Starbucks

It is funny, that in Australia, Starbucks is both loved and loathed - loved if you enjoy its coffee and free wifi, and loathed because it isn't a local company/corporation. It seems to depend on if you have a favorite barista elsewhere. Yet here, it is local (in that it is American), and it happens to serve some of the best takeaway tea I have managed to buy. This is how it is good:

• They put the teabag in before putting in the hot water
• They have done their research and have a decent teabag in the first place
• I don't get the huge cup, so I don't end up with effectively one teabag in two cups worth of hot water
• They provide three different types of milk that requires refrigeration, and nary a site of powdered/long life coffee mate
• In Annapolis mall, the shop is in the quieter 'kids wing' of the mall, where I can buy a cup of tea, and go and drink it at the tables in front of the huge fish tank, with my small excited child and his popper of chocolate milk
• On days when I've really misjudged the food situation, they also serve chocolate croissants :)