London Fog
Difficulty 1/5 Ingredients 4 Steps 3
London fog (also known as Vanilla Tea Misto or an Earl Grey Tea Latte) is the name of a drink which originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, although the creator remains unknown, among several claims. One such claim is from Buckwheat Cafe on 4th Avenue in Vancouver (now closed) when in December 1996 a regular customer, Mary Loria, who was pregnant and couldn't drink coffee asked for an alternative. Another…
Ingredients
- 1 bag Earl Grey tea
- ½ cup boiling water
- 16 oz milk (2% or whole)
- 1 shot vanilla syrup
Steps
- Add boiling water and tea bag to mug. Steep 2–4 minutes to make Earl Grey concentrate.
- Heat milk, steamer preferred. Mix in vanilla syrup.
- Add hot milk to tea to taste.
Notes from the original
- Oregon Mist: Replace the Earl Grey tea with green tea and the vanilla syrup with amaretto; popularized by the Glenwood restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.
- Manchester Fog: Replace the milk with soy milk.
- Dublin Fog: Replace the Earl Grey tea with Irish breakfast tea.
- Bangalore Fog: Replace the Earl Grey tea with a chai tea blend; created by Kavya Raman at Roosters Coffeehouse, Carleton University, Ottawa ON; also known as a Bombay Fog (coined in Concordia-Loyola's Second Cup, Montreal, QC).
- Atlantic City Fog: Replace the Earl Grey tea with with rose tea; created by Alexis V. Juneau at MCB Quantico, Quantico, Virginia.
- Winter Fog: Reduce the vanilla syrup and add clover honey to taste.
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:London Fog” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2025-07-15, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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