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
10 comments:
Because if there's one thing New Yorkers love more than biscuits its tea.
I heard thi sis the place where they force-sell you everything you don't really want...
come 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.
I 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.
Why does everything have to be so hyper-niche?
I'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.
Anon 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.
I bought one of those glass ones for some reason. Haven't used or touched the thing in eight years!
I'm a brit (and therefore a tea drinker) and not one of these fancy places can make a decent cup of black tea.
They 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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