Last December, Silver Spurs got rent-hiked out of its 34-year-old home on Broadway and East Ninth Street (prompting some teary letters from children in the process).
Now comes word of a new tenant in the diner's former space — another NYC branch of Teavana, a specialty tea and tea accessory retailer.
There isn't any signage up yet to indication the shop's arrival.
In December 2012, Starbucks bought the Atlanta-based Teavana for $620 million.
The other Silver Spurs location remains open on LaGuardia Place.
Previously on EV Grieve:
After 34 years, Silver Spurs is closing on Broadway
Thanks to EVG reader Eric Bieber for the tip
Because if there's one thing New Yorkers love more than biscuits its tea.
ReplyDeleteI heard thi sis the place where they force-sell you everything you don't really want...
ReplyDeletecome in for $5 worth of tea? leave with a $15 tea cosy and four special $4 tins..
A tea shop doesn't make that much sense because 1) nobody around here drinks tea and B) unlike coffee tea requires no special equipment or know-how to brew. Futilitea.
ReplyDeleteI love really good specialty tea. Only drink that, no coffee. But I would rather go to Silver Spurs and get a cup of crappy Lipton rather than a silvertip flowery broken orange pekoe at Teavana any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteWhy does everything have to be so hyper-niche?
ReplyDeleteI've noticed the tea shops are doing quite well. There are enough people who want something besides booze and want a 'nicer' experience than the cafe.
ReplyDeleteAnon 11:31PM: Because there is a large and growing amount of people who things to be special ALL THE DAMN TIME! It comes from watching too much reality tv.
ReplyDeleteI bought one of those glass ones for some reason. Haven't used or touched the thing in eight years!
ReplyDeleteI'm a brit (and therefore a tea drinker) and not one of these fancy places can make a decent cup of black tea.
ReplyDeleteThey are all farting around with various herbal concoctions made with lukewarm water and a pile of flowers and buds.
I would also rather have Silver Spurs, some decent, cheap diner food and a cup of lipton.
Brit 9:16 makes a good point. "Tea" is the common name for the drink brewed from the leaves of one specific plant--camellia sinensis. But here in America us tards will put any random junk in some hot water and then call it "tea". That's why I have little hope for a "Teavana" or some such venture. Most NYC tards couldn't even tell you the difference between an orange pekoe and a hibiscus-rose hips infusion. "Durrrr, Dunkin Donuts coffee drinks are pretty good!"
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