The Artful Dodger Group

Our Friends at the Artful Dodger in Elsternwick are busy adding more venues to their stable of fantastic coffee houses

Artful Dodger Elsternwick

School of 7 bells Windsor

Whyte Cafe Glen Huntley Road Carnegie

Just thought I'd let you know they do extraordinary tea and extraordinary coffee!

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Monks Mead - Chamomile, Apple & Mango Tisane Who wouldn't love this?

This week has been filled with talk about Monk's Mead.

Here in Melbourne we supply Cabrini Hospitals, The Real Estate Institute of Victoria, Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Center and their patrons have shown us how much they love this blend ... but Ive been thinking... There are lots of people that may not frequent the above venues so why not spread the good news around?
So, for the next 4 days if you make an online order of MONKS MEAD at Serendipitea.com.au of either our 12 PACK over-sized tea bags or our standard retail box you will receive a 40% discount !
So... that's 40% off  until midnight April 14th ... come and get it!

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The JACKSONS , Craig David and a brand new blend

Recently, we got a call here at Serendipitea central ... It was our friends at the Melbourne convention & exhibition centre and they had a very interesting question for us ... "Do you have a tea that would coat, relax & soothe a singers throat?" This is exactly why it great that we are an artisan tea blender... My answer was ... of course we can blend something up for you!
Little did I know that the throats in need of soothing were those of none other than THE JACKSONS.
Long story short... I blended up a mix of Lemon myrtle, mint, liquorice,cinnamon, cardamom, blue marrow flower & black tea and a few other things and sent it over to MCEC. It was a smash!
The next week Craig David played The Plenary and we got another request and again another smash.

So now we're thinking... Why not release it....spread the word far & wide!



Maybe it'll start a sensation ... People will be sipping it from Sydney to Perth!! It may even change the way australia thinks about tea!!

... Ok... Maybe not but hey, it tastes great so look for it soon on Serendipitea.com.au

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Zumbo, funky macaroons and Sydney

To tell the truth I've never really had a great macaroon.
I remember the macaroons from the days of old, lemon or maybe vanilla but to tell the truth I never found then very exciting. Little did I know that there has been a revolution building, like the rest of the world I've seen the shows featuring Baking Boffins like Adriano Zumbo and I got it... there's a guy who is trying to do new and inventive things with old, sometimes tired ideas, but no Doco could have prepared me for the reality of actually tasting the confections on offer at Zumbo's Star city cafe!
Recently I took a drive up to Sydney so naturally I stopped in to see Zumbo, as they are one of our new customers. Salted butter caramel, Blackened vanilla, Salted butter popcorn these are not the flavors I remember! If you read this blog you know I like to add pics but unfortunately no macaroons survived long enough to be photographed.
I'm not sure that I would've taken the place for a patisserie, large window, bright lights, white walls, and a cue that obstructed the display cabinet that held the macaroons that are the topic of this post but just like those macaroons this patisserie is created to run from the norm.
while I stood in the cue I heard someone remarking that the Zumbo sign above was a bit much... but for my money after tasting ... I'd say the sign is not quite large enough!
Take a bit of advice from me if you're around Star City or any of the other Zumbo locations do drop in it's worth the trip and since there's only one brand of tea on offer there ( one guess what it is) stop for a while and savor the flavor!