York or Harrogate

[Mike88]

Gwendolyn - 2013-08-24 11:31 PM

 

Robinhood - 2013-08-24 10:17 PM

 

Gwendolyn - 2013-08-24 10:09 PM

 

That’s just the price for the “set” Afternoon Tea. You can just have a pot of tea and a cake. But I love taking afternoon teas. Especially Champagne Teas. Pump Rooms in Bath is another favourite venue of mine. Afternoon tea – one of life’s pleasures.

 

 

....actually, that's the price of the "officer's mess" equivalent of afternoon tea.

 

The "canteen" equivalent is somewhat cheaper, (e.g. a cream tea at £9) and not pre-bookable.

 

Nonetheless, I'll bet you won't see many genuine Yorkshire folk in there at those prices. ;-)

 

(cardboard shoebox?)

 

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Mind you, Gwen, it would be around €40 in France, and the tea would be an abomination. (lol)

 

When I lived in Somerset, [a long time we spent there], doing the rounds of Cream Tea places was de rigueur. Monday morning, at work, we’d compare notes.

 

When the internet was in its infancy, a chum and I decided we’d do a web – The Guide To Good Cream Teas in Somerset. The guide never did get written…. but by heck.. did we enjoy sampling the teas!!

 

BTW if anyone is interested:

Hornsbury Mill

Bossington Tea Gardens

are pretty good.

 

And… for Mike… who is, I gather from another thread, off to stay at Exmoor House CC Site – Dulverton is pretty good for Cream Teas. Enjoy!!!

 

Cheers

Gwen

 

I'll report back on prices.

[Mel B]

Harrogate doesn't have much to do in it whereas York does, plus there's the National Railway Museum which is free to go in and very interesting. As for tea/cakes - there's a nice little church in the centre of York on the corner near the main street with the shops (can't say exactly where as I haven't been for a while!) and they run a lovely cafe where you can get a proper cuppa with lovely cakes plus they do NOT rip you off - its nothing fancy, just good old 'home' type cakes, buns and stuff, much nicer than your sugar stuffed cakes (cup cakes which are all icing!) that you get in a lot of cafes now. Also, it's nice to support the old dears that put the work in to run it every day too.