Taking tea at Lovejoys has become a favorite ritual for San Franciscans. On any given weekend, the bright, antique-filled room is filled with groups of people celebrating birthdays, showers, or other special occasions with gorgeous towers of elegant tea sandwiches, scones, fruit, biscuits, and an ever-present pot of the award-winning house tea. Some patrons dress up in large, floppy hats and long, white gloves, but no one minds if you dress down in jeans and a T-shirt. Lovejoys rejoices in the charms of tea without the pretension. All dishes are decidedly mismatched. And if you take a liking to your teapot, you can take it home with you.