Puppylove
05-15-2007, 10:35 PM
So my sisters and I took my mom to tea or mothers day. We go to tea regularly (w and w/o each other) and this might have been my worst tea experience ever! It was so bad that it was actually funny - we were looking for the hidden camera!
My sister had been at this tea place 9 months ago and thought it was great but 6 weeks ago they changed ownership.
We should have taken the hint when we saw the two women running the place dressed in jeans and t-shirts.
Tea
Then we looked at the menu - standard tea menu, except they charged extra for loose leaf tea. The server brought out a box and tray of assorted teas, stacked them down on the table and said "here are our teas, take a look and let me know which one you want."
We paid the extra and I specified that I like mine extra dark, it was fine. My sister didn't specify and her tea never got dark enough to drink.
Food
The sandwiches . . . had a lot of character . . . and a great sense of humor.
They were: Cheese Whiz on white bread, Tuna (it was brown) with cucumber, chicken with pineapple and peanuts, egg salad, and an olive based something that was way to strong to eat. Not that I wanted a lot of any of these, but they were not generously proportioned.
Scones
Or should I say dinner biscut with stratigically placed raisins. 'Nuf said.
Dessert
Okay, first the lady brought our check out before we were even done with the scones and, though I'm still not sure why, we reminded her that we hadn't even had dessert yet (there is something whimsical about afternoon tea that can, apparently, impair ones judgment in these types of situations).:rolleyes:
So the waitress say "hmmm, let me see if we have anything good." I am NOT kidding.
She brought out 2 slices of lemon cake and a slice of choclate cake, after informing us that, since they are closed Sunday and Monday, they really don't make anything fresh on Saturdays and we got the last of it anyhow! :eek:
The only thing that saved our afternon was finding an English food product called "Spotted Dick.":D That was a good 30 minutes of fun - and at least we got a great story out of it!
Now I need to go detox at my favorite tea place, what an excuse!
My sister had been at this tea place 9 months ago and thought it was great but 6 weeks ago they changed ownership.
We should have taken the hint when we saw the two women running the place dressed in jeans and t-shirts.
Tea
Then we looked at the menu - standard tea menu, except they charged extra for loose leaf tea. The server brought out a box and tray of assorted teas, stacked them down on the table and said "here are our teas, take a look and let me know which one you want."
We paid the extra and I specified that I like mine extra dark, it was fine. My sister didn't specify and her tea never got dark enough to drink.
Food
The sandwiches . . . had a lot of character . . . and a great sense of humor.
They were: Cheese Whiz on white bread, Tuna (it was brown) with cucumber, chicken with pineapple and peanuts, egg salad, and an olive based something that was way to strong to eat. Not that I wanted a lot of any of these, but they were not generously proportioned.
Scones
Or should I say dinner biscut with stratigically placed raisins. 'Nuf said.
Dessert
Okay, first the lady brought our check out before we were even done with the scones and, though I'm still not sure why, we reminded her that we hadn't even had dessert yet (there is something whimsical about afternoon tea that can, apparently, impair ones judgment in these types of situations).:rolleyes:
So the waitress say "hmmm, let me see if we have anything good." I am NOT kidding.
She brought out 2 slices of lemon cake and a slice of choclate cake, after informing us that, since they are closed Sunday and Monday, they really don't make anything fresh on Saturdays and we got the last of it anyhow! :eek:
The only thing that saved our afternon was finding an English food product called "Spotted Dick.":D That was a good 30 minutes of fun - and at least we got a great story out of it!
Now I need to go detox at my favorite tea place, what an excuse!