Tyme for Tea

My little city of Fremont is separated into five main districts and one of them is named Niles. It’s a more antiquated part of town and has an old fashioned feel to it. Think Main Street USA in Disneyland without all the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck pizzazz. It’s quiet and cute and has a great little high tea place that I got to try today.

I’m not a big high tea kind of person. I don’t have any inspirations to become the Queen of England or anything but the concept of having tea sounded so lovely. I’ve only gone once before for a birthday party in San Francisco but it was so long ago and I was much younger so I just put too much sugar and milk into my tea.

We went to a small little place in Niles called “Tyme for Tea.” It’s part tearoom and part antique shop. We ordered two of their “Grand Sparkling Victorian Tea” for the three of us (my mom, my brother and me) and it was plenty. It came with a glass of champagne each for us of the drinking age, two choices of tea, a scone to start with, a tiered case of sandwiches and a plate of pastries.

Pastries, pastries, pastries!

Though you would generally imagine tea to be light on the stomach and not very filling but to be honest, I was so stuffed afterward I had a hard time walking! We had passion peach tea and cranberry orange. The passion peach was delicious! It was nice and light and very fragrant.

Tyme for Tea is a really fun place to go for a little day trip adventure. They have a tub of hats you can try on and wear while having tea and the atmosphere is really pleasant with piano melodies of popular songs playing in the background. It’s a bit expensive, I have to admit, so I’d recommend it for a special occasion. I had a lot of fun and I really want to take my sister some time!

Doesn't my brother look so excited to have a hat on?