$1.95 Worth of Sweet and Salty Heaven

The other day I stopped into Teaism (2009 R St NW) for a snack on my way home from work. I thought I would give their Salty Oat Cookie a try, because I’ve been hearing people rave about it since I got here. Always a fan of the salty sweet, I had high hopes for this oaty little lump and the SOC playfully hit about every taste bud on my tongue. When you first bite into it, you immediately taste the salty, as the top of the cookie has a liberal dusting of coarse salt. Give it a couple of chews and your mouth is bursting with the sweet, hearty taste of a good oatmeal raisin cookie. The SOC packs a good crunch when you bite into it from its salty crust, but the inside has a nice toothsome chewiness that you associate with the homemade cookies Mom used to make. At a buck ninety-five its well worth joining the intellectual flower-children types who frequent this popular tea party hotspot (which in addition to tea, offers a variety of Asian-inspired grub if you’re feeling like eating something other than cookies). It’s one of the only acceptable instances where you shouldn’t resist joining the crunchy, granola-eating (in this case oat-eating) masses in the District.

PS For all the chocoholics, they also have a CHOCOLATE  Salty Oat Cookie. Mmmmm.