Like Olympic swimmers and gremlins, tea leaves only reveal their true power after being dunked in water. Unleash hidden strength with today’s Groupon to Flying Carpet Café & Bar on Poplar Street. Choose from the following options:

• For $10, you get a tapas sampler platter and tea package for two (up to a $22 value) or a sandwich and tea package for two (up to a $22 value):
  
  

• For $15, you get a sampler platter, sandwich, and tea package for two (up to a $38 value) that includes:

  • A tapas sampler platter (a $16 value)
  • Two sandwiches (up to a $16 value)
  • Two specialty teas (up to a $6 value)
    
    

Flying Carpet Café & Bar blends international tastes into delightful sandwiches and tapas accompanied by organic tea. The cozy café stocks 14 varieties of organic loose-leaf tea in flavors such as amaretto spice, which defrosts tongues frozen from hands-free ice-sculpting contests. Twosomes opting for the sampler platter can dip fresh olives, feta cheese, falafel, and spinach pie into meticulously crafted baba gannouj and hummus. Region-representative sandwiches dish out delicious geography lessons in forms such as the Norwegian wrap, whose pita coddles cream cheese and smoked salmon together with capers and onions, or the Parisian, which bears roast beef, grilled onions, spinach, and brie, much like an actual Parisian going through customs. Epicurean duos can match their delicately paired eats with the ear-tickling sounds of live jazz on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.