Nestling in amongst the boutiques of Highgate's High Street, Hig Tea of Highgate is a great little tea shop serving homemade cakes and a very wide range of teas and hot beverages. From robust Earl Grey and Lapsang-Souchong to delicate Darjeeling and Lavender and Rosemary, if it goes in a cup you'll find it here. Cakes are baked daily in-house, and the shop itself is candy-coloured with lots of quirky art objects, many for sale. A great place to catch up with a friend.
By LiseS at 16:44 on 27/02/11
Nestling in amongst the boutiques of Highgate's High Street, Hig Tea of Highgate is a great little tea shop serving homemade cakes and a very wide range of teas and hot beverages. From robust Earl Grey and Lapsang-Souchong to delicate Darjeeling and Lavender and Rosemary, if it goes in a cup you'll find it here. Cakes are baked daily in-house, and the shop itself is candy-coloured with lots of quirky art objects, many for sale. A great place to catch up with a friend.
High Tea of Highgate on the High Street is a great place to go if you prefer your tea break with a touch of refinement. They sell some wonderful loose leaf teas, as well as British staples such as cream teas and homemade cakes.
By magicmeerkat at 15:23 on 18/08/10
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There a number of places that indulge in our love affair with the romance of 20-50s britian. The war years, the hardships, the old fashioned patriotism.
This is another fab caf that serves only tea and cake with mismatched china.
The girls that work here do seem a little bored, or dim, or a sweet combination of both, so you have to let them take their time to get things to your table, but it is tea time, so I suppose its ok to go a bit slow.
Loved the scones, and little potted tubs of clotted cream, with a huge saucer dish of sticky home made jam.
Dear High Tea of High Gate
Whenever I come you are full. Always, always completely full. Sometimes with a queue of people waiting for a table. So raise the prices already! It's not rocket science...
Three stars cos presumably the people who manage to get seats really like the place, disinclined to (ever) leave as they evidently are. But not four or five cos I just don't know what I'm missing.
By Seamus_McC at 15:24 on 10/02/10
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