Cream teas

Uncle Henrys ,Grayingham Lincolnshire does delicious scones,the aroma when the cover is removed,makes your mouth water.

Living in South Somerset we have access to many great tea rooms. This one is a firm favourite, on the edge of Exmoor between Minehead and Porlock in a lovely setting.
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Book for a cream tea on the North Norfolk Railway. Proper china, lovely scone. Cream comes in a plastic pot, but isn't squirty! All served by smiley volunteers, on a line with views to die for!

Squirty isn't real cream, they should be done under the Trades Descriptions Act in my book! Try any of your local National Trust which have a restaurant, they always do a lovely cream tea with huge scones and a choice of jam and real cream. I've also had a devine savoury cream tea at Castle Drogo: a cheese scone, delicious soft potted cheese (Cornish I think it was), with lovely spicy chutney - just a suggestion for a variation. We spend a lot of time in Devon but I'm afraid I always do the Cornish version with jam first, keeping my back to the rest of the tea room in case anyone calls me out on it!

The best cream tea I have ever had was in Bath on our honeymoon! We were advised by our bank manager(?) To visit Sally Lynn's tea shop
They brought out a knife and fork !
Grandmattie nice to see someone else from my end of the country I grew up in Deal now I live in Dover

The best cream teas are in Cornwall or Devon and it must be clotted cream.
If you have time to go to Cornwall, in St Ives there is a lovely little cafe "Olives" they do superb cream teas, warm scones plenty of jam and clotted cream, and a gorgeous cup of loose leaf tea.Its a long way to go for it but is worth it.

I reckon the jam/cream controversy was a clever marketing ploy cooked up back in the day by GWR to get tourists shuttling back and forth between the two counties to sample both

I suspect not Greengran....they would probably imagine you had just rolled in from the Shetlands and didn’t know any better.

I have never understood how you can put jam on top of cream either, lemongrove, unless you put jam on one half, cream on the other, then sandwich them together. I wonder if it would keep the natives happy if you jammed first, then turned your scone upside down?

Having lived in both Devon and Cornwall...the only way that makes sense is jam first then cream! ( Dons tin hat.)

There are a few places in London do a Mad Hatter's Tea party.
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There are two wonderful places my end of Kent :- Princes Lodge at the Sandwich golf course - damask table cloth, silver teapot, the works for £14 ; the other for £20 at a tiny restaurant in Deal called “The Lane” which offers wonderful stuff. Both are online, both require booking. Good luck!

Fabulous homemade cream tea at Badgers Holt on Dartmoor and joy of joys, they produced a vegan version for my daughter who is post chemo. It made her day - and ours.

2nd House of Marbles.

lovebeigecardigans1955 still Cream first here in Devon, clotted of course. Plain scones not fruit ones, home made jam if possible.

Lots of lovely places here in Devon, near me House of Marbles do an excellent Cream Tea but be warned the scones are huge, you can order 1 or 2, I can't manage 2

Squirty cream YUK

We took my son and his fiance to Tir Hwnt ir Bont on their visit from Oz. It was in October and I was expecting to see it in all its Autumn glory as in Namsnanny's photo. Unfortunately, it was too late in the season and all the leaves had disappeared. We should have gone in September, apparently. Still a beautiful place and worth a visit for cream teas anytime.

Sounds like my winter soups, Witzend. You could stand a wooden spoon in the middle of the pan.

I've had many a cream tea in both Devon and Cornwall but the best sandwiches were at a little café/tearoom in Bourton-on- the-Water. I've never had the like of them since. Fresh roast beef and onion, a meal in itself.

ah Namsnanny- the Cotswolds were mentionned, and it did really look like Bibury

There are loads of places in Devon for a proper cream tea (and we've sampled most of them) but I've never been offered squirty cream.
If I recall correctly King's Garden Centre in Exmouth do a great cream tea, as does 'a la Ronde' which is just round the corner.
Now I don't want to start a fight but when we lived in Devon it was cream first.

The last cream tea I had was thousands of feet up in the air in an aeroplane coming home from Rhodes.........and very nice it was too.

Yes - it is after all 'the season of mists and mellow soupfulness' - certainly in this house, where thick main-course soups with stacks of seasonal veg/lentils/pearl barley etc. are often on the menu.

What a ‘souper’ idea travelsafar!

Now that Autumn is upon us why not change the scoring from cream teas to warming soups. Lots of places sell tasty homemade soup with crusty bread or rolls. This will give you another chance to have outings of the same vein

We often have tea in Tir Hwnt ir Bont* kittylester* , and we are off to Llanrwst tomorrow. The tea room usually closes for the winter at the end of October and is very susceptible to flooding. Love the Conwy valley

Squirty cream would bring the score down to 3 out of 10 for me!