The Dog-Eared Page Bookshop, Danville, Va., will add a tea house to its business. The Register & Bee reported that the Dog-Eared Page Tea House, a legally separate entity from the bookstore, will be located above the bookstore when it opens in two or three months.
Work began on the changes upstairs last week. "We're doing some deep cleaning and will be doing some painting," bookshop owner Catherine Carter said. "The hope is to open in March. We're working on getting it ready to go now."
The new tea shop will serve a variety of tea lattes, including chai, caramel royal English breakfast, vanilla chamomile, and others. There will be 10 signature lattes, Carter noted, adding that charcuterie boxes with meats, cheeses, crackers, and fruits will also be offered.
The tea house will be accessed by a set of stairs located next to the bookstore's entrance. The upstairs space will be about half the size of the Dog-Eared Page Bookshop's open area. "Seating will be fairly limited," Carter said. "It's very cozy up there with a few tables and chairs."
The tea house will feature the same logo, a Basset hound named Fitzgerald, as the bookshop. Carter noted that she wants the tea house to complement her bookshop, but not encroach on other businesses in the area. She hopes to achieve a dark academia interior style in her tea house, with dark-blue walls and gold themes: "It's going to have a moody vibe. I'm excited about it."