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| - I must preface this by saying we only visited the Teahouse, which is in the basement of the main Two Penny dining room.
Honestly, we kind of stumbled here as we wanted a place to hangout before we went to a show at Habitat just next door. Upon entering the basement, the Teahouse was pretty much exactly what I expected - dark and dingy, a place you go to not for the aesthetics, but the offerings. The wall across the entryway has an awesome wallpaper featuring overlapping tigers on a sea of blue. I've never been to the region, but the ambiance was on point for what I expected.
We decided to sample some of the cocktails. The menu is short, but provides fairly good variety. I decided to get the Mandy Derby (bourbon, mandarine, honey, lemon), which is basically your typical citrusy bourbon drink, although you can taste the quality ingredients. Later on I decided to try the Virgin Kaine (tennesse whiskey, toasted oats, honey, apple bitters), which honestly I'm not sure how to describe, but it was incredibly delicious. Had to be careful with this one as you can definitely put it back a bit too fast with how good it was.
The teahouse also has a dim sum cart that goes around. The chef talked up their dumplings, so we passed on all of the other items in order to wait for them as they had sold out of them. For some reason though he eventually told us they would not be making anymore dumplings for the evening, so we didn't end up trying anything from the cart.
Overall, the teahouse is a cool place to hang out and grab good drinks with some interesting foods. Will definitely be back for more.
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