Teatime at Nigiro in Cape Town

I love tea. I love tea very, very much. My day starts with a cup of tea in bed, and there is not much conversation that I am capable of until I’ve had my morning cup of tea.

Coffee is good, and I do appreciate fine coffee from fine coffee purveyors, but I am definitely a tea girl. Tea makes things better. Tea revives you. (I am SO coveting the Tea Revives You poster from Keep Calm Gallery – that’s the image above.) Tea might make the world go round. Oh, and I also like a G&T. Kind of tea, but not. At all.

Anyways, my fondness of tea means that I have been anticipating Nigiro (the URL might redirect to Origin – tut tut!), the new tea room at Origin Coffee Roasting in De Waterkant in Cape Town, for a while and so was very pleased to be invited along to the launch of Nigiro on Tuesday evening. What a fabulous occasion: Cape Town celebrating my favourite beverage! A beautiful glass box of a tea room has been created in Origin Coffee Roasting’s De Waterkant HQ, and I am very much looking forward to sitting down for a tea ceremony in there.

I got to meet some of the Elle Deco ladies (who were kind enough to compliment on my favourite necklace, which did make me feel less plainjane next to their lovely stylish selves), catch up with a few faces from the Open Everything event, of course congratulate David Donde on such a wonderful evening, meet a bespoke perfumer, drink some Stormhoek tastiness, eat the most heavenly steamed dumplings (best, and first, I’ve ever had) and of course taste some Nigiro tea. Superbly soft vanilla black tea and orange spiced rooibos yumminess. How wonderful.

I left with a beautifully packaged press pack with some teas to try at home (now I just need to get me one of those very nice glass teapots!).