Holly Berry Tea Room — Restaurant in League City

My recommendation is to try it. Bring a few friends. Order a variety of items. Chat with the proprietor. Several of my friends rave about this place. They would rate it a five out of five stars. Here's my experience: I passed the parking lot on my first visit. The building is set back in a group of house-like shops. (That's an FYI, not a ding on the restaurant.) Parking is free. If you have several "curvy" or broad shouldered guests, I recommend that you call in advance and explain that you will need "wiggle room" in your seating. Bonus - The back room is used for tea parties and allows dress-up. I plan to return with my younger grandchildren for a tea party. That said... I was warmly greeted and shown to my table before my entire party was present. I really appreciate that because there is always that one person with poor time management. Our party of four was allowed to order and pay separately. The tables are smallish. Servings were plated. This is NOT high tea with multi tiered serving platters. I ordered the quiche, salad, and sticky toffee pudding. I enjoyed them. The iced tea was good. Was the quiche beyond incredible with flaky, tender crust and melt in your mouth "OMG!" Goodness? It was fine; a touch better than average. The salad's produce was fresh. The pricing was on the high side of moderate for the quiche portion size. The sticky toffee pudding was made with care and pride. I felt terrible that I found it to be "just-okay." It wasn't the preparation. It was the cake's recipe. (I love a denser, moister, spicier, rich cake with a deeper flavored sauce -vs- tooth achingly sweet on sweet single flavor versions.) It is hard to find in our area. Try Whiskey Cakes version for comparison. My friends enjoyed their sandwiches. I will return on a less crowded day and try the sampling of tea...

My friends and I visited this place in Feb 2022 to try a new tea place. It was quaint and had different rooms with 3 to 4 tables in each. There's Alice and Wonderland pictures everywhere which is cute but a but childish to me. The menu was pretty straightforward. I ordered a jasmine lemonade which tasted like jasmine with lemons in it lol but it wasn't bad, very fragrant. I ordered a portobello sandwich...it was different. I didn't expect the mushroom to be on bread and act as the meat🤯 I was expecting something between two mushrooms. It wasn't the best amd I was disappointed but good experience. The salad was pretty good but coulda done without the many carrots on top. The bread sticks were pretty good but with a sandwich, ya don't need bread sticks. What is that. Their sandwiches come with veggie chips which I was not fond of at all. The dull colors of the chips threw me off, considering the sandwich had fresh veggies. Seemed like a cheap way to include a standard side. I woulda preferred chips of my choice but it's cool. The raspberry custard was strange to me but i dont like the flavor anyways🤷🏽‍♀️ so I didn't eat it. My friends ordered tea but there weren't teas from different lands like other tea places I've visited. This place has a tea holder with a variety of teas, that was stuffed to capacity but they all came from a grocery store. Which was tacky. I could have bought a box of my own tea instead of paying $3 for the same experience. Maybe a place for locals but I'll pass...

Do I recommend the atmosphere and enjoy the cutesy photos of my child? Absolutely. Do I enjoy attitude and rudeness from the owner? That would be a negative. I am easy going to understand when a place is busy to give them a moment to regroup. But when I ask for a refill of a tea pot and 20 mins goes by… and I get up to go to them to ask for a refill… I even expressed that I understood that they are busy at the time. But we have 4 girls getting a one tea pot refill. The icing to the whole situation was having the owner/waitress ask me if we needed anything else, to which I ask for the second refill (final refill) in the tea pot, for her to grab the tea pot, roll her eyes and walk away. Why ask? Why ask me at all if I needed something? At checkout, I asked you if I was the problem, if my child and her friends were the problem. And you proceeded to tell me no, why would I think that? So I explained that I felt like a bother asking for refills in tea pots for the girls and receive the eye roll. And you proceeded to state well you got 4 refills in a row. No, we didn’t. That’s incorrect. We weren’t needy, we didn’t ask for much but your response made us feel like we were such a burden to your business. And then to hear you say as I walk out the door “that was unnecessary of me”. Be better. Be kinder. An apology for the eye roll would have been...