Shipp's Tearooms

LOVEANDKATE

LIKE A REAL TRIP BACK IN TIME WITH YOUR NAN 30th August 2008

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I booked a table here for my 27th birthday on a Sunday and was really excited as it looked beautiful and is near the fabulous borough market and fantastic cheese shop.

However quaint, beautifully, sweet, dainty and authentic as it is----the food wasn't up to much. I ordered a cheese sandwich aswell as speciality teas and cakes and it was literally a hunk of cheese slapped in a bit of mighty white cut into triangles [as if your nana had made it whilst you watched corrie repeats with her].

The cakes were very sweet and definitely traditional in look aswell as taste. i had a gooseberry and custard tart with a thick sugar glaze over it. Nice but not wonderful and rather overpriced due to surroundings.

However the service was great, the tearooms itself is very sweet and has crockery hanging from the wall, tables are laid with doilies and pretty granny things that contemporary living ignores these days.

Each tea ordered came in a different granny te pot with a silver tea stained spoon and sugar lumps!!

If I was to go again I'd probably get the cream tea as this appeared to be the best value for money, taste and authenticity. The teas were also interesting and nothing beats a pot of strong assam.

This place is fab but be careful what ypou order to make the experience a treasured one- one to take your gran, mum or girlfriends as my boyfriend couldnt understand the cheese sandwich incident and wasnt bothered about the doilies!!!

LOVEANDKATE at 16/09/08

Alas, I went here with my mum last weekend and they were having a crockery sale!!!

Its now closed forever! : (

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