"“This is one of my favorite best kept secrets. You barely even know it's there because it looks like it's in just a normal West Village apartment building. It's basically a Taiwanese tea house. The founders, one of them worked at Per Se, so you know they're very specific and very intentional. I personally am not a huge tea drinker, but obviously I love dessert. Almost every one of the desserts that they make is a knockout star, but their pineapple linzer cookie for me makes my palate sing. The acidity and sweetness…it's a pineapple jam in this jammy-sammy with a little star cutout. It makes me feel like I'm seeing life in color, and I just bounce up Seventh Avenue to where I need to be next. It's a really calming place, but it's not a whisper of a flavor. I love a sneak attack, and that's what that is.”" - brennan carley