Tearoom

A precursor to the nightclubs of the 1920s, the tearoom was the place not only to be seen but to learn the latest ragtime dances or the supremely naughty Argentine tango. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Today, the tearoom is a time-capsule of the Victorian age. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She played in the Driskill Hotel's tearoom, which is small but very fancy, and everyone sat on the floor and paid rapt attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kincaid had to admit the tearoom was a charming enough place, a warm retreat with heavy oak furniture and bright Blue Calico tea services, but the drawing of Alice in Wonderland on the restaurant’s paper menus made him think of Vic. ❋ Deborah Crombie (1997)

Running down the beer stocks, reducing the catering to a "tearoom" with snacks and cakes, closing the club before golfers had finished playing and reducing the space for club notices were among the list of complaints from the long suffering players. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The tearoom was a place for everything new, and oriental and African philosophies were very interesting for a new democracy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

European émigrés who had swept into every tearoom of the world's grandest hotels. ❋ Brittany Newmark (2011)

Are their Lordships struggling to find space in the tearoom or short of sunny spots to sip G&Ts on the terrace? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Experience a tea service rooted in Asian tea tradition at Franchia tearoom. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)

Our waiter is bemused by our request and allows us to use the tearoom for our photography session. ❋ Jen Knox (2011)

And the grande-dame tearoom also is dispensing a thoroughly modern amenity to guests: use of an iPad to electronically peruse newspapers or surf the Web. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Homemade cakes, soups and sandwiches are on offer in the tearoom at the rear, with seating right along the waterfront. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There was a swimming pool, a cinema and a tearoom where Hitler would eat cake, and even a vegetable garden for his awkward meals. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A trip to the tearoom located just upstairs from the shop is obligatoire especially if you're in transit and concerned about destroying these pastries before you arrive home. ❋ Flora Lazar (2011)

Mizuho Nakamura, who had surprised everyone when she came in third at the ICEX competition, was back in Japan working at the highly acclaimed Ryugin in Tokyo but was also busy drawing up plans to open a Japanese tearoom—“I want it to be REAL Japanese,” she wrote, “though with plated desserts”—in Barcelona or New York. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

I sat down at one of the small, picturesque marble tables set up around the perimeter of the chocolatier's backroom tearoom, and bedecked with plates of macarons and bits of chocolate, apparently meant to enhance the coming tasting, and started to scroll through my correspondence with Ms. Gentile. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

Though there's a tearoom at Arne Nature Reserve for hot drinks and maybe the occasional KitKat, head back to Wareham for greater sustenance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bookshelf96 Fore Street, Saltash, Cornwall PL12 6JW, 01752 845804Sisters Jill Male and Pippa Prout own this cosy shop, with its walls of books, toys and cards on spinners, and a spiral staircase that leads to a tearoom on the first floor. ❋ Unknown (2011)