Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms

Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms: Like going back in time! (276 words)
by LadyAudley - written on 04.01.08 (Useful, 45 readings)
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This is my favourite cake shop. The setting is a wonderful old 1930s building, full of polished wood, glass and gleaming brass. When you walk in, it feels as if you're entering a different world - an older more civilized time, when people spent all day playing cricket, stopping only for high tea. You are seated and served personally by polite, unsnooty waiting staff, who all look wonderful in their traditional black dresses and frilly pinnies. They will then bring you a selection of the most delectable cakes money can buy. You could try the local speciality, a Yorkshire fat rascal (big enough to be a meal in its own right), or any number of tarts, cream ...

Betty's - the best tea room in the world (864 words)
by cswann - written on 11.06.01 (Very useful, 1232 readings)
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It seems that every time I visit York, I end up going into Betty's tea room, either for a meal, or a tea and cake. It's not that there aren't plenty of good cafes in York. It's just that Betty's is so good - I just can't help myself, and always give in to the lure of the gently posh nostalgic experience that is Betty's. This is a place with a history. First of all it's not owned by a Betty, and never was. Frederick Belmont opened the first Betty's (in Harrogate) in 1919, and the York branch followed, in the late 1930's. He had been on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary, and commissioned the same designers to replicate ...