Serves meat, vegan options available. Sister branch to Waterloo Gardens, Penylan. Offers breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea. Usually at least one vegan cake in the display cabinet, soya milk available for drinks, and at least two vegan breakfast (e.g. tofu scramble, avocado on sourdough), and 2 vegan lunch options (e.g. soup and bread, courgetti and pesto). Afternoon tea requires booking a day in advance which means vegans can be catered for. Free Wi-Fi. Open Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:00pm, Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 10:00am-5:30pm.
Categories: Vegan-friendly, Lacto, Ovo, British, Non-veg
3 Reviews
First Review by Spaghetti_monster
Contributions +57
Expensive but fascinating cup-of-tea choices - Edit
This is a specialist tea sellers, with all their tea sourced from particular estates, (and correspondingly expensive) and most of it organic - so high marks environmentally!
The staff are very knowledgeable about it and enthusiastic and helpful; it is clearly a place where you can order an expensive tea (and maybe a cake) and while away an hour or so reading or chatting to friends (their are some very comfy armchairs, etc.) They do a couple of vegan cakes every day which are delicious. However, whilst there are vegan choices at lunchtime (generally soups) they also serve meat and fish, so I would only recommend it at non-mealtimes (and lunch can go on until about 3.00, I was told). Very nice otherwise, though and easy to find - close to John Lewis.
Pros: Very nice atmosphere, Lovely teas, many rare chinese ones, Staff very knowledgeable about the teas
Cons: Quite expensive, Serve meat/fish at lunchtime
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Nice Salad and Cake - Edit
We had a yummy Lime and Lemon Cake, nice summer salad and the Rye with beets and avoided instead of cauliflower as they ran out. There were 2 vegan cake options, 2 open sandwich, 2 salads, 1 soup with bread. However Soup was not available on the day. Very busy area. There was a queue at the till. We had to pay before they serve us. Cake slice was nice but too small and quite expensive £3.90. Food portions were small. Nice as a once off.
Pros: Vegan Options
Cons: Expensive, Small portions, Long waiting time at till
Contributions +648
Tranquil vegan-friendly tea shop in Cardiff city centre - Edit
My Mum and I visited this tea shop 4 times on our 3 day visit to Cardiff due to the friendly staff, relaxing atmosphere, and well labelled vegan options. The vegan cakes (we tried the lemon and lime, and the chocolate avocado) were delicious, and the tofu scramble (with roasted peppers and avocado) was great for breakfast.
Pros: Great city centre location (near to but different , Tasty vegan options (especially cake and breakfast, Friendly staff
Cons: Currently no vegan sandwich options (but other veg
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