Bettys Tea Rooms - Harrogate

Bettys Tea Rooms in Harrogate is the Mother of all tea rooms and every tea lover should at least step in once for the experience.

You must be wary that there is more than likely going to be a queue to get into the tea rooms, so for this reason we came up with a plan to go at around 4pm when amazingly there was only 1 person in front of us.

You are greeted by a lovely waiter who gives you a menu to look at while you wait and recommends the favourite dish of the day, in this case it was strawberry cream tea. He also asks you where you want to sit in either the Continental Cafe or the Tea Rooms, we chose the Tea Rooms. The decor in the Tea Rooms is wonderful and has the old world victorian quality and is very atmospheric. The only thing I thought was that the tables were a touch too close together when people were at the table next to us.

The service was fantastic and quick and wasn't as expensive as we thought it would be (however it is not cheap). I was a touch disappointed that the hot chocolate that was supposed to have whipped cream on it which wasn't there and my fat rascal (massive scone) was not warm as the menu had stated, apart from that we thought Bett's was top notch and well worth a look in, if not for anything else but the experience, and you can see why people queue outside to visit and take tea there.

We sampled:

• Hot Chocolate
• Yorkshire Cream Tea (Tea with two scones, jam and clotted cream)
• Yorkshire fat rascal

Our teacup rating for Betty's Tea Rooms is 5 out of 5.