A quick trip up north this weekend. As has become the norm now, the journey involves a detour of a few miles into the wonderful unspoilt town of Helmsley. There nestling within mellow Yorkshire stonework is the timber framed Black Swan Hotel. Stand and admire its beauty, maybe as I did today with you back to the sun feeling its warmth resting this travellers bones before casting eye right to the gable end. A Tearoom. And not just any tearoom, possibly the best we know of. As connoisseurs of caffeine and cake we travel the length nay breadth of Britain in search of a good cuppa. We always return here. Service excellent, tea brewed to perfection, cakes a-plenty and above all Yorkshire Hospitality.
Many tea-rooms come close, the Lavender Tearooms in Northumberland, Ethicurian in Somerset, Castle Gardens in Dorset, but to days, none match the Black Swan, so far. I guess then we'll just have to keep looking for a successor to this perfect Salon de The.
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