[IN THE NEWS] A Visit to the Sawtelle Store

By Allison Levine, Please the Palate

Now that life is starting to get back to a sense of normalcy, I took a walk to Sawtelle Blvd this week. The normally bustling street filled with restaurants had been quiet over the last year but the energy seems to be coming back. There were many people on the street, all masked and respecting social distancing, lining up to order food from one of the many restaurants. I wandered across Olympic Blvd to check out the new Sunright Tea Studio that just opened up. Bright and sunny, serving up a selection of tea drinks, the Sunright Tea Studio is the Please The Palate pick of the week.

The Sunright Tea Studio opened on Sawtelle in West LA at the beginning of April, with a second location that opened the same day in Little Tokyo in Downtown Los Angeles. But, the company was established in Southern California in 2019 and today has ten locations in Southern California and one location in Northern California.

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Sunright has a menu of high-quality teas and creative specialty beverages. And, with a bright and happy ethos, it put a smile on my face as I waited for my turn to order my drinks.

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The Sunny Fruit Tea collection blends fresh fruit with tea. The Strawberry Jasmine Tea is made of fresh strawberries blended with jasmine green tea. I loved the clean and fresh flavor of this tea which has pieces of fresh strawberries mixed in the tea. Other fruit tea flavors include Lemon Jasmine Tea and Grapefruit Jasmin Tea, or there is Yogurt Green Tea, Yogurt Lemon, and Yogurt Orange which are topped with yogurt to add a tart flavor.

The Right Milk Tea collection starts with a tea and cream base and then eclectic ingredients are added. There are thirteen unique flavors in this signature collection and I ordered the customer favorite Sunright Boba Milk Tea. The Sunright Boba Milk Tea is made with a Ceylon tea base, brown sugar, and boba. When you order the drink, you can request it to be more or less sweet but if you order this without adjusting the sweetness, you will find that it just right.

Sunright Boba Milk is like a milk tea, but without the tea and the collection offers tasty combinations. I could not resist the Oreo Brûlée Boba Milk made of a crème brûlée foam and crushed Oreos combined with sweetened fresh milk and boba. I selected this one to be 75% sweet and really enjoyed it.