Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Tea in London




One week ago today........ I was taking a stroll down the London streets, enjoying the street performers and market at Convent garden, having tea at a wonderful tea room by St. Pauls cathedral (sigh!). Both my mum and I left St. Louis on June 18th to make a trip back home and visit family and friends. My Grandma (We call her Nan), celebrated her 90th birthday on June 21st. We had a lovely lunch by the ocean and enjoyed time with family. We left the south coast early on Tuesday morning (after narrowly missing the bus because we had so much luggage we could barely make it down the street!!) and made our way up to London. After dropping our bags off at the Victoria station baggage hold, we made our way over to convent garden. Convent garden is one of my favorite places in London to visit. There are amazing, entertaining street perfomers, anything from juggling, magicians and opera. Amazing! We made a quick visit to the transport museum (they have a great shop), and the market with anything from tea shirts to tacky souvenirs. Not forgetting all the wonderful little shops such as Lush, Monsoon, the tea palace and so, so much more. After our visit to convent garden, we began our walk to St. Pauls cathedral. We strolled down The Strand, following that to Fleet Street, walking past Somerset house, the courts of justice (right across from this was Twinings Tea) and finally to St. Pauls. Before we left St. Louis, I googled tea rooms in London, trying to find a tea room similar to ours. I found a place called "Tea" that was right next to St. Pauls, so we made our mind up to visit. Incidently, while googling a tea room in London, the tea room that kept popping up was our very own London Tea room. Had to smile at that. We found Tea tucked in to a little corner right across from St. Pauls. The two girls (Rose and Natalia) behind the counter were very friendly and very happy to meet some fellow tea shop workers from across the pond. They had a good selection of different teas. I ordered a vanilla tea and mum ordered a darjeeling. I noticed that they steep their tea exactly the same way as us. Both of us ordered a scone with cream and jam. They toasted the scone, which is something that I have never experienced before. I think I prefer my scone untoasted but it was still very good.
After feeling very full and happy, we made our way over to St. Pauls and quietly walked in to the beautiful, awesome cathedral. As we walked in we realized there was a service in progress. We sat quietly and listened to the crescending voices of the chior. It was as if we were listening to angels. It was amazing and a wonderful way to wrap up an amazing visit to London and our time spent in England. We made it home on Wednesday 24th with many fond memories of our visit but very happy to be home with our familes and of course with our friends at The London Tearoom.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Jackie's first blog!

This is my first, ever, official blog entry! As Anna mentioned in the previous post, I am going to attempt to keep up with the London Tea room blog and keep you all updated with the tea room going on's. We have had a busy month and we are gearing up for the all star game the week of July 13th. I have an idea that we could be VERY busy. In light of that, we are going to be open on Monday, July 13th (usual time - 7.30am-5pm). So for those of you tea room fans that are at a total loss of where to get their great tea and coffee on Mondays, we will be there for you on the 13th!!
However, we will not be there for you on Saturday, July 4th as we will all be enjoying our brats and beer!! (Did that sound American enough?? )
Look out for my upcoming blog on my trip to England last week.
Jackie

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Changes!

Jackie will now be taking over the London Tea Room blog. I have enjoyed my time posting and may continue from time to time if certain teas or coffees pop up to write about. Jackie is the new manager and part owner of the Tea Room and will keep you all posted on events and things of interest.

Thanks! Anna

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Steepster

You can follow me on Steepster to see what I'm drinking!

http://annamyers.steepster.com/

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Thank you! We are so chuffed!

(Chuffed in England means flattered, pleased.)
This was a review that toasted ravioli did of us. We thought we would post it because we like posting nice things about ourselves.

http://www.toastedrav.com/post/6501_the_london_tea_room_homesick_brits_bring_the_best_tea_to_stl

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Tea Cupping Dates Coming very very soon I promise...

I am working on the logistics and dates for the next tea cupping and will have an announcement any day now. I've been inundated with questions as to when the next one will be which is entirely fantastic as we love hosting them. I'm curious if anyone has any particular leanings in what they would like our next cuppings to involve. Let me know!

Fully stocked and yes, the Earl Grey is back in!!

Just thought I'd drop a note to tell all of you that we are now fully stocked again with tea. We were out of Earl Grey and several other popular teas for a while, but we are fully stocked again! The organic Earl Grey is becoming an increasingly hard one to keep in stock as it really is absolutely fabulous. If you haven't given it a try, definitely give a try next time you're in. I like it black with a lemon - I've heard it reported that that is the proper, traditional way to drink it. But I know many Brits who drink it with milk. Either way, we promise we won't laugh at you :)