V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL

The V&A is my favourite museum to go to in London. It’s a museum of design, so everything is useful or beautiful or both. I always get lost and end up finding something I didn’t expect to.

The cafe has lots of different counters with different foods and drinks, there’s a whole counter just for cake! There’s a choice of rooms to sit with your food and drink, including the original refreshment rooms with amazing decor, I spent ages just looking at the ceiling in the room we were in.

There was a wide variety of tea on offer including Orange Pekoe and Darjeeling 1st Flush and though it came in tea bags it was loose leaf in big muslin teabags. We had a lunch of quiche and salad which was excellent. Afterwards we sampled the date, banana and walnut cake and it was moist and tasty.

I would recommend the V&A for a visit and can tell you that the tea’s not bad either.

Teapot? Yes.
Leaf tea? Yes, in a little bag.
Milk jug? Yes and the option of a slice of lemon if you prefer.
Price? Around £2.10 for a pot for one.
Cake? Yes.
Go again? Yes.