Curious Tea Rooms Edit

This tea location has a lovely Alice in Wonderland theme to it. There are two tea rooms- one being “wonderland forest” themed with a dark forest landscape (unfortunately this was just printed on the wall and the images/scenery were distorted from up close)- the other being “wonderland castle” themed with a traditional tea room decor and white and red plastic roses on the wall. The centre-piece in the “wonderland forest”-themed room was the fully set tea table upside-down on the ceiling- a call to the Mad-Hatter’s tea party, I’m sure. The menu is quite extensive with lots of sandwich and pastry options. On my visit, I ordered the traditional afternoon tea for 1 which came with a sandwich, salad, root vegetable crisps and a high quality 1st flush black tea. The reason that I have to give a low rating to this so-called “tea room” is that the leaves were simply thrown in a pot without any way to remove them after the infusion time was over. This led to a lovely first cup but the subsequent cups were bitter, with the last one being un-drinkable. This would be a nice place to visit if you were planning to order a tisane which can infuse indefinitely. The loose leaf tea sold here comes in flimsy paper bags with a large cellophane window and the bags are not labelled with the name of the tea.