Beginners to Bigshots featured Jesse Jacobs and Samovar Tea Lounge in the 2004 edition. Here we catch up on what has happened with the business since then. With three locations in San Francisco and a ...

Doha, Qatar – Mohammed Ali, a restaurateur in Qatar’s capital Doha, tells a story about a female customer who would come to his shop every day with a flask to have it filled with karak tea. One day, ...

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A small chain of soothing San Francisco tea and chai “lounges,” Samovar, is spilling the tea on a new special: tea with a side of mindfulness. The tea is free, but the mindfulness costs customers 60 ...

You can buy scones at the new Samovar Tea on Valencia, but there is no chintz and no tea cozies. There’s nothing cozy about the place; in fact, it’s as spare as a Donald Judd sculpture. White shelves ...

The Samovar Tea Lounge, tucked away at the top of the Yerba Buena Gardens, is in an irresistible location. Hidden from both Mission and Howard streets, the glassed-in tea room looks out to the Museum ...

Sometimes it seems if you're not up on the latest, newest restaurant, or are lagging behind while chasing San Francisco's food wordsmiths about what's happening right now, you might miss what's ...

It can be difficult to focus on the food at Samovar, a new Russian and Central Asian restaurant in Rockville. You might get distracted by the belly dancer balancing a sword on her rippling abs or a ...

There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar. Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is another ...