The Secret Garden Tea Room

Last Friday, while visiting my sister in San Francisco, we visited the The Secret Garden Tea House, near Golden Gate Park with my two nieces. They reveled in the dress-up accessories that were available.

The girls (aged five and almost three) ordered the Princess Tea, which consisted of Ghiradelli hot chocolate, peanut butter and jelly tea sandwiches, teddy-bear shaped cinnamon toast, a pig in a blanket, a petit four, and a mini iced brownie. My sister order a lox plate, and I went for the full "Bedford" afternoon tea, which came with six different tea sandwiches, a little savory croissant, and several tea pastries including a delicious macaroon. And of course, there was the traditional scone with devon cream and preserves.

The food was great, and the girls had an absolutely lovely time, although they required a lot of supervision with all of the breakable bits that decorated the cute little shop. But unfortunately, the service was terrible. We were the only customers, and there was a single waitress. In her defense, she was quite young and probably the owner's daughter. But she was quite clueless and a little slow. When she brought out my tiered food display, she neglected to bring me plants for one.

Next time: What did we learn from the mysterious woman who came into the shop while we were there?

Comments

[dede]

I went there for tea sometimes, yes! their tea and food are delicious, and most of the time when I was there, their service was quite prompt. On the weekends they have a lot more servers, all young girls, pretty sweet too. I don't know if any of them are their daughters, but they are all about the same age, so I guess not.
I sure hope they will hire someone to replace that bad apple, it's a shame to have someone like that to bring the rest of the hard workers down.