This is a great spot to sit and rest your weary feet after having wandered along the Thames all afternoon enjoying a warm day. They give you brewed tea in a teapot and a real cup to drink from. (I detest drinking from paper cups, ruins the experience) I had the dragonwell (one of my current favorite teas) and B had a pricey oolong. They have all the teas and herbal teas represented on their menu, with at least 4 to choose from in each category (green, black, white, herbal).

The tea is brewed for you, so it arrives at the table (they bring it to you!) and doesn’t need fiddling with (no leaves in the pot). I thought they did a great job of brewing my dragonwell, though I thought the oolong was a bit overbrewed, or maybe they used too much tea. I’m a bit of a tea geek, so don’t worry. Their tea is far superior to those from coffee-chains-that-shall-not-be-named. Since you get a pot, you also get a nice amount of tea. I think our expensive teas were 2.5 quid each. We added a warm scone with cream and jam for 2.7 quid, though I’d get the sticky toffee cake next time (it looked yummy). The scone wasn’t very warm (and comes with currants fyi).

No bookings required, this is a happy drop-in kinda place. And it’s full of funky old tables of the exact sort that I’ve been searching for for my own house of late. Now if only they sold tables and tea.