Located well off the beaten path, in Piața Traian area, in a neighbourhood of greatly restored Old Bucharest houses, the Green Tea is a connaisseur place. A finely renovated and decorated house, including an Indian and a Japanese saloon, a nice attic room and a great terrace, with plenty of flowers. Why would you go there? For the many teas on offer, as well as for a relaxed time. Oh, and I have saved the best for the last: order a Krantz, a lovelicious chocolate and candid sugar cake served with nut ice cream. Or vote for some of their exquisite jams, like the green nut jam. And, thank Nanak, no smoking inside (other than waterpipe), good quality, low key music, a fine crowd and thankfully lacking the Romanian Holy Trinity. And hell I like that clock that keeps on showing only green hours, to go with a glass of red wine and some platter of cheese.

The down side: the young staff they employ has an innocent and usually good approach, but it is also clumsy at times (when they do not disappear all the way). Cakes can come in a big portion today, just to be reduced to dwarf size tomorrow. A 2013 visit had me experience a lower than average quality of teas; I am actually positive that was not the Darjeeling I had ordered either by looks or by taste. Such errors they make are hopefully not on purpose though and the place has a good vibe, especially in summer. So they get, hmm, err, half a thumb up. Yet for guaranteed good quality teas head to the Bernschutz instead (the one on Eremia Grigorescu Street), for fine service in a teahouse - to the Infinitea, respectively for a special atmosphere while leaving it all behind the front door - to the Ceai la Cotroceni.

GPS - N44 26.045 E26 07.127

A street to the back of the old Piața Traian (nowadays a Mega Image Supermarket).

Str. Doctor Burghelea 24, http://www.greentea.ro