Le Chandelier

Afternoon tea
Food: wonderful selection of sandwiches, pastries, and scones. My favorite was the ham and mayo sandwich, and pumpkin cake. The blue sapphire earl grey tea is fragrant and light. Nice complement to the good.
Service: nice and friendly staff. They let you take your time with the food and relax when you’re done.
Price: 18 gbl for afternoon tea is a treat.
Last word: go with friends/​family/​significant other and walk around the charming neighborhood!

We visit Le Chandelier whenever we feel the need for tea and cakes in a calm, relaxing atmosphere (I like the comfy chairs opposite the cake display — a good spot from which to choose cakes two and three if you’re in for the long haul). The selection of tea is huge and I love being able to try a new type or style every time I visit, especially when paired with one of their fantastic cakes and pastries.
Highly recommended.

I used to use this eatery to give myself a monthly treat, I loved the smoked salmon and scrambled egg. On my last visit the waiter apologised for the sub standard looking cutlery, which I found rather off putting, looked like they found it at the back of the drawer. Feel standards are slipping, they need to fix up

Now this is an amazing tea shop. I stepped into this lovely café after a long walk exploring my neighbourhood. It was a cold day and I just wanted a nice place with some hot tea to warm my bones and read my book. When I got in it was packed. I was pointed at a lovely little antique arm chair in the corner near the heating with its own little Moroccan silver tray next to it. I gratefully accepted. set down, ordered an amazing looking chocolate cake with purple (yes, purple and yes I choose it because of the colour) decorations and a Vanilla flavoured black tea. For an hour I was in pure heaven.
The next time I took my housemate with me, as she loves tea, and we went upstairs, where the benches along the walls are covered in tonnes of cushions and each seating arrangement has it’s own little silver tray … it’s very Moroccan and lovely and comfortable. We sat down, had our tea and cake and read our books in quite harmony with the hustle and bustle of the busy café and the quite chats of customers next to us as background music. The waiters are not too pushy and we took our time with tea and cake, as we were in no hurry to leave such a nice place.
The café offers a wide range of baked goods from cake to gâteau to tart and so on. They also always try new combinations of flavours, which I find most appealing and on top of that they always have cakes which are gluten free and yummy. It also has a savoury menu, which I haven’t tried yet.

I end up here very occasionally (mainly because I have to remortgage between visits) and it’s always pretty pleasant. I usually have the kedgeree, because they do it right and so few places do.
The service is sooooo slow though! Honestly, it’s as if they have a bet on between them as to how slow you can go without a customer actually walking out. But then they are so sweet, that they manage to buy themselves an extra 30 minutes on charm alone.
The tea is excellent, although the last time I took my mother in, we had finished our teas before I mentioned that my Assam was obnoxiously perfumed, and she replied that her Earl Grey was really dull… just like Assam in fact… d’oh!
It’s pretty, the cakes are tempting, the food is good — just expect to spend a decade or two waiting for your order and then part with a small limb on the way out.

Beyond fabulous. Last time I was here I had the most delicious organic grass-​fed steak with perfect french fries. Their teas are amazing. You can buy bags of various herb, green tea etc to take home with you. Apparently they do amazing cocktails too but I haven’t tried them yet. I adore this place!

If you adore tea, like sweets, savory treats, wine and really sweet staff and just want to chill out then this is your spot.
I came here nursing a bad cold and I gotta say, it was like being nursed back to health by someones grandmother. Not mine, cos she’s passed and that would be weird. But someone elses who enjoys baking and serving up tasty treats and also tasty Croque Madames.
Me and my homegirl Bea B. stayed and chatted here for about 3.5 hours and honestly we could’ve stayed here all night in the bosom of this sweet café with a gazillion Chandeliers. Yep, thats where they get their name from… the Chandeliers that adorn every nook and cranny of this place, if you’re looking to buy one, no need to go any further. Come on in, have a spot of tea and check out the goods.
Speaking of teas, they’re pretty fabulous, and the chocolate cake that Bea ordered that I had a bite of (just 1 bite and i was hooked) sent me into such a tail spin. The chocolate is a must try, the pear tart was nice, but nothing to write home about.
A must!

If you like, no sorry, love your tea then you probably won’t be leaving here anytime soon.
I tend to come her of a weekday afternoon, as it’s too busy at the weekends. What with The Yumsters (aka yummy mummies) of se22 aiming to take out your ankles at every turn, it’s probably safer that way.
The big feature, of course, is all in the name. Chandeliers adorn the place both front and back and help add to the quaint charm of the place.
I was surprised that they didn’t let kids sit in the back. It was, i was informed, because of some health and safety issue. I figured more because i was the only the person in there at 10am and the waiting staff didn’t want to make the extra journey, but hey, that aside, this place is a nice slice of civility.
The teas on offer are the biggest selling point. No need to list them, just go there yourself and sniff them out. the menu is packed with the weird and wonderful. Last time i was here I had a Jing China Breakfast tea with eggs-​pertly-​prepared Eggs Benedict (*groan — sorry, i couldn’t resist). It was lovely.

Superb selection of teas, in chi-​chi surroundings — a good selection of delicious cakes to go with it too. The savoury food should not be overlooked either; breakfasts are hearty and well done, the lunch menu includes a range of sandwiches and café whatnots as well as ribeye steaks (cooked to order — if you want it properly rare, that’s what you’ll get), and a small but perfectly formed menu for the evening, along with a respectable wine list. When the weather’s in your favour, you can sit streetside, too. Apparently all the light fittings are are for sale, too — hence the name (not joking).

Horrible experience — had to wait 20 mins to get the menu which we had to ask for and then 50 mins for nasty food. Poorly heated oven chips, salad emptied out of a bag complete with leaves well past their sell by date, slabs of cheap white supermarket bread purporting to be toasted ciabatta served by sullen, disinterested teenagers. Avoid at all costs.

Your mum will adore this place. So will brides. And new mothers. It’s all shabby-​chic interiors and wistful ambience. It’s just perfect for Lordship lane. The perfectly crafted tea shop to sit alongside boutiques crammed with elegantly draped clothing, stores full of beautiful unnecessary things and upmarket organic grocers. This is a place for a sunny afternoon when your life is just melt-​away glorious, and you have no memory of jaded cynicism. You can sip exotic tea and eat cake. It is very very lovely– the café equivalent of a lilac pashmina. I only crave this level of loveliness occasionally though.

I love tea. I drink it all the time. Tea with breakfast, tea to get going after breakfast, tea to warm my chilly hands as I hammer away at the keyboard doing a morning’s work, tea directly after lunch to stop the carbosludge from misdirecting my brain, tea mid-​afternoon to lift me, tea to accompany my after-​dinner slump on the sofa and yes, more tea to wind down as the evening progresses. Usually it’s straight up black tea moving on to chai for an extra lift, green tea or camomile to relax and just about anything vaguely tasty to add variety throughout the day.
Yes, I do drink a lot of tea, and I try to be adventurous in my flavours and buy organic, good quality stuff but nothing I’ve ever bought in a shop has matched the full flavour of the tea I’ve drunk at Le Chandelier. I really don’t know how they do it — maybe it’s a simple case of loose leaf tea versus teabags, or their employment of lovely china teapots and vintagey looking cups. Perhaps it’s because the tables and chairs are stylish art deco or because there’s a delicious sandwichey, cakey scent in the air. Perhaps it’s all of these things — all I know is tea tastes better at Le Chandelier.
The obvious drawback is the price — tea don’t come cheap in a Salon de The and you’ll spend at least £2.50 per pot, plus the food may look great but it’s a little on the expensive and insubstantial side. Okay, so Le Chandelier might not be a sensible option for everyday tea drinking but as a special treat I’ll savour its delights all the more.

This beautiful teahouse found in the heart of East Dulwich offers over 34 specialist teas as well as cakes and lunches, sweet and savoury, wines and cocktails. Choose to sit in the Moroccan den upstairs, the light and airy French tea room or slip into a large soft armchair underneath a ceiling of chandeliers at the front of the shop.
The atmosphere is relaxed allowing you to sit there for hours sipping at whole rosebud, lemongrass and jasmine tea followed by scones and a glass of wine or two.