Tasty Victorian treats at the seaside

The Victorian Tea Room is located on the premises of the Yesterday’s World Victorian Experience, a museum that showcases all kinds of paraphernalia related to daily life during Victorian times. The museum’s tea room is, together with their souvenir shop, located on the ground floor and both are open to the public without admission fee. While the museum was nice enough I really do not need to visit it every time I come to Great Yarmouth unlike their Tea Room where a visit has become a bit of a family tradition.

The Victorian tea room can be found directly in the middle of Great Yarmouth's Marine Parade, just opposite of the golden, sandy beach, not far from the pedestrian zone and in between a myriad of "entertainment venues" - which are nothing else but gambling halls - slap bang in the middle of everything.

The tea room covers the whole left side of the ground floor and decorated with Victorian prints, furnishings and china. The Victorian costumes of the waiting personnel were a hit with the kids and just add to the originality of the place.

 There is no need to wait to be seated and orders are taken at the table but you will need to go to the counter to pay. The menu offers typical Victorian specialties which consist of a large selection of daily fresh home-made cakes, sandwiches, cream tea and the traditional afternoon tea we are after.
Drinks include a variety of teas, coffees, soft drinks and then there is some ice-cream.

We always order the afternoon tea, at least for the husband and me, the kids are sometimes too tempted by their cake selection and they know that there will be enough on our plates to share.
What you get, and for a very reasonable price, is a 3-tier cake platter with a very generous amount of sandwiches. We’ve had tuna, salmon, ham, cheese and egg and all were very tasty, generously filled and fresh. The second tier will be a selection of cakes which so far has never disappointed, although their lemon cake is a little bit too lemony for my taste, while the husband loved it.
Last but not least you will find fresh scones with cream, butter and a wonderful jam to round up your meal. I’m crazy about scones and love the fact that they are huge plenty of space to pile the cream and jam on! Yummy!
We both like to eat but the whole portion is so large that there are always some sandwiches for the kids left over, who do not mind helping to finish them off at all!

I do not drink tea so we always get a pot of tea and a pot of coffee. The china they use is very pretty and there is enough for two cups in each pot.
The children have tried their chocolate fudge cake, the carrot cake and the ice-cream sundae and loved everything.

We all love the place, not just for the food but also the ambience and can only recommend a visit. Whatever we’ve ordered so far was fresh, very tasty and served quickly by a smiling and friendly waitress and at a very reasonable price too. What else could you wish for?

The only negative thing I can say about this place is that during our last visit in winter the room was slightly too cold and we had to keep our jackets on. Not so comfortable to eat with a thick winter jacket on.


http://www.yesterdaysworld.co.uk/great-yarmouth/victorian-tea-room/