This week on the tea blog-a-thon hostessed by La Tea Dah, we are to write about our favorite tearoom. I know this is going to sound vain or conceited, but I don’t mean to be. I have never been to a tearoom that has not disappointed me. Perhaps my standards or expectations are too high. Perhaps I am just spoiled like the princess and the pea. My mom and sister and I went to the Brown Palace in Denver last year for my birthday. Most of the experience was lovely. I enjoyed the live piano music, the ambiance, the service and the presentation. The sandwiches could have been tastier and they did not decant the tea. I have been to two local tearooms, one, the ambiance was very metaphysical (goddess stuff which I find so contrived and ridiculous) and the food was over priced, dried and and tasteless and the waitresses clumped around in their hard soled shoes on the bare wood floors. The other tearoom is closer to what I like in tearooms. It has good ambiance, decent food, and you can buy their teas and they also sell teapots. What don’t I like (because you should know by now there will be something!)? I don’t like the fact that all of their furniture needs reupholstered. The stuffing is coming out at the seams and they have pillows on the caned chairs so that your butt does not fall through the holes in the bottoms of the chairs. They do not decant their tea, nor do they have any sort of timer that comes with your teapot to let you know how long it has been brewing. Once you are served, the wait staff completely ignores you, even at their expensive afternoon tea and one waitress in particular always looks as if she’s been rolling around in the dirty dishes. See, aren’t I just the pickiest? So, what is my favorite tearoom? My house of course! lol
I can wear whatever I want, and I love the dishes on which the food is served.
When I was single, I never thought I would have uttered these words because I never cooked for myself, but I am a good cook. I also put care into my presentations when serving my food. I make sure there is enough food so no one goes away hungry (I do tend to over cook the quantities and can end up with much more than what is needed). Even my husband prefers my cooking to going out and when the other two couples offer to bring food for home group night, I usually end up wishing I had cooked because take out just does not taste that great. So see? I am sure some of you reading this are probably rolling your eyes to the heavens, but I do take pride in what I have accomplished in my kitchen. I have gone from single working girl, standing over my sink eating tuna from a can, to a some what skilled cook, willing to experiment and try new things which is its own reward. Even if the recipe does not turn out, at least I tried.
There was one other tearoom though that I did enjoy whole heartedly and that is the one I worked at a few years back. The woman who owned it is a skilled cook and I learned somethings from her that have stayed with me over the last few years.
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