You can buy scones at the new Samovar Tea on Valencia, but there is no chintz and no tea cozies. There’s nothing cozy about the place; in fact, it’s as spare as a Donald Judd sculpture. White shelves ...

Samovar, an organic and sustainable tea company in San Francisco, recently decided to temporarily close all of its physical locations and will instead move online with tea and seminars. “The origin of ...

There’s a shiny new Samovar in town, and this one’s a lot different from the tea spot’s three other locations. Instead of a traditional teahouse feel, owner Jesse Jacobs’ newest incarnation on ...

A new exhibit devoted to the origins and history of the Russian tea ceremony and the samovar has opened at the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum in Moscow. An RBTH correspondent spoke with the curator ...

There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar. Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is another ...

Beginners to Bigshots featured Jesse Jacobs and Samovar Tea Lounge in the 2004 edition. Here we catch up on what has happened with the business since then. With three locations in San Francisco and a ...

Samovar Tea Lounge owner Jesse Jacobs has started an online video series called Samovar Stories, which feature his interviews with tea lovers and luminaries from all walks of life. A recent session ...

A small chain of soothing San Francisco tea and chai “lounges,” Samovar, is spilling the tea on a new special: tea with a side of mindfulness. The tea is free, but the mindfulness costs customers 60 ...

A late 19th-century samovar made in Tula, Russia, a metalworking town south of Moscow. The very first samovar factory opened in Tula in 1778. As demand for samovars grew, the town became almost ...