Author Archives: Silver Tips

Weekend Specials

With Hurricane Danny around the corner, this weekend is threatening rain and gloom.  Banish the blues and visit us for Jacque’s delicious specials featured this weekend.  If you’ve never tried one of her pies or award-winning quality desserts, do yourself a favor and come on in.  The Ice Cream uses our Toasted Almond tisane from our [...]

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Coffee & Tea Trends

The August 2009 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer, a trade magazine for the coffee/tea industry just published 2010 trends.  It noted that breakfast teas, non-caffeine (rooibos) teas and the healthy reputation of green teas continued to resonate with consumers, and that this segment was expected to grow.  George Jage, President of World Tea Expo and our friend, was [...]

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Construction finally begun

We got our official Permit today from the Building Department of Tarrytown.  This gives us the green signal to begin construction.  We still have a ways to go before we close but this puts us on our way.  First, we will clean up the store next door, put in a new restroom, install an additional [...]

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Feedback on 2009 Makaibari

Here’s the first report, received yesterday,  from one of our loyal Makaibari fans on this year’s crop: “After hearing all the bad weather reports from the Makaibari Estate earlier this year, I didn’t know what to expect.  I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised when I sampled the first flush tea.  And the second [...]

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More news from our New Office

Today, we received a spectacular welcome gift – a plant from our Landlord, Mack-Cali, one of the most reputable property management companies in this area.  We continue to be delightfully surprised by their prompt service, attention to detail and the care they lavish on each tenant.  Yesterday, we discovered our Executive Park has a cafeteria [...]

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