Cellarium

This was pretty disappointing overall. The service was fine. However, I had hoped to eat down in the pretty, white cellarium area, but they put us upstairs in a standard café looking setting, which I’ve now learned is their ‘Terrace’ area. The Terrace is fine, but is not worth going out of your way for. Most importantly, the menu options weren’t that enticing and actual food left a lot to be desired; either lacked flavor or was (dare I say) way too sweet.

It’s a small place but cool sitting in a place that’s been around since the 1400s. Not the best scones or smoked salmon sandwiches but the rest is very good. Price extremely reasonable and service quite good. Kids eat free!

Coffee was fine. Piece of chocolate cake to share. VERY dry. I am sure it was day old cake. I talked to the waiter about it, he told me they bring the cakes out and the air through the Abbey dries out the cakes. Well, maybe they should get a cake cover, or don’t serve old cake. Tea was great, appreciated the different sugar cubes to use.

This is one of the stops I’d been looking forward to for months. I know it’s silly, but I really wanted to take Afternoon Tea here, on the grounds of Westminster Abbey. It was to be my first Afternoon Tea, and I wanted it to be special, without being overly dressy.
The café itself is beautiful. It’s in the former store house of the Abbey, and it’s open and bright, and very comfortable to lounge in. There aren’t many tables within the café itself, as it’s small — much smaller than I had anticipated. But, they weren’t very busy when we got there, so we had no problem being shown to a table.
The tea was delicious, and the small assortment of cakes, scones and sandwiches were just enough to chase our hunger pangs away. My husband fell in love with the clotted cream, and I was quickly defeated by the two scones on offer. I couldn’t finish everything!
Our waitress was friendly enough, but she wasn’t around as often as I would have liked, especially given the fact that the restaurant wasn’t that busy that day. It wasn’t such a big deal, but I would have liked a better explanation of what was on our tea trays, and wanted to ask for another pot of tea.
Despite all that, I really did enjoy both the meal and the surroundings. It’s an experience I won’t be forgetting any time soon.

What a fantastic little café! Having tea and cake in here was really quite a treat and it’s amazing that there is a café within the walls of Westminster Abbey (the café was opened recently in 2012). The service was quite good and the tea was everything I hoped a cup of proper English tea would be. The cakes were great too (especially the glazed lemon cake) and it was really a nice experience. They do have full meals here if you’re hungry and I highly, highly recommend it, even if it’s just to eat in a room that’s from the 1400s!