« New at DKA: “Guardian” by Sharon Partington | Main | Dry Spell »
June 13, 2006
The Tea House
I just got back from a few days in Delaware with my mom. We stayed with a friend of hers and had a great time.
My favorite part of the weekend was having lunch at the Victorian Lady Tea House. It was very cool.
It’s this lovely, little Victorian house. The dining room has a rack of hats and boas that the guests are encouraged to wear as they take their tea. We each tried on hats, but I was the only one (at our table, anyway) who wore a hat during lunch. I had the sense to choose a more practical hat, a cream-colored one with a short brim and a flower. The other ladies had chosen huge, pink, floppy hats with netting. So that didn’t last long.
We got the Queen’s Tea, which is the top of the line. It started with a pot of tea for each of us. I chose the Eye of the Tibetan Tiger. It was so yummy, I ended up sharing it so everyone could have a taste. It’s a black tea with chocolate and other flavors.
The first course was the soup of the day, a chilled strawberry soup. I don’t particularly like strawberries but this was delicious. Who would have thought it?
Next we had cherry scones with lemon curd and Devon cream. The scones were also yummy.
Then, the lady brought us one those double-tiered serving trays with tea sandwiches on the bottom level and desserts on the top. There was a selection of four types of sandwiches and four types of desserts, enough for each person to have one of every selection. My favorite sandwich was chicken salad in a phyllo dough cup with raspberry jam on top. A close second was cucumber and cream cheese on some kind of toasted bread. We also had an egg salad sandwich and a three-layered BLT.
It’s hard to choose a favorite dessert but we had mini cheesecakes (probably my favorite), a sweet blueberry scone with icing, chocolate-covered strawberries with cream, and the most beautiful petit fours you’ve ever seen.
Everything was delicious and we were surprisingly full after all those tiny treats.
They also have a gift shop and I nearly bought some tea in addition to one of the lovely teapot necklaces they had. They were so dainty. Tiny tea pots at the end of delicate chains.
I had such a great time. I hope to go back again. I know I’ll be on the lookout for other tea houses in the future. However, I doubt all tea houses would have the charming character of this one.
Posted by Selena at June 13, 2006 07:21 AM