Tea with Mrs. B — Restaurant in Falls Church

It has taken me to a month to cool down and write this review, I don’t even know where to begin. First, Mrs.B insulted my daughter and I in front of the rest of the entire group multiple times, with her quirky little ways of correcting people. We found her insulting, and quite frankly hurtful. She even insulted one of her hosts in front of everyone and made her take off her sweater because it was “taking away from the vintage dress” Mrs. b had made her wear. My daughter ended up crying in the car because of the way she embarrassed her multiple times during this event. Second, the Santa—-and truly my biggest hurt and honestly something my daughter will never get over, told her that what she was asking for for Christmas she shouldn’t. She was asking for a snowboard and he told her because she’s never done it before and she doesn’t know if she would be good at it so she shouldn’t ask for it. Are you kidding me? My daughter is extremely athletic and now every time this season she has been learning to snowboarded she hears him in her head telling her she can’t. At the end of our snowboarding day today, she said mom every time I buckled in, in my head I heard Santa saying I wasn’t good… No child should ever have to experience that. 3rd… this event and facility is recommended for girls under 5 (at oldest) no where in the website does it say that so when we showed up we were shocked, instead of the hosts adapting they treated our girls rudely and as an inconvenience because they were older. Lastly, when booking our reservation, we were supposed to have 1.5 hours there. With more than 20 minutes left to go, the entire staff started clearing our unfinished plates and stacking our chairs right out from under us. I am not even touching on the food and tea in this post because all the other problems are way more significant. I do not...

Because of the pandemic, me and Mrs B pivoted from being in-person at her beautiful tea room to being online, so we could offer her community a Magical Math Tea Party.

Mrs. B’s clear, direct emails to her list of raving fans and long-time repeat customers led to 27 people registering for our math tea party for 3rd graders and up and 57 people registering for our tea party for 1st and 2nd graders—a total of 84 registrations!

Then, without me even asking, Mrs B sent out hand written notes in the mail (with one of her beautiful branded tea bags tucked inside the envelope) to everyone who had registered! OMG!!! This made everyone feel so special and also excited to attend!

At the actual events, over 80% of those who registered actually attended, and almost everyone stayed for the entire hour, which is absolutely phenomenal for a virtual event for kids, especially right now.

During the events themselves, Mrs. B has an innate gift for understanding and connecting to young children, really engaging them in a way that is lighthearted and delightful, that leaves them feeling energized and happy.

I’ve done versions of this presentation by myself all over the country for the past five years, and collaborating with Mrs. B in this new way made me so much more excited about sharing this offering in this new magical math tea party format!

I haven’t even been to Mrs. B’s tea room yet, but she and her magical tribe of sparkly, imaginative, well-mannered children and their parents have already knocked my socks off.

Rebecca Zook, Professional Math...

I tried to book with this venue and the owner, Mrs. B, was extremely rude and unprofessional on the phone. My mom and I wanted to host a baby shower here and asked to see the venue in person for even 5 minutes. She refused at the current time, even with my offer to accommodate their schedule in any way. I have never heard of a professional venue not offering a time for clients to come see it, especially when they ask for a non-refundable $250 deposit. Simply unprofessional and disappointing! This woman has some business and customer service skills to learn. It is ironic, in my opinion, that she gives classes and lessons on manner etiquette, but yet with me, she had no manners at all. I don't care how nice a venue is. If this is how an owner treats her clients, this is not somewhere I care to bring my guests. We will gladly take our business (and money) elsewhere!

My mom and I had difficulty for some time finding a venue closeby so I reached out and asked if we could make it work with the Mrs. B owner. I even offered to delete my reviews. Thank goodness I did not because we found a venue near us with an incredibly respectful and gracious owner. We are so excited to host here! And I feel that others wanting to have a great affair while also feeling respected should be aware of...