Monday, 31 October 2011

Marie-Antoinette’s tea room

Located at: 139 Church Street, Whitby - one of the town's busiest tourist shopping streets


Service: 10/10 - Friendly and efficient. We received a lovely welcome from the lady behind the counter and were directed upstairs to seating without delay. Our order arrived within minutes.


Ambience: 8/10 - Warm and welcoming. This is a small tea room but you feel snug rather than cramped. It might get noisy if busy, but we had our upstairs room to ourselves so it wasn’t an issue.


Interior: 8/10 - The furniture is a mixture of modern and vintage. The tables are rather small meaning we had to juggle cups, milk jugs etc to position our cake. I was particularly taken with this beautiful cake stand:


Food and drink: 10/10 - Top notch. A lovely pot of tea with a generous milk jug (I do rather like my tea milky). My toffee apple betty cake was a delight – crunchy biscuit base, creamy yet firm apple middle and a splendid soft and sticky toffee topping. I can say no more than I ran to the internet to see if I could find the recipe (alas, I couldn’t).


My companion had the banoffee pie and found the flavours good and strong and not too sweet.


Overall score:9/10


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