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Mia JonesMia Jones

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The perfect place to spend the day now we are seeing a small glimpse of summer! This beautiful, historic orchard has to be one of the most quintessentially British places to visit for a cream tea. You can laze amongst the fruit trees in deckchairs, or take a stroll over to Byron Pool. Grantchester itself is a lovely little village and I love that you can reach it by punt from Cambridge if you wanted. Alternatively, if you are short on time then you can get a 50 minute train from Kings Cross to Cambridge and then take a 10 minute taxi over to the orchard. They serve their Rupert Brooke afternoon tea for £36pp but you can also stop off for a delicious cream tea with freshly baked homemade scones. Save this post and follow for more 🇬🇧 📍 The Orchard Tea Garden, Grantchester #cambridge #visitcambridge #grantchestermeadows #orchardteagarden #teagarden #teagram #quitessentiallybritish #britishcountryside #uktravel #uktravelblogger #placestovisit #countrysidelife #countrysideliving #lovegreatbritain #englandsbigpicture #prettylittleengland #escapetothecountry #ig_countryside #countryliving #wildflowermeadow #beautifulengland

lotteboolotteboo

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This is a little gem located in grantchester. Take a lovely walk to the tea garden from Cambridge and enjoy a light lunch or cream tea before strolling back. There's a very good selection of delights on offer. They offer a range of teas and milks, there's usually over half a dozen different cakes to choose from and they they provide gluten free! Now getting on to the coffee, so listen up coffee lovers. They once sold something that was meant to resemble "coffee" I use this term loosely, however now (June 2023) they've upped their game in serious style. Their coffee is simply some of the best in Cambridge! No this is not a joke. The grantchester tea gardens have great coffee! I would say it rivals hot numbers and bould brothers easily, but with much better surroundings. The only other place that is on par with the coffee at the grantchester tea garden, is in the flock cafe at Burwash manor in Barton. The food on offer is very nice and I don't know if it tastes better surrounded by lovely greenery but it's certainly good. The whole setting is lovely for meeting friends, enjoying it with family or just sitting with a book and enjoying the song of the birds. Well worth a trip. They're dog friendly and I recently had a cute pair of ducks come and sit by me. Definitely a little gem of a place. Bonus: the car park is currently free to patrons!

Cambridgeshire by airCambridgeshire by air

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We are tourists from out of town and found this gem through a google search. We booked for an afternoon cream tea. All the food is made in-house. The persons working provided phenomenal service and checked in with us regularly. There wasn’t a vegetarian option online, perhaps we could have warned them, but it might be an idea to have it as an option some day when booking on the website. We are loose vegetarians so it wasn’t much of a bother. We asked for more tea and they were happy to provide. They got us a bigger one with two tea bags for the two of us. The food was amazing, and the staff happily moved us outside as requested on the day. Other constructive feedback I would give: I think providing two sets of cutlery would be wonderful, one for savoury and one for sweet. A lovely little touch would be to have quirky china English tea pots cups and saucers to match the cream tea aesthetic. They are not expensive and would really add to the experience! I also think an option to “upgrade” the tea to a glass/bottle of wine would be a great upsell! We had a wonderful time and will be encouraging others to go. Thank you to the team for a wonderful experience

Abigail SAbigail S

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Scones are impeccable, to the extent that thinking about coming here for the scone can save me from cravings for scones at many other places (such as coffee chains). Ham and Cheddar Panini Melt was surprisingly tasty. The bread was crisp and thin (less carbs for me) and the cheese melts perfectly on the ham. The crisps were really crunchy. Coffee from automated machine. Nothing really to comment on without the injection of some human spirit. Not bad. Tea from Twining tea bags, which is a little sad for a tea garden, isn’t it? Food and drink is quite overpriced here, but it’s worth paying for the environment at the lovely and relaxing garden. — update 2023 Same lovely scones after change of hands. Lucky we made it a few minutes before closing and bought one of the last tray— warm out of oven. Inside the crunchy shell, it is moist yet indulgently crumbly, not too sweet. Still my favorite in Cambridge and among the top in my UK list. — Such a long line during the warm October Sunday afternoon. The scone is wonderful as usual. Warm, crusty, moist. A little richer and more salted-buttery than usual.

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Spacious and beautiful tea garden. We spent a couple of hours enjoying our cream tea and the outdoor garden. The food was good, the garden was lovely. To those who would like to visit—be prepared to spend substantial amount of time queuing and then looking for a place to sit since even in February it was challenging to find an unoccupied table. Pros Freshly baked scones with clotted cream and variety of jams Big and beautiful garden Picturesque pathways and surrounding areas, we walked to Cambridge after having a cream tea and enjoyed our little walk immensely Cons Queues 😑 Staff are here to mind the cash counter, you would beed to find a table and bring your trays there by yourself. Tbh, it’s not really a con, just a mild inconvenience but I almost dropped my tray since it was heavy and that’s an unpleasant memory. As tables and chairs are often located under the trees, don’t be surprised to see bird poo covering them. 😊

Ekaterina ZaytsevaEkaterina Zaytseva

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