Know any good tea shops in London??
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pigtails
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It's exactly NOT what you said you were looking for!
It looks funky!!!!
I'm open to suggestions.
Two relaxed cafes with good cake: the poetry society cafe (http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/cafe/) and the cafe at the London Review of Books shop (http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/cakeshop)
Imho the best and quirkiest tea shop in London is Louis' in Hampstead. It's a little, wood-panelled, corner of Budapest in London and has incredible cakes 
http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/reviews/6291.html
http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/reviews/6291.html
Wolfie Smith
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Me and a friend tried to find it the other day and couldn't. According to their website it's shut for renovation at the moment.
A Patisserie Valerie opened near me and I went a couple of times , but then cottoned on to the fact that their cakes are actually a bit crap. And it's a pretty unfunky chain now too.
I wasn't as bowled over by Liberty's as I had hoped to be.
Shipps Tearooms in Borough Market would have been good but I think they've had to close due to losing their lease.
Blimey I'm a right ray of sunshine ain't I?
I want to a nice place on Stoke Newington Church Street a few months ago.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Royal Teas in Greenwich is nice
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
It's awesome isn't it!!
See Citizen, it's not just me that understand the joy that is tea and cake!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I have always loved afternoon tea. It seems to have started for real when I was a single parent on the dole, so I couldn't afford to go out much. Me and a friend used to take our kids to posh tea places, and buy an afternoon tea between us. We made sure the kids weren't hungry, because we were not sharing with them!
The only work leaving events I have had have been afternoon tea!
And my daughter took me for a fantastic afternoon on the day I turned 50. It was to a little, old fashioned, but dead posh hotel near Sloane Square somewhere and, because she had booked it in advance, they did lots of really interesting and tasty vegetarian without cheese sandwiches. It was wonderful, and they kept topping our pot of tea up for us.
I am sure it was expensive, though. I didn't ask
The only work leaving events I have had have been afternoon tea!
And my daughter took me for a fantastic afternoon on the day I turned 50. It was to a little, old fashioned, but dead posh hotel near Sloane Square somewhere and, because she had booked it in advance, they did lots of really interesting and tasty vegetarian without cheese sandwiches. It was wonderful, and they kept topping our pot of tea up for us.
I am sure it was expensive, though. I didn't ask
Imho the best and quirkiest tea shop in London is Louis' in Hampstead. It's a little, wood-panelled, corner of Budapest in London and has incredible cakes
http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/reviews/6291.html
That's my boyfriend's local teashop
D) and I wasn't impressed. Maybe it's because he was raving about it so hard and it didn't live up to my expectations.Laduree in Harrods is good, but not very quirky.
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Yeah, that one looks good.
I haven't been for some years but I always liked THE MAIDS OF HONOUR opposite Kew Gardens.
Some reviews here
Streetview
Some reviews here
Streetview
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
doesn't really get the Fortnum and Mason?Harrods/National Portrait Gallery crowd that post here though
the marmalade cake is good and it's lovely after a walk in Greenwich park
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I had afternoon tea in Fortnum and Masons one time, bought for me by a grateful union member, in fact! It was nice, but it was a bit too posh/formal to be really enjoyable, to be honest.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
Then Alfred? Albrecht? in Maison Berteaux is yer man
That looks ace!!
It is.
They've expanded into the shop to the north (Oxford St direction) and that bit's still not properly battered, it's a bit... rectangular.
So it's the teensy tables by the counter, or upstairs.
Don't be starving, or in a hurry.
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