Historic Oakland

Historic Oakland is mostly used as a wedding and special events mansion. However, at certain times a year, they turn it into a tearoom. I went on one of the weekends where it was a tearoom. The menu included Savories of a chicken & cheese croissant, fresh broccoli egg salad on flat bread, cucumber and tomato aspic tea sandwich, and ham and asparagus wrap. The desserts included red velvet & cream cheese frosting cupcake, almond meringue cookies, rainbow cake petit four, and a decadent out of this world good chocolate cherry scone & topping. There were 3 types of tea: sugar plum, decaf peach, and English breakfast.

I went with 2 friends and we enjoyed the meal, especially the delicious scones which were extremely fresh. I would have liked more varieties of tea, but outside of ... (more)this, the food was excellent, the tea was hot, the service was good, the room was spacious and there was ample parking. The mansion doesn't have much in the way of wall-paper or a lot of decor on the walls (the walls were a neutral cream color for the wedding events) so it might not be as fancy smancy as some tea rooms like Tea on the Tiber but it was clean and spacious and it had a nice ballroom type floor. The day I went it was packed to capacity with ladies (and some men) for tea :)