Ever wanted to have an iced beverage named after you? Now is your chance. To kick off its First Annual Iced Tea Festival, on June 2nd SoHo tea haven Sanctuary T will be letting customers create their own special iced tea using the restaurant's many special blends. The winner of the competition will not only have their iced tea named after them and added to the summer menu, but they will be entitled to drink their eponymous tea for free all summer long (6 PM; $20 per person, all proceeds go to City Harvest).
But the festival, which runs June 2nd–8th, won't just be about making iced tea. It will also be about drinking it. Each day, the restaurant will have five iced different blends to try, including a lime-mandarin green tea spritzer, cinnamon-chile iced tea, watermelon lemonade and the classic Southern "sweet" tea. The beverages will be virgin during the the day, but once the sun sets, the drinks will slip into the notoriously liquor-soaked history of iced tea with some harder blends (212-941-7832).