Lamorna Pottery and the perfect scones.

Near where we were staying in Cornwall was the Lamorna Pottery, which has a tea shop attached. Both the Driver and the Passenger have visited here in the past. Previous visits had been prior to meeting each other and then later, together and then later still with children. So it is true we have a long history with this tea shop.

On arrival it was clear that little had changed since the last visit nearly twenty years ago.

Inside the tea room is small bright and clean with tables in the garden. The pottery is no longer a production pottery but they sell lots of different gifts.

Our memories of the teas here were of wonderful teas with generous portions. The menu confirmed that they still did cream teas.

Not cheap but we hoped they would be as good as they were. We ordered 2 cream teas, with Earl Grey for the Passenger and Ceylon for the Driver.

When they arrived we were not disappointed. The only problem was that the teapots had two bags in each and as the passenger likes her tea on the weak side of weak, it was a bit of rush to remove the bags before the tea got too strong.  Hot water was given without asking.

The portions were as we remembered. The portion of cream was gigantic and the jam was of a similar size. The jam was strawberry and there was no choice but the quality was fantastic. It tasted of strawberries and there were large chucks of fruit in the jam.

The scones were warm. When opened they had a wonderful texture. We assembled our teas and tucked in.

The first bite was accompanied by groans of pleasure. The scones were absolutely wonderful, light and they just melted in the mouth. We both agreed that the scones were the best we had tasted in years. It would be fair to say that it would be hard to think of anything that could have improved on these scones.

We scored the tea:-

Ambiance and Presentation:- 4 A clean room with a nice atmosphere.
Jam and Cream:- 5 Quality and portion size
Scones:- 5 To dream about.
Tea:- 4 reasonable choice and hot water given without asking.
Service:- 4 Friendly counter Staff.

Overall:- 22/25