HEATHER C.

My husband, daughter, and myself, went here with great expectations after seeing this Tea Room advertised in a Vancouver Island visitor's book. What a disappointment-compared to all that we have been to-and there were many! The tea for two platter of $54 was crazy for what we were given. Top layer was some small fruits, then a sandwich cut in four between us, of excess bland cream cheese with 2 thick tomato slices. Next was a tiny croissant each of agsin, thick cucumber, and the same blob of bland cream cheese. Desert was a huge scone- which was nice- with lemon curd and raspberry jam, and whipped cream. Then two tiny one- bite squares between us. Since I am diabetic, I asked for more savoury than sweet- the answer to that was 2 tiny egg sandwiches each! It was awful and tasteless. The most annoying part was that there were three woman at the next table in this small room a few feet away from us, who were having their tea leaves read, and the woman doing this was talking out loud for all three readings containing some very personal questions, and her own "readings." "We began to feel embarrassed for them, and had to talk louder to hear our own conversations-never mind us trying to block out the too personal information about these women. It was very ridiculous to be put in this situation. As well, another disappointment was that there were only maybe four very ordinary, everyday, at home teas to choose from. I tried to like this, as it was an "experience" for us in what looked like a cute old house with some history to it, but WHAT a price to pay for the two pieces of cucumber, and tomato and a very unrelaxing hour!. Our daughter had the plowman's lunch -and so help me, I won't even go there about that!
This is the honest truth, and I am sad to give such a review, but we felt angry, and disappointed, and the tea reading woman thing was just icing on the cake that we would love to have had!.