L. Spencer
User's reviews
-
Favorite Place
This is not a tea room. I repeat this is not a tea room!!! Looks like one but certainly doesn’t act like one. With prior reservation and arriving on time, we had to wait 25 minutes to be seated, another 10 minutes to be acknowledged only to be told that for afternoon tea we had to call in advance and request afternoon tea ,menu. HELLO, that is precisely what we did. The food we ended up ordering was awful and the price was way too high. Not worth it.
-
Rose Tree Cottage
Picture this… Pasadena, California. A charming Little cottage. Inside a cramped room full of Aga stoves, men clothing, soaps, books and dusty dishes. No open windows, no air, frightfully stuffy. Being greeted by an extremely rude woman simply because you are late exactly 5 minutes. A small confined table in the corner of a backroom. Dusty and dirty glass shelves. One kind of tea, no choice here. No teapot on the table, constantly have to beg the rude server who acts as if she is pouring liquid gold into your cup. Stale bread, with thin spreads of tasteless ingredients, not enough even with afternoon tea standards. Petite sweets that were so so. I must admit the scones are very good. Now here comes the shocker!! After being presented with a hefty check, we were soon asked to leave so that they can clean and set up for the next sitting. If this is your idea of lovely afternoon tea, be my guest. But if you are an aficionado afternoon tea drinker, look for another place, such as Mc Charles House. Lilac Spencer