After moving back from living in England for a few...

After moving back from living in England for a few years, we were excited to have a historic place where we could get afternoon tea close to home. We were especially excited about the outside domes right now during a pandemic. We made reservations for an afternoon tea with our two daughters (5 and 8) to celebrate my birthday. Upon arrival, we were disappointed to see that they did not have any child friendly options for afternoon tea. They only had 2 decaf options, Earl Gray and breakfast. There was no peppermint tea or even hot chocolate. We decided on sprite, which they brought out in disposable cups. We asked if we could get tea cups for the girls to go with the tea party theme and since we were paying for an afternoon tea for them. The waitress told us that nothing but tea was allowed in the tea cups. After moving here from England this is the first we have ever heard of this rule! We then asked if we could have milk in tea cups for them since we were allowed to put milk in our tea, and we were again denied. We explained it was a tea party birthday party, but the waitress just ignored our request at that point. The sandwiches and scones were good, but we were not impressed with the customer service nor with the options to make it more of a child friendly tea party. The next time we want to do something special like that with our daughters we will go further to find a different teahouse. The whole experience just put a damper on my birthday party after we were so excited to find some thing we could do during February during a pandemic. We also got charged for the sprite, which seemed absolutely ridiculous since we never did get the tea that we paid for as part of the afternoon tea.