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French and Fresh Bakery

No. 2 The Colonnade, High Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1QL.

Tea at French and Fresh Bakery

The French and Fresh Bakery always smells gorgeous when I walk past as they bake everything on the premises and bread cooking is a heavenly smell. The sign above the door says it’s a Boulangerie and Patisserie and it certainly smells like one. Inside there are rows of bread and tarts, cakes, quiches, pizza slices. The cakes and tarts start at around £3 and a baguette to eat in is £4, so I just stuck with my tea.

A pot of tea to drink in was £2 but the tea pot was relatively big  (the cup was huge, making the tea pot in the photo look all tiny, but that’s just a trick of the cup, I promise you) and it was a satisfying and relaxing tea drinking session.

Teapot? Yes.
Leaf tea? No, Twinings tea bag.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £2 for a pot.
Cake? Lots of good complicated cakes, tarts, quiches, salads, etc and biscuits in tins as well.
Go again? Yes.


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Le Pain Quotidien, Exhibition Road, London

15- 17 Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2HE

Tea in bowls at Le Pain Quotidien

Tea in bowls at Le Pain Quotidien

After our most excellent trip to the V&A we wandered down the road to find somewhere that had more tea and we chanced upon Le Pain Quotidien. This is a chain but we hadn’t come across it before. It had lots of good cakes and bread in the window which tempted us in and we stayed for tea, a meal and then desert.

The tea selection wasn’t that wide: breakfast, earl grey or fruit or herb teas. We picked breakfast tea and it came in bowls, which was a novelty for me and it tasted good in a bowl. We shared a platter of Italian meats and cheeses and lovely bread, then had fruit salad and the most decadently rich chocolate tart. I’d recommend it for an after V&A treat.

Teapot? Yes.
Leaf tea? Le Pain Quotidien brand teabag.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £2.50 each per pot.
Cake? Yes and deserts and tarts and breads and chocolate. Yum.
Go again? Yes.


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The Clock Restaurant

3, 4 & 5 Sandbeck Arcade, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE25 3DY.

Tea at the Clock Restaurant

Tea at the Clock Restaurant

I love the seaside. Ice cream and tea and fish and chips and sand and sea and fresh air: what’s not to love? I hadn’t been to the seaside for a while and BF very kindly let me drag him to Skeggy on New Year’s eve. After a walk on the beach and a nostalgic visit to Woolworths we tracked down the most promising fish and chip restaurant.

The Clock Restaurant is a traditional fish and chip restaurant with proper tables and a view of the sea (sort of, if you look round the roundabout). They also had the fantastic invention of a winter menu, so we got fish, chips, peas, bread and butter and a huge pot of tea for £6 instead of £9 something. Yummy.

Teapot? Yes.
Leaf tea? No.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £6 each for big meal and tea included.
Cake? No, but pudding and ice cream instead.
Go again? Yes.