NEWS
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
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
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 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
King John's Hunting Lodge , Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2LB
King John's Hunting Lodge is the oldest house in this rare, unspoilt Wiltshire medieval village of Lacock. Keep reading →
The Marshmallow Tearooms & Restaurant , Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, GL56 0AT
Grade II listed building complete with exposed stone walls, old pine furniture and pretty terrace. Keep reading →
Flying Fifteens, Suffolk, Suffolk, NR33 0QG
Seafront tea rooms by the award-winning South Beach Keep reading →
Odd Box
- Teetotal country-music singer-songwriter Jed Ford — wrote a song about his love of tea!
- The Strawkites — like a cup of tea... a nice cup of tea
- Video: Gilbert O'Sullivan — Where Would We Be (Without Tea)
- Tea: Fuel of the Nation (2012) — great short film about Britain's relationship with the iconic drink that is tea.
- Express FM's world famous 'Tea Spot' ran a competition with the UK Tea Council - — listen to the winners interview about their afternoon tea at The Dorchester.
- Band I LIKE TRAINS also like tea — so much so that they've made their own brand of tea - check the advert on YouTube...
- A Nice Cup Of Tea — song on YouTube
- Letting Off Steam — 3D animation by Nikki Atkinson about a woman who loves tea
- Tea with Mary Kate — Tea Tasting Adventure with James Pogson, Owner of Northern Tea Merchants
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor loves a cuppa — Matt Edmondson takes Sophie Ellis-Bextor on a date in a tea shop.
- BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme — Listen to Bill Gorman from the UK Tea Council talking about growth of tea consumption on BBC Radio 4.
- RAF man's loop-the-loop tea stunt for charity — How to not spill a drop of the precious stuff while in a plane...
- Did you know that you can fix a torn nail with a tea bag? — Here's how....
- High Tea — in London (photo)
- Making the perfect cuppa — with Jonathan Hudson Evans
- Green tea ice cream — recipe
- Tea Round — settles the argument of whose turn it is to make tea. (iPhone app)
- Crazy expensive — tea
- Tea Expert Jane Pettigrew — talks tea varieties
- Wired Magazine — Tea is the new coffee.
- Drinking tea with chopsticks in microgravity — You Tube video
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 - 9/13
A new arrival?
Arrived in Europe...... Tea firstly appeared in Europe thanks to Portuguese Jesuit Father Jasper de Cruz in 1560. More →
Gallery - send us your pictures!
The latest images of tea fans in action...
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Tea Advisory Panel (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...