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Behind the scenes at the UK's best tea room: Davenports in Cheshire

Behind the scenes at the UK's best tea room: Davenports in Cheshire

Davenports in Cheshire has won The Tea Guild's Top Tea Place Award 2013. Owner Belinda Davenport explains the story behind the success. Posted: 16th May 2013 Read more →

Success Story

Success Story

The Goring Hotel in Mayfair has been recognized by The Tea Guild as the best place in London to go for afternoon tea. Catherine Whyte finds out more. Posted: 23rd April 2013 Read more →

Davenports Tea Room awarded UK's Top Tea Place 2013

Davenports Tea Room awarded UK's Top Tea Place 2013

An Alice in Wonderland themed tea room in Northwich, Cheshire, has been named as the best place in the UK to enjoy afternoon tea, after winning the prestigious Tea Guild's Top Tea Place Award 2013. Posted: 12th April 2013 Read more →

The Montagu Arms Awarded Top City and Country Hotel Award 2013

The Montagu Arms Awarded Top City and Country Hotel Award 2013

The Montagu Arms Country Hotel has achieved the highest accolade of the tea world by winning The Tea Guild's Top City and Country Hotel Tea Award 2013. Posted: 11th April 2013 Read more →

The Goring Hotel named as London's Top Afternoon Tea Place 2013

The Goring Hotel has been awarded The 2013 Top London Afternoon Tea Award by The Tea Guild. Posted: 10th April 2013 Read more →

London wins 22 prestigious Tea Guild Awards of Excellence this year

The Tea Guild has bestowed 22 Awards of Excellence in this year's Top London Afternoon Tea Awards... Posted: 9th April 2013 Read more →

2013 Tea Guild Awards of Excellence

As the standards that Tea Guild members offer their customers continue to rise ever higher it was... Posted: 8th April 2013 Read more →

Featured Tea Rooms

The English Tea Room at Brown's Hotel , London, , W1S 4BP
Brown's Hotel was created in 1837 by Lord Byron's butler and his wife, Lady Byron's maid, out of four adjacent Georgian houses. Keep reading →

The Tea Shop, Cornwall, Cornwall, PL27 7ND
Charming tea rooms serving only home-made food Keep reading →

Rectory Farm Tearooms, near Bude, Cornwall, EX23 9SR
A thirteenth-century farmhouse just ten minutes from spectacular Cornish cliffs Keep reading →

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Tea & Business

Featured Member: The Tea Guild
The Tea Council created the Tea Guild to promote high standards of preparing, serving and selling tea outside of the home. Membership to this exclusive and prestigious organisation is by invitation only. All establishments must fulfil exacting criteria and pass inspection at least once a year by professional tea tasters. Each tea place offers a... Read more

Tea Fact - 13/13

98%

As you like it...... 98% of people take their tea with milk, but only 30% take sugar in tea. More →

Tea Advisory Panel (TAP)

TAP The Tea Advisory Panel was created to provide media with impartial information regarding the health benefits of tea. Panel members include nutritionists; dieticians and doctors. For further information please call 0207 052 8989. Read more...

TEA a brief history...

Tea is so much a part of everyday life in Britain that we might never stop to think about how a unique plant from faraway China became the nation's favourite drink. But the history of tea is fascinating, and in this section we can follow its story from the earliest times in Imperial China right up to its present place at the heart of British life. Read more...