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Windsor café serves tea (made from coffee!)

Coffee cherry tea - also known as cascara - is a beverage made from the dried skin of coffee cherries.

Windsor Morning's Jonathan Pinto tries coffee cherry tea at Anchor Coffee House on Huron Church Road

Preparing coffee cherry tea at Anchor Coffee House

9 years ago
Duration 2:02
Anchor Coffee House owner Kyle Bondy shows how to prepare coffee cherry tea, a beverage made from the dried skin of the coffee cherry.

I find most people are either coffee or tea drinkers. Personally, I alternate, drinking tea during the week, and coffee on weekends. Sometimes, I'll even sip on a tisane — also known as herbal tea.

This week, I discovered a drink that really blurs the lines between these categories.

It's called coffee cherry tea. Also known as cascara, coffee cherry tea is made by steeping pitted, dried coffee cherries in hot water, and running that the liquid through a strainer. It's very fruity, slightly tart, but sweet. 

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After three years of talking food on Thursday morning, Jonathan Pinto is moving to Friday. This week, he told us about the coffee cherry tea sold at Anchor Coffee House on Huron Church Road.

Want to try coffee cherry tea?

You can purchase coffee cherry tea — as well as dried coffee cherries — at Anchor Coffee House, located 2187 Huron Church Rd., just north of the E.C. Row Expressway. They're open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Pinto is the host of Up North, CBC Radio One's regional afternoon show for Northern Ontario and is based in Sudbury. He was formerly a reporter/editor and an associate producer at CBC Windsor. Email jonathan.pinto@cbc.ca.