Sanctuary T Restaurant

To spice up the Autumn season, each week we will be revealing a new, never-been-steeped-before Limited Edition Tea! Each tea is custom blended with all natural ingredients and premium loose leaf tea.

We only have a 35 ounce of each type of tea, so don’t miss out! We thought this would be a great way for tea lovers (including ourselves) to try something new and have something to look forward as the weather turns cold.

Check it out and steep away: http://www.shopsanctuaryt.com/teaoftheweek

Now that October has arrived, you might be wondering what happened to that Tea Recipe Contest we started in September? Well, don’t worry we haven’t forgotten about it!

In fact, we finished collecting submissions on September 30th and we’ve been reviewing all of the delicious tea inspired recipes since. With the large number of recipes submitted we’ve been having a hard time choosing the winner. But after much contemplation we’ve narrowed down the pool to ten recipes.

Even after narrowing down the pool to ten, however, we just couldn’t choose the winner without actually trying each dish and letting our taste buds decide.  So of course, we came up with the only plausible solution: to make the top ten dishes and try them all!

From tea-inspired soups to waffles (like the one above), we’ve been cooking up a storm and filling our tummies with delicious foods. As a result of our tasting phase of the contest, we will be announcing the winner this friday.

We’re very sorry for the delay but we are also super excited to taste everyone’s creations. Stay tuned for more mouth-watering photos as well as the announcement of our official Tea Chef Winner!

Since we first launched the recipe contest at the end of August, we’ve been getting some loving from both cooking and tea sites. So check them out and get inspired!

Even a simple addition of tea to your favorite pasta recipe is viable, so get cooking. You have 22 more days to submit: http://www.shopsanctuaryt.com/recipecontest

Sites Featuring the Contest:

• Food Reference
• Tea Guy Speaks
• Food and Home
• 100 Cafe Street
• Fun Crafts and Recipe
• Sweet Foods
• Contest for Moms

To celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of autumn we are launching our second tea-inspired contest. This time, instead of testing your tea knowledge, we will be challenging your creativiTea to incorporate tea into your cooking!

Starting today until the end of September we will be asking for tea-inspired recipe submissions. The winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to our shop and will be featured on our site. The runner up will win a free bottle of T-Dust Seasoning and a 2oz tin of tea of their choice.

So if you’re a teafanatic and love to cook up a storm in the kitchen, then try submitting a tea-inspired recipe. For details on submissions and rules please click on this link: http://www.shopsanctuaryt.com/recipecontest

It’s time to announce the winner of the first edition of Trivia Friday!

Drum rooooll please…

And the winner is Babelglyph! With only two people answering all of the questions correctly, Babelglyph is taking the prize with quicker posting time than the runner up, Margaret.

Congratulations to Babelglyph for taking first place and we hope that you enjoy our teas with the $50 gift certificate!

For the runner up, Margaret, don’t be too upset because even though you didn’t win this time, if you ace the most trivia editions out of the 4 weeks (or of course you are the first to post all the right answers this Friday), then you have a shot at winning.

Now if you aren’t Babelglyph or Margaret, don’t be blue because you’ll have another shot at the prize this upcoming Friday (July 16). So keep hopes up high.

To prevent everyone’s curiosity from being over-steeped, here are the correct answers according to our sources for our trivia.

Tea Trivia Answers:

1. Camilla Sinensis
   
2. Portugal, by a Princess as a part of her dowry in the 1600’s
   
3. Nestea in 1948
4. The Tannins released in the cool temperature causes the particles to spread
5. Trick question! Both have the same health benefits as long as the leaf quality is good for both teas and they are properly brewed.