Tealicious House, Dunsborough
29 July 2008
There’s just something about a Devonshire or High Tea that makes one’s afternoon just lovely. The quiet conversations are somehow more relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable over a nice hot cup of aromatic tea and delicious itty-bitty morsels.
We happened to find out about Tealicious House at the information centre in Busselton and made a booking for the next day.
Having been to the usual tea room haunts (namely The Tea Room at the QVB and The Victoria Room in Darlinghurst), we thought we knew what to expect – we were pleasantly proven wrong.
Tealicious House offers about 47 different flavours of tea, where a small glass container sits besides each tea package for customers to smell. It took us a while to choose our own tea and after they had been chosen, we were served a complimentary sample of the tea of the day.
Partial tea wall
Summer, the owner, told us that our second pot of tea (each) were also complimentary. Our eyes just bugged at the thought and greedily plotted which tea to try next – even before our first pots of tea arrived!.
2 Cake Stands for 4 Hungry Girls
While the clotted cream and strawberry conserve were delish on the luke-warm scones, the rest of our fare was just above average. Not quite memorable, but I thought quantity was quite generous (though the rest of the girls thought it was normal serving per person). It never looks like a lot when the cake stands comes out, but we were pretty close to bursting at the sides by the time Summer came around with our second pots of brewed tea.
French Earl Grey
Summer recently opened the tea-house in February last year and she’s been really surprised by the response they’ve been getting. We weren’t too surprised: spoilt for choice with the available variety of teas, the (seemingly) gargantuan serving of food, the sunny and relaxing atmosphere, and the top-notch service (they’re my new benchmark for “service with a smile”)… why wouldn’t anyone want to come back? (Besides the fact that it’s in Western Australia and about 4 or so hours from Perth)
The High Tea cost us $30 per person – something we felt was definitely at a bargain price, as we bid Summer good-bye and rolled out of her tea-house.
Tealicious House
Shop 2/237 Naturaliste Terrace
Dunsborough, WA 6281
Ph: (08) 9755 3308
squishies
I have been here and even if you are extremely fussy with your tea (as I am) you will find a tea to please here. I lucky to live in Perth so is not unheard of to drive this far for the week end. I stumbled across these guys while on a 2nd honeymoon with my husband. My husband was dead against having a high tea and only went to humour me, but even he agreed it was lovely. He’s a dyed in the wool coffee man and found a tea that he loved. So much so we brought some home with us.