(http://www.419cv.com/)
one of my favorite places... the garden has more than 8 little enclosed places to sit and hang out/relax/ study...
Veronese: Cafe/ Gallery/ Garden
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Tea, Korea-style, at 419 Cafe Veronese
From the outside, Cafe Veronese looks more like a home than a business. It occupies a historic two-story house a couple of blocks from downtown Fullerton’s strip of bars and clubs. The inside is sparse?a counter where you order and a couple of tables in what was once the living room. But in the back yard, 419 Cafe Veronese offers a mystical, soothing experience straight out of The Secret Garden,but without the cripple...
But Veronese’s specialty is its Korean teas, 11 of the most fragrant, delicious beverages you’ll ever taste. They are steaming art. Each costs about $5? A bit expensive, but they are served in massive clay steins and redolent of flavors you’ll want to try again and again. The nice gals at the counter will steer you to the lemony yooja, the flavor most familiar to the American palate. But most of the teas use such Asian fruits as maesil, a red grape-tasting thing better known stateside (if known at all) as the Asian plum. Sukryu is a burgundy-tinted tea made from pomegranate seeds and flowers, divinely intense in the nose and on the tongue, and featuring a fistful of juicy pomegranate seeds at the bottom. The murky, lime-green mogwa tea is prepared with Chinese quince and is reminiscent of a light honey. Deachu tea, made from Chinese dates, is filling and gently sweet. You’ll encounter pine nuts floating atop most of the teas, each an earthy counterpoint to the tea’s sweetness. GUSTAVO ARELLANO
sooo glad you posted this! Though those Koreans are rude sometimes, this cafe is the JAM! :)
ReplyDeleteThis was were Josh and I had our first date <3