Lunch boundaries [Eater] Tafu, on 51st btw. Lex+3rd, is selling Wabi-Sabi cupcakes in honor of their one year anniversary [Blondie and Bro... Read More | | | | | | Last Friday night I quickly stopped by the new tea shop Tafu New York in midtown NYC to sample their exceptional Japanese teas, including the toasty, rich-tasting Shiny Slim, a genmaicha that mixes green tea with roasted brown rice. It was one of the best teas I've ever tried. Then I bolted, with so... Read More | | | |
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