The Harrogate Tea Rooms was the third venue for my Cream Tea tasting. It was located on the first (second in the US) floor of Westminster Arcade, a historic Victorian shopping arcade, originally opened in 1898. Although cream tea is a form of afternoon tea, I thought of having one for breakfast. Why not? Around 9:30am, I was apparently the first customer of the day. Nobody was there. There wasn't "cream tea" on the menu. I ordered a scone with jam and cream and tea separately. A young lady told me she just opened the kitchen and would start baking scones which would take time. I didn't mind. While my scone was in the oven, she brought me a pot of tea, their regular tea = Yorkshire Tea.
My scone showed up. It was plain. I guess their regular scone was plain, without raisins. The scone was very warm, which I expected. Very light but not as airy as Jennys, maybe. The cream was served very chilled, like Bettys. Jam was just a jam. Overall, the cream tea experience here was very nice but not so impressive. Probably I just got tired of continuous testing, notably without J.
