Queen Mary Tea Room

If you’ve hung around this blog, or our Twitter feed, you know Kate & I are pretty much complete tea fiends. I recently had a wonderful tea party at the Queen Mary Tea Room in the Ravenna neighborhood.

My BFF/housemate from grad school is also a tea fiend, lives in Seattle and her birthday’s at the end of April. After much discussion of “how should we celebrate?” she finally hit upon the idea of having fancy afternoon tea.

(Deb’s the one in the tiara that spells out: “QUEEN”)

I ordered lemon chiffon rooibos, and she ordered hazelnut honeybush, also a rooibos tea. Both were outstanding. In fact, Deb & I were both compelled to buy a bag of the hazelnut honeybush to enjoy at home, it was that good. She was smart enough to buy hers on the spot. I let the memory of it haunt me for days before I had time to go back for mine!

Are you looking at that amazing arrangement of food on the tiered plate between us? Here, let me offer you a close up.

It. Was. FANTASTIC. And did you see the lovely teacup in my hand? Here, let me offer you a close up:

Talk about charming! I’m so exited for Kate’s next trip up to Seattle. I am SO taking her here. (I am looking forward to it! -K)