All About Tea Rooms and Tea
Margaret Thornby’s Guide to Tea Rooms of Britain was first published by Whitehill Publishing in 1995 and it remains with the same publisher today for each subsequent edition. Some things have changed in the production of the Guides, such as attention to the availability of access for disabled people in the tea rooms, dietary needs and a focus on loose leaf teas.
The tea room book is not meant to be a table-top guide but a book that can be taken with you on your travels. Perhaps you are off for a weekend in the Lake District and fancy visiting a few good tea rooms whilst you are there. But where to find them? The tea room guide is just the book to help you. Tea rooms are listed in regional areas and then by town or village in that region, for example:
Cumbria: Ambleside.
Many people who have bought the Guide to Tea Rooms have found it useful and informative:
I wouldn’t go anywhere without the Guide. The research is well done and that means I can rely on the quality of the tea rooms.
We went on holiday to Wales without the Guide and what a disaster! We found numerous places calling themselves tea rooms but none up to Margaret Thornby’s standards.
Thanks to Margaret Thornby for a great little book. I take it on all my travels.