Hot Tea at the Dallas Museum of Art!
The Cultured Cup is proud to announce the beginning of hot tea service at the Dallas Museum of Art’s Seventeen Seventeen Restaurant. Thanks to our relationship with Sodexo and Stephan Pyles, we were privileged to meet Chef Jason Ferraro and develop a unique and cutting-edge tea program to begin in conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art’s anticipated Tutankhamen exhibition. After your tour of the Tut exhibit, be sure to stop by Seventeen Seventeen Restaurant for a wonderful lunch and tea from The Cultured Cup.
And please stop by the restaurant every third Friday evening for Late Nights at The DMA, where Kyle will give presentations about tea from around the world paired with Chef Jason's worldly cuisine!
Best Fancy Teas
The Cultured Cup was recently featured in The Dallas Observer's Best of Dallas issue:
"We know folks around here prefer their tea heavily sweetened and over ice. And we will never refuse a tall glass of sweet tea on a muggy summer day. But at home, away from judgmental Texas eyes, we love to fill our Bodum tea press with a delicious hot tea—one of our favorites is Thé Rouge au Sahara from Mariage Frères, a rooibos-based herbal blend with mint and rose petals. Yes, we are fancy. And fortunately, The Cultured Cup has a wide selection of Mariage Frères teas to satisfy all our snooty desires. Not sure what kind of tea you like? They are glad to make suggestions, and the tea "bar" offers gotta-have-it-now tasting opportunities. To indulge your sweet tooth, Cultured Cup offers fresh Belgian candies from Leonidas (we love the fruit-shaped "jellies") and drinking chocolate fit for a queen (seriously)."
The Cultured Cup in Modern Luxury Dallas
Modern Luxury Dallas swung by The Cup to take a few pictures for an article about some of the finer restaurant tea programs in The French Room, Screen Door, and our very own tea appearing in Seventeen Seventeen Restaurant:
"Chef Jason Ferraro consults with [Kyle] Stewart much as he would with a sommelier. During the...Tutankhamun exhibit, for example, many of the dishes will reflect North African influences, and service will include suggested tea pairings. 'They will be pairing tea with dishes, like wine,' says Stewart,...adding the concept 'goes way beyond what the British tea ceremony is all about.'
The tea bar will be like an open kitchen where tea is brewed to order. That doesn't exclude iced tea, however...He and chef Ferraro collaborated to find the perfect tea to serve iced. They settled on a full-bodied black tea with assertive flavors of Mediterranean fruit and marigold flower that come across as a 'velvety taste' (Bolero).
The Cup Dishing Out Gratitude
The Cultured Cup was invited to serve beverages at North Texas Food Bank's Dishing Out Gratitude Ceremony. We highlighted our Iced Bolero and Kyle's own Cold Chocolate Cherry shots made with shaved Belgian Chocolate.
Upgraded Beverage Service at The Cup
We have further developed our beverage service over the summer to offer more reason to sit and relax at the bar or lounge. We now serve flavored "chillachinos," chocolate drinks, a superior form of iced coffee, as well as the usual tea and coffee to order, iced or hot with your choice of sweeteners from sugar cubes to Organic Agave nectar.
