Vancouver needs a place that serves cream tea, stat. Sure, there are places that serve high tea here, but they offer finger sandwiches, cranberry scones and other bite sized sweets on a 3 tiered tray with a choice of assorted teas. And they cost like $25+ per person.

Too fancy.

I want a little spot that just serves English breakfast tea, plain scones, strawberry jam and clotted cream. We are so influenced by the Brits here that there SHOULD be a place like this that I can go to every weekend.

That’s what I miss about England, particularly the countryside, where you can pop into a cafe anywhere to get your mid-afternoon fix.

Here I am in Warwick, blissed out of my mind from just having had cream tea at Thomas Oken Tea Rooms.

If I had the means, I would open one up myself. A little place that served cream tea and English comfort food and decorated in eccentric brick-a-bracks. It could be modelled after the tea place I went to in Warwick or even Tea & Sympathy in New York. Boy, did I love that place and would go there even by myself on the weekends.

But then again, I did recently pick up a recipe for scones and I did say I would start baking this year. And those scones would go nicely with the box of tea that Sean gave me as a Christmas stocking stuffer.

All I need now is a floral teapot and matching cups and saucers.