Fifteas Vintage Tea Room is located in Bishops Auckland in County Durham, and I visited in early August with the hopes of having the afternoon tea. With a tea room, I would expect that tea could be ordered. However, anyone wanting to purchase the afternoon tea has to book it in advance. Instead, I ordered a tea, scone, and a cheese toastie. The menus are provided designed as ration books from the World War II days, and the cafe included a lot of vintage items such as an old radio, an old television, a typewriter, and some vintage toys.
I received a fruit scone with clotted cream and jam. The tea came with a custard cream biscuit.
The plates used I recognised as I bought the set when I first lived in England in 2000, and I bought them from a nice shop in Salisbury that has since closed. The set includes each season, and the autumn one (pictured below) was my favourite of the designs.
The food was decent enough, but I would have liked to have tried the afternoon tea.
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