Los Angeles’s tea rooms are starting to reopen. The London West Hollywood’s Boxwood restaurant-based service location is among the first few tea rooms to open again here.
Chef Anthony Keene’s menu has eight London’s Rare Tea Company-sourced specialty tea options to pick from. For the uninitiated, it is the UK Royal Family’s go-to tea company. The selection includes mildest to strongest of products, and it starts with a conventional and robust RAF breakfast tea that has smooth malty and soft floral notes. It includes a fragrant Dragon Well tea that comes from China’s Hangzhou city.
The wild, South African rooibos tea is honey-colored, plus it has a berry-like taste and earthy notes. It is a product you rarely get to find on tea room menus. This menu also offers caffeine-free choices, plus mint, chamomile, and lemon verbena.
Its conventional, homemade bread-based sandwich collection includes the following options.
- Salmon smoked with cherrywood and applewood that comes in a brioche
- Cured ham including egg and mustard cress
- Curried chicken containing grapes in walnut bread
Plan cones and warm currant cones are also available here, with clotted cream, fruit jam, and lemon curd. Another offering is a homemade pastry selection that includes the following.
- Battenberg cake containing apricot jam, covered in marzipan
- Coconut and passion fruit meringue
- Raspberry and peach streusel tart
- Black Forest éclair in its mini version
Afternoon tea is available on the weekend for $70 or so. Several people who come here may have that drink with some sparkling wine as well as energizing West Hollywood views.