Please note: Cream Tea Review is now retired from active service. The reviews on this site were written between 2013 and 2019, and some establishments may since have changed ownership, menus or cream tea configuration. Waistline-related observations, however, remain historically accurate.
What would be the point of reviewing and scoring all of these cream teas, if we didn’t then provide a league table showing our results? So, here is an up-to-date table covering the all of the establishments reviewed so far on this site.
Highly Recommended
10 ~ Trumpet Corner Tea Room BEST TEA SHOP
9.5 ~ Peacocks Tearoom, Ely
9.5 ~ Number Twelve Restaurant BEST GENERAL CAFE/RESTAURANT
9.5 ~ The Old Forge Caffe & Restaurant, Chagford
9.5 ~ Havershams, Beverley
9.5 ~ Byways Tearooms, Bakewell
9.5 ~ The Gallery, Fortnum & Mason, London
9.5 ~ Tiny Tim’s Tearoom, Canterbury
9.5 ~ The Searoom, St Ives
9 ~ Lion Rock Tea Tooms, Cheddar Gorge
9 ~ Periwinkle Tea Room, Selworthy
9 ~ Teaspoon Tea Company, Grantham
9 ~ Fitzbillies, Cambridge
9 ~ St Pancras Renaissance, London BEST HOTEL
9 ~ West Lodge Park Hotel, Hadley Wood
9 ~ Bettys Cafe Tearooms, York
9 ~ The Polly Tearoom, Marlborough
9 ~ Thea Caffea, Nottingham
9 ~ Little Harriettes of Deal, Deal
8.5 ~ Bakehouse, St Albans
8.5 ~ High Tea of Highgate
8.5 ~ Tea Total, Lyndhurst
8.5 ~ Chocolate Theatre Cafe, Henley-on-Thames
8.5 ~ Four Pillars, Cotswold Water Park
8.5 ~ Kelmscott Manor Tearoom, Glocs BEST CAFETERIA-STYLE CAFE
8.5 ~ Vaults and Garden Cafe, Oxford
8.5 ~ The Almonry, Ely Cathedral
8.5 ~ Brewbabu, Oundle
8.5 ~ Scrumalicious, Sandwich
8.5 ~ Cranks Garden Restaurant, Dartington
8.5 ~ Lanhydrock House, Servant’s Restaurant BEST NATIONAL TRUST CREAM TEA
8.5 ~ The Magazine at Sackler Serpentine, London
8.5 ~ The Bridge Tea Rooms, Bradford-on-Avon
8.5 ~ Biddies Tearoom, Norwich
8.5 ~ Cross Lane House, Allerford
8.5 ~ Syke Farm Tearoom, Buttermere
8.5 ~ Beck Hall Hotel, Malham
8.5 ~ Mr H’s Tearoom, Ambleside
Good
8 ~ The Georgian Tearooms, Portsmouth
8 ~ The Courtyard Restaurant & Cafe, Faversham
8 ~ Turner Contemporary Cafe, Margate
8 ~ Harriets Cafe Tearoom, Cambridge
8 ~ Barn Restaurant, Baddersley Clinton
8 ~ The Orchard Garden, Grantchester
8 ~ The Butler’s Pantry, Richmond Park
8 ~ Urban Brunch, Yeovil
7.5 ~ Cliff Top Cafe, Lynton
7.5 ~ Tiptree Tearoom, Tiptree
7.5 ~ Locks Victorian Tea Rooms, Dunster
7.5 ~ The Chocolate Factory Coffee Shop, Mullion
7 ~ Dillon’s Tea House & Cafe, Ashbourne
7 ~ Lobster Pot, Portland Bill
7 ~ Lempicka Cafe & Bistro, Beverley
7 ~ The Crypt Cafe, St Paul’s Cathedral
7 ~ Waterfront Cafe, Benson
7 ~ Palace Cafe, Kensington Palace
7 ~ Surf Shack Cafe, St Ives
7 ~ Basildon Park Tearoom
7 ~ Canalside Farm Cafe, Great Haywood
7 ~ Hitchin Lavender Tearoom
7 ~ Beatons Tearooms, Crowthorne
7 ~ The Chantry Tea Gardens, Kilve
7 ~ The Manders’ Tearoom, Wightwick
7 ~ The Old Station Tea Rooms, Holmsley
7 ~ Edwardian Tearooms, Birmingham
7 ~ Abbot’s Kitchen, St Albans Abbey
7 – Bournville Bread Basket
7 – The Giggling Goose, Ambleside
7 ~ Cellarium Cafe Terrace, Westhminster Abbey
7 ~ The Doll’s House on the Hill, Harrow
7 ~ Capabilitea, Trentham
7 ~ Blondies Twisted Tearoom, Hanley
7 ~ Sally Middlewood Tea Rooms, Potter Brompton
6.5 ~ Orangery, The Fan Museum Greenwich
6.5 ~ Bea’s of Bloomsbury, St Paul’s, London
6.5 ~ Wallet’s Court, St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe
6.5 ~ The Mock Turtle, Brighton
6.5 ~ Olives Cafe, St Ives
6.5 ~ Bells’ Tea & Coffee House, Lincoln
6.5 ~ Darlingtons Tea Rooms, Northampton
6.5 ~ Apple Tree Tea Rooms, Minehead
6.5 ~ The Copper Kettle, Andover
6 ~ Nuffield Place, NT Tearoom, Huntercombe
6 ~ Great Tower Cafe, Dover Castle
6 ~ BB Bakery, County Hall, London
6 ~ Baskervilles, Palmers Green, London
6 ~ The Original Maids of Honour, Kew
6 ~ The Flour Station Bakery, Camden