Coffee v tea: battle for Britain may have reached tipping point

By Howard Chua-EoanThe nearly 100-year-old Tea Building in the London district of Shoreditch is a sentimental symbol of one of Britain’s most venerated commodities. Tea is still served there: at the coffee stations in the offices that occupy the former warehouse for the legendary Lipton company, in tough-to-book restaurant tenants like Brat and Lyle’s, or at the local branch of the Soho House empire that occupies a corner. Otherwise, tea’s just the name on the big sign on the roof; it’s no longer a going enterp...