On a spring morning in 1897, a group of students asked the landlady of The Orchard House if they could take tea under the apple trees instead of the front garden, as was the norm. The Orchard, Grantchester, near Cambridge : 1897 Photo Credit (Clockwise from top left) : Blue Ribbons Celt | Wikipedia | New World Encyclopaedia | Wikipedia 14. The Willow Tea Room is currently closed for extensive renovations and is due to open in 2018 The Willow Room. Following her death in 1917, her husband sold the business and it has since changed several hands – from a jewelery shop to a supermarket – but a gallery on the first floor continued to serve tea. When the doors opened in 1904, The Willow Tea Room was fitted out in the most fashionable style of the time – whether it was panelling, furniture, upholstery, cutlery, menus, or even the waitress uniforms. Inspired by the temperance movement which became rather popular in Glasgow at the turn of the 20th century, a Miss Cranston conceived the idea of a series of “art tearooms”, venue where people could meet to relax and enjoy a cuppa tea in a variety of different “rooms” within the same building. The Willow Tea Room, Glasgow, Scotland | 1904 What a wonderful gesture, especially in the spirit of a shared love for travel & tea. Here’s to several adventures, vintage gems, love, life and all things spinning….Ī special thanks to one of my favourite instagrammers who made the time to especially visit the Tea House by Firuzağ a Mosque in Istanbul and take the pictures for this blog. We have standards to uphold on this blog, after all… However, it didn’t make our list because it only opened in 2015. Apparently Tim Peake, a British astronaut, took his teapot with him and created a rather cozy corner on the space station to enjoy his afternoon cuppa. On an aside, have you heard about the most unusual tea room on the planet? Or rather, not on the planet considering it’s atop the International Space Station. The object of this exercise is to find places that are not just steeped in history but still operational and continuing to serve their own brand of vintage tea. Let’s sip a fine brew then and take a tour of 15 of the oldest tearooms in the world: from the most recent in Glasgow, Scotland to the oldest in Kyoto, Japan. The oh-so-proper tea with scones and clotted cream in England could not be more different from a bunch of friends lingering for hours, chatting, laughing and smoking shisha in Egypt. Think about this for a minute, my fellow tea enthusiasts. And during my research on the history of teapots for my other post – the eccentric teapot – I was fascinated by how tearooms change from country to country. Monty Python’s (rumoured) words echo my feelings. And you.” – Sanobar Khan, A Thousand Flemingos
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