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The Spring Inn

Bath Road, Sulhamstead, Reading, RG7 5HP

Tea and coffee and J's apple crumble

The Spring Inn is a pub I have driven past many times but never visited until today. The food was very good, though quite a limited selection and the tea came on a tray with a crisp white cloth on it. There’s outside seating, a mix of picnic tables and proper tables with big parasols.

Teapot? Yes.
Leaf tea? No.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £2.
Cake? Apparently you can have cake or scones on weekdays, on Sunday when I went there was pudding. Though it did come with a heavenly shortbread.
Go again? It’s a nice pub, so I’d go again, but not worth a trip just for the tea.


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Cafe Giardino

24A, Upper Level, The Oracle Centre, Broad Street, Reading, RG1 2AQ

Tea and a shiny table at Cafe Giardino

Cafe Giardino is just inside the Oracle, and has a range of food and drink. It’s got jacket potatoes and salads and main meals and cake and pastries and coffee and tea. It was a hot day and I wanted somewhere quiet to sit and write, Cafe Giardino gave me that and it gave me tea in a pot.

Teapot? Yes.
Leaf tea? No.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £1.50.
Cake? Yes, and pastries.
Go again? Yes, the tea was okay and quite cheap for the centre of town, plus it was quiet with big tables.