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Top Tea Places 2013

The Tea Guild's Top Tea Awards

The Tea Guild has 3 different categories of membership and each category is judged annually to determine which venue in each category has won the TOP prize, considered to be the "Oscar" of the tea world and which members have achieved an Award of Excellence, considered to be the "Michelin Star" of the tea world:

Tea Room members are venues around mainland UK, excluding London, and each member is automatically entered into the annual Tea Guild Top Tea Place Award competition. Judging by The Tea Guild's expert and, always, incognito Inspectors takes place each year in late summer and early autumn. The results are announced, and The Top Tea Place Award presentation takes place, the following spring.

City and Country Hotel members are venues throughout mainland UK, excluding London, and each member is automatically entered into the annual Tea Guild Top City and Country Hotel Tea Award competition. Judging by The Tea Guild's expert and, always, incognito Inspectors takes place each year in the autumn. The results are announced, and The Top City and Country Hotel Tea Award presentation takes place, the following spring.

London members are hotels, large and boutique, and tea rooms based in the city of London and each member is automatically entered into the annual Tea Guild Top London Afternoon Tea Award competition. Judging by The Tea Guild's expert and, always, incognito inspectors takes place each year in late autumn. The results are announced, and The Top London Afternoon Tea Award presentation takes place, the following spring.

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Featured Tea Room

Featured Tea Room

Tisanes Tea Rooms , Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7AA
Tisanes Tearooms is set in a pretty 17th century building of warm, honey-coloured Cotswold stone at the lower end of Broadway high street. Read more →

Tea & Business

Featured Member: Ringtons Ltd
Ringtons are one of the largest tea producers in Britain today. Over 90 years of experience has enabled us to develop some of the finest and freshest blends available. Primarily a door to door operation, our sales network covers most of Britain - from Edinburgh to East Anglia - and our service is currently enjoyed by over 300,000 customers. In... Read 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...