We're spilling the tea on You & Yours' Holiday Afternoon Tea

You & Yours Distilling Co., in the East Village, spikes its afternoon tea with some holiday cheer on Sunday.

The charming East Village distillery will hold an oh-so-civilized, oh-so-festive holiday cocktail, tea and finger food event

Dec. 5, 2019

9:30 AM

Pinkies up, people.

The always-charming You & Yours Distilling Co. is adding some holiday cheer to its afternoon tea.

The oh-so-civilized festivities include a welcome cocktail, hot tea service, your choice of one spiked tea cocktail and a traditional tiered tray of petit finger sandwiches, pretty pastries and scones.

Don’t forget to keep your napkin handy — spilling the tea, aka gossiping, has long been an afternoon tea tradition.

Holiday Afternoon Tea

3-5 p.m. Sunday. 1495 G St., East Village. $45. bit.ly/338upkp

You & Yours’ teabag cookies could not be sweeter.

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Michele Parente

Michele Parente is the Dining, Wine + Lifestyle reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her areas of expertise include the Valle de Guadalupe wine region, fashion, television, women’s issues and coverage of aging, such as the impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia and family caregiving. Michele is the former Sunday and features editor, where she oversaw profiles, special projects, such as the Legacy of WWII and in-depth reports on a variety of topics. She joined the U-T in 2003, supervising coverage areas that have included features, fashion, TV, Food, Consumer Health and Arts & Entertainment. Previously, Michele was the assistant features editor at The Oregonian, in Portland, as well as the Portland City Hall reporter. She spent 10 years at New York Newsday as a reporter on the crime, education, state legislature and New York City Hall beats. She was part of a team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting. A native New Yorker, Michele received her B.A. in political science and Italian Literature at UC Berkeley. In 1980, she studied at L’Università di Urbino, in Italy. One of her life’s goals is to make her way through each of the world’s great wine regions.