The Harrogate Tea Rooms

Chap gets a gong for being the most friendly, welcoming, genial and politest of persons. Nice little café upstairs in the arcade. Quiet, pleasant location. Very clean café. Homemade cakes all looked tempting. Really good range of loose leaf teas. The only thing to let it down was the frugal, meagre and skimpy serving of cheese on my "posh cheese on toast". What I had was lovely and tasty, but for the price, there really wasn't much cheese on it at all. Sorry to have to say that, as everything else was great. I would revisit now I know it's here, but cuppa and cake next time - the pistachio and almond cake looked especially good.

Wonderful Tea Rooms located inside Westminster Arcade on Parliament Street Harrogate A must visit when in town Good friendly service, ample seating There is a wide range of home baked cakes, scones, cupcakes and brownies and light meals and snacks including omelettes, Quiché, panninis and much more You can have the cakes packed to enjoy at home too I thoroughly enjoyed thr carrot cake which was amazing included fruit and ginger which was very tasty.. I bought a carrot cake cupcake when I left. The tearooms are featured in a local crime fiction book series by Malcolm Hollingdrake and the main character is known to frequent the tearooms in the novels. There is a range of the novels available to buy here too. Highly Recommended

Have to confess that we were hoping to go to Bettys but there was a queue! Saw a sign for this place so popped in. What a delightful little place. We were told there would be a short wait for the rhubarb and vanilla scone as it was just in the oven - can't get fresher than that! It was delicious, as was the cherry and sultana (very naughty and had jam and cream too). We had coffee (sorry!) as needed a boost before driving home to the Midlands but the tea selection looked interesting. A nice selection of home made cakes on display, all looked very tasty. The staff were really friendly, very nice visit.