Author name: The St. James Tearoom

We have a saying at the Tearoom: we become what we love. What we love shapes us. More often than we realize, we make decisions based on the desires of our hearts, based on what we want—and usually, we want what we love.

The other day someone asked me how I was going to handle a difficult situation.
I responded, “Not a clue.”

A lot of people think of afternoon tea as a pleasant little extra, a delightful thing to do if you have the luxury of an idle hour on your hands. I would like to suggest…

Porcelain has always been extraordinary and unequaled. At first it was prized and collected as suitable gifts between princes and was exorbitantly expensive.