Top North American Tea Rooms: Vancouver makes the list

Tea time. Photo by Sue Frause.

Vancouver is tops for tea. In an article in USA Today, Vancouver's Sawa Tea Lounge & Gallery was included in 10 great places to be steeped in tea, tradition and comfort:

1. Dunshanbe Teahouse, Boulder, Colorado
2. Tea and Sympathy, New York City
3. Samovar Tea Lounge, San Francisco
4. The Tea Room, Savannah, Georgia
5. Ching Ching Cha, Washington, DC
6. Sawa Tea Lounge & Gallery, Vancouver, BC
7. The Dunbar Tea Shop, Sandwich, Massachusetts
8. Tea Gschwendner on Halstead Street, Chicago
9. Tower of Cosmic Reflections, Portland, Oregon
10. Floating Leaves, Seattle