The Ivy Tearoom

This tea tastes incredible! It’s so desserty and perfectly spiced. It was great warm with milk and sugar. It’s supposed to taste like pineapple upside down cake, and I can see that! I rarely come across a cake tea that actually tastes like cake, but this totally does. This was definitely my favorite blend from October’s afternoon tea.

This tastes quite floral from the elderflower. There’s a lot of apple. I also taste some maple. It’s nice and fruity and light. The spices are pleasant, but I’m not sure where the brulee in the name is supposed to come from based on the ingredient list.

We recently enjoyed a Hocus Pocus themed afternoon tea at Ivy Tearoom, which was very thematic and fun, though my least favorite in terms of food. It was really hard to choose which of their fun seasonal teas to try! My partner called this one “appley and throat coaty”. I found it to be pretty standard, but pleasant. The base is decently hearty, and I taste an array of spices. Clove and ginger are probably the strongest.

This is pleasantly desserty! I wouldn’t call it carrot cake, but I definitely taste the spices. After eating something super sweet in our dessert course, my partner and I turned to each other and at the same time said that now we could taste the carrot cake! It just needed something to bring it out. I’ve had much tastier carrot cake teas, so I wouldn’t prioritize this one. It was nice, but it didn’t stand out.

I taste the caramel, and I do get the donut vibe! It’s pretty decadent and desserty. It reminds me of the butterscotch flavoring from Adagio, though this is a green base. This was by far our favorite tea from afternoon tea.

I recently enjoyed another lovely visit to Ivy Tearoom. This tea was Forever Nuts-ish, though not as tasty as other versions. There’s a bit of a weird flavor here. It’s nutty, but not exciting. Good with milk and sugar. It was probably our least favorite tea of the meal.

Wow this legitimately tastes like apple cake! The quality of the apple reminds me of apple juice also. It’s lightly spiced and great warm with milk and sugar. I’m sure the walnuts help the dessertiness too. This was by far our favorite tea, and we’re already looking forward to trying next month’s afternoon tea!

This tastes like banana flavoring, but that’s nice enough with milk and sugar. The tea brewed up super light. I would have had no idea it’s black tea. So this was artificial and one-note, but not bad.

We tried out another afternoon tea spot in town! The food was delicious, and they blend their own teas! We got to pick three to go with our tiers of treats. This one tastes like peach rings! It’s definitely a fake peach, but it’s still enjoyable. I didn’t notice the caramel that was supposed to be there. It was one-note, but nice warm with milk and sugar. I bet it would be pleasant iced too, though maybe the fakeness would come out even more like that.