As winter approaches we ditch conscious eating and consume larger quantities of comfort food and warm calorific drinks. Camellia’s Tea House recommends drinking warm winter teas throughout the day.
Hosting a Halloween or Bonfire night party? Treat your guests to a fantastic Autumn Tea Infused Cocktail! The warming spices in Rooibos Chai Tea and the wonderful flavour of fresh apple combine beautifully with Vodka to create this tasty and aromatic Cocktail - Apple Chai Martini
In this October, our tea recommendations are wellness teas designed by Camellia's Tea House using homoeopathic and herbal medicine principles. Not only help keep your body hydrated and make you feel better, the benefit of drinking wellness tea to warm you up on a cold day.
MARIGOLD & HEALTH BENEFITS Supports skin healing. Contains natural antiseptic/anti-inflammatory properties. Comprises pre-cursors to the production of antioxidant Vitamin A. Reduces eye infections and protects from UV and oxidative damage. Helps to soothe the mucus membranes of the throat whilst easing the pain. MARIGOLD & THE ART OF TEA Marigold has long been recognised as a medicinal flower, which has been used to address cuts, soars and general skin care. Marigold flowers contain essential oils and a high concentration of flavonoids (secondary plant substances), such as carotene. They act [...]
What is Afternoon Tea? Afternoon Tea has long been known as a tea-related ritual founded in Britain since the early 1840s, which evolved as a mini meal to stem the hunger and anticipation of an evening meal at 8 pm. Afternoon Tea is always served with some finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and jam, sweet pastries and cakes. Interestingly, scones were not a common feature of Traditional Afternoon Tea, which was only introduced in the twentieth century. Back to about [...]
Lavender is a miracle tea aromatherapy element. Lavender has been used widely as a mental health assistant. The famous relaxing effects of lavender are real and could even be used medically to treat anxiety, new research suggests. From blooming gardens to aromatherapy oils, herbal infusions, people have long claimed that lavender has calming and relaxing benefits. Lavender Herbal Infusion Linalool, terpene alcohol in the lavender extract, creates calming effects by activating GABAA receptors via olfactory neurons in the nose, unlike benzodiazepines that [...]
Last month, Camellia’s Tea House proudly held the ITEI Tea Sommelier course in three days from 15th to 17th April 2019. The course was occurred at the Dukes Hotel in central London, with the participants are managers from famous hotels and tea passionate drinker, especially one of our trainers are the manager from the Dukes Hotel in Food and Beverage section, her purpose for the course is to expand her knowledge in tea section. The course is designed to provide [...]
How have you been enjoying the weather? Here are some recipes for you to play around! Let's make the best summer iced drinks and get over the heat of summer together. At Camellia's Tea House, we have experimented different flavour combinations and sampled new concoctions and have created a number of truly delicious summer drinks for you guys. Generally, we cold brew the teas that we use for our ice drinks, as we have found that the brew has a sweeter, fuller [...]
Helping to serve community meals across the country. We love to bring people together over tea, and so we though it only made sense that, having done some fundraising for them in the past, we start to support the charity, FoodCycle. FoodCycle serves community meals across the country, with a number of sites here in London, and aims to build communities by combining volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces, creating nutritious meals for people at risk of food poverty [...]
Beautiful Skin Red clover is such a common sight in our fields during the summer, but did you know it has amazing health benefits? When researching for this piece I was shocked to find that this simple flower can have so many positive effects on our health, particularly when brewed as a tea. Often used fresh in salads, we chose to use dried flowers in our Beautiful Skin tisane, and combined the clover with other summer blooms, dandelion, elderflower and [...]
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