Mention tea to a Texan, and chances are good that he or she will assume you mean iced tea.
Not everyone craves coffee, and not everyone demands Dr Pepper. But it's probably safe to say that 95 percent of Texans like a glass of cold black tea, well-iced in a tall glass, maybe with lemon or sugar added.
Plenty of places offer a basic glass of iced Lipton, Luzianne, Tetley or Nestea with dinner. That standard orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea has been a classic for generations, and it's not likely to disappear soon – especially here, where people cherish home-style flavors.
But more options are available, both in restaurants and in stores. Even commercial tea brands boast of modern polish. For example, Lipton offers flavored white, green and herbal teas – as well as black Sri Lankan tea – in pyramid-shaped tea bags that became popular a few years ago.
New restaurants are more apt to serve flavored iced teas, and they also are likely to experiment with the presentation. For example, the new Screen Door in One Arts Plaza places iced tea on the table in a glass milk bottle to emphasize the menu's Southern roots.
Screen Door also provides quick-dissolving simple syrup – the preference of many gourmets and dining critics – to sweeten iced tea (or you can have your tea presweetened). Fearing's, which opened about a year ago at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, will bring the simple syrup to your table along with the usual accouterments: lime, lemon and mint.
Here's a selection of Dallas restaurants with owners and chefs who take iced tea seriously, making careful decisions about what they serve and how it is presented
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