The Teahouse

While I was in Maryland/DC, L.E.D and I went to this place called "Reynolds Tavern" which also happens to be a teahouse. It is not only a really cool historical building, on the circle, but it also has some very interesting and slightly old fashioned things.

We decided on the Afternoon Tea Special for both of us. This included a bottomless pot of tea and various snacks that varied depending on what type of special you picked. We picked the Sweet Tea and Savory Tea.

The Sweet tea came with a pot of Sencha Kyoto Cherry Rose Festival, which is a sweeter tea that we chose based solely on its name. It turned out to be a great choice! It also came with small sweets: a lemon square, a piece of caramel pound cake, a piece of plain pound cake, a heart shaped sugar cookie, a heart shaped lavender infused sugar cookie, two different tarts (which I can't remember the names of) and a scone of our choice. We both picked a cranberry orange scone, which was heaven with fresh whipped cream and strawberry preserves.

The Savory tea came with a pot of Lapsong Souchong, which was suggested to us by our waitress. Lapsong Souchong is a very strange tea, partially because it has a very smoky flavor. To be honest it smelled (and slightly tasted) like bacon. Donnie would've approved. It also came with small savory treats: a Shepard's pie tart, a mushroom truffle tart, two ham finger sandwiches, two egg salad finger sandwiches, two cucumber and cream cheese finger sandwiches and a few other things I can't quite remember.

The restaurant played 40's and 50's music, which was very nice. Including some songs from my favorite musicals. One of the many songs we heard was about Indiana, which made us giggle since we had driven from Indiana to get to Maryland.

There were a lot of interesting things about this place. It was very old-fashioned, which made me happy as I like historical and old-fashioned things. We had honey (with a fancy honey dipper) and actual sugar cubes with our tea. And yes, I did say "One lump or two?" while holding a cube of sugar in some gorgeous little sugar tongs. Our cups were Wedgewood China cups and our tiny tea spoons had little tea cups and tea pots on the ends.

It was definitely worth the visit and I can't wait to go there again. The only thing that we didn't get to try was their "Love Potion #9" which was an alcoholic beverage we decided to save for another trip.

If you find yourself in the Annapolis area, make sure to visit "Reynolds Tavern" on the circle.