About TeaGuide ...

The directory to thousands of tea rooms and tea shops in more than fifty countries around the world. Extensive details -- information that you asked for -- plus unbiased reviews written by tea lovers like yourself. 

1. Why TeaGuide? 

2. Where do your tea listings come from?

3. Are all the listings accurate?

4. What do all the descriptive details actually mean for a tea room or tea shop customer?

5. Do I need reservations for tea?

6. What if there's no tea room near me?

7. How can I list my tea room or tea shop and what does it cost?

8. Why don't you include lunch or "tea luncheon" as a descriptive option in your listings?

9. How do I submit a review of a tea room I've visited, or let you know that it has closed?

10. How long does it take you to publish a listing or a review after I submit it?

11. If my tea room or tea shop gets a bad review will you let me post a response?

12. Why doesn't TeaGuide post ratings and rankings of tea rooms?

13. Why don't all the listings include a website link and email address?

14. Do the listings include locator maps?

15. Why don't the listings include ZIP codes?

16. Why is the TeaGuide website so "low-tech?"

17. How can I place a photo with my TeaGuide listing, and further promote my tea room/tea shop?

18. What's with the "fur" alerts?

19. Can I reprint TeaGuide listings or reviews?

20. Do you advertise TeaGuide?

21. Can I advertise my tea-related business at TeaGuide?

22. Can I make a donation to TeaGuide? Or become a corporate sponsor?

23. How do I swap links with TeaGuide?

24. Where can I chat with tea lovers about tea rooms, tea shops, and other tea topics? 

We like to go out for tea -- sometimes just a good "cuppa," or something a bit more formal (or unusual). We also enjoy finding shops that sell interesting teas and tea accessories. So we were always asking our tea friends to recommend tea shops in different places that we travel to.

It occurred to us that other tea lovers might like this information, so we started keeping track of tea rooms we'd visited. We happily shared this information with any tea lover who asked -- mostly through a (now-defunct) tea discussion group, as well as offline. 

In early 1997 we began posting our Guide to shops, tea rooms, restaurants, hotel rooms, inns, casual settings, and historic or cultural sites that serve afternoon tea, cream tea, high tea (supper), or a decent cuppa at any time of day, and/or sell tea and accessories in a retail shop, on our The Cat-Tea Corner website. Little by little, tea lovers everywhere contacted us to include their favourite tea places in the listings. Of course tea lovers enjoy sharing their love of tea with others, and we are grateful that so many of you have contributed to TeaGuide and continue to do so.

As tea drinkers ourselves, we know how difficult it is to find good tea, especially when travelling. We likewise understand how much work is involved in running a tea retail or service business, and would like to see every tea room or tea shop succeed. It's advantageous for everyone when both sellers and consumers get together. That is why TeaGuide came about, and this continues to be our objective. 

Please note that TeaGuide is not now, nor have we ever been, affiliated with any other "tea directory." TeaGuide is a unique publication: we are and always have been a non-commercial venture. TeaGuide was created by tea lovers to share the joy of finding good tea with other tea drinkers, and to provide free promotion to tea room and tea shop owners to help them be around for a good long time! 

TeaGuide was not developed as a marketing tool to sell products, nor do we buy any type of advertising. This is a "mom and pop" operation: we have no staff to maintain the TeaGuide website, to do research, or for promotional purposes. Our budget consists of whatever income is derived from limited advertising and affiliate sales. Our promotions consist mostly of links from other websites, especially linkbacks from tea room/tea shop websites. 

We are now what we always have been (even when we were hosted at The Cat-Tea Corner): a free, no-strings, non-commercial service for tea lovers, whether they sell or buy tea. No agenda, no sales pitch. We do not send spam. And our site has always been specifically designed to provide maximum details about a tea business, for both customer convenience and for the benefit of tea business owners. 

TeaGuide has always followed a policy not to copy from other websites or publications, although we are aware that TeaGuide, in full or in part, in content and/or format, has been copied by various other entities, both online and off-line. Unlike other entities, however, we are not in the business of sales, but in the business of sharing the enjoyment of tea. We believe this sentiment is shared by the thousands of readers who visit us every day.   

(TeaGuide's owners opened a separate gift shop in the spring of 2007. Our readers are under no obligation to visit our shop or to make a purchase. But we certainly welcome you to do so!)
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About half of our tea room and tea shop listings were submitted either by tea room/tea shop owners or by tea lovers who visited them. The rest were researched through continuing online and off-line searches, mostly through media resources but also by contacting local tourist bureaus, travel services, professional groups, and the like. A lot of "leg work" has gone into compiling TeaGuide listings over the past dozen or so years. 

We do not copy our listing information from any other "tea directory" entities. (We do link to some of the better ones.) All of our listings are either submitted to us or have been empirically researched. We do not pay for listings, nor do we pay or otherwise compensate anyone to provide listing information to us.   

TeaGuide is the only tea directory that credits all submissions -- and we're the only comprehensive tea directory that links to other tea room listing websites. 
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The descriptions and details we provide with each listing are the most up-to-date information we have. All businesses change over time: new ones open, others close. They may move their location, change their hours, alter their menus, add new services, eliminate prior offerings. We update TeaGuide almost daily, but it is impossible for any dining or shopping guide to be 100% accurate. That is why we include the following notice on all our directory pages: "We recommend that you call ahead to confirm the details listed here." This is especially true if you plan to drive a long distance. 

We're very grateful when our readers alert us to changes, updates, openings, and closings, either by email or through our Update submittal form.   
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Some of the features are described at the top of this page under What do the designations mean? Our Update Form, which is filled out by the tea room or tea shop owner, describes in detail all available products and services. The tea room or tea shop owner tells us what they offer, and we include this information in their TeaGuide listing.

With over 150 available descriptive choices, TeaGuide makes it easy for you to find the type of tea room or tea shop you're looking for. Our standardized descriptions help you compare tea rooms and choose the one/s that offer exactly what you're looking for, either by reading through or by using your browser's search capability.

If you'd like to find, for example, a place to hold a Red Hat event in New Jersey, visit the New Jersey page. You can scroll through to find the Red Hat images, or use your browser's Find feature (Ctrl+F, or Edit/Find) and in the Find box enter the words "Red Hat" (without the "quotation" marks) to locate a venue that caters to Red Hatters. 

You can similarly search each page for any other offerings. For example, find a spot that invites you to bring your children (Ctrl+F and "child"), has a Victorian ambiance (Ctrl+F and "Victorian"), a tea room that offers WiFi (Ctrl+F and "Internet") or cream teas (Ctrl+F and "cream tea"). And so on. 

Just keep in mind the advice in Are all the listings accurate? above about calling ahead to verify details.
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TeaGuide recommends that you call ahead to a tea room when you are visiting for the first time to confirm their hours and their reservations policy. Whenever possible we include this information in the tea room's listing, but these details can, of course, change without notice.

Even if you're familiar with the tea room, it's a good idea to call ahead if you're traveling a distance or celebrating a special event, to ensure that they can accommodate you at your chosen date and time. You don't want to make plans with friends or family and then arrive to discover that the tea room is closed for vacation, or they have booked a party for the entire premises, or they've simply changed their business hours. 

Generally speaking, you should make reservations for afternoon tea and Royal tea service (Royal tea is an afternoon tea that includes a glass of champagne, sherry, or wine), although there are some tea venues that can accommodate walk-ins for full tea service. If you're making last-minute plans, you may want to consider a hotel tea, rather than a small tea room.

Cream teas, dessert teas, and "just a cuppa" are often available on a walk-in basis. Groups of more than four people for any tea service, however, would do well to call ahead to ask if reservations are necessary, because most tea rooms have limited seating space. 

Some tea venues require that you provide credit card information when you make your reservation. Others may automatically add a service charge (or tip). Ask about their policies in advance!

Expect reservations to be required for theme teas (like Mother's Day), special events (book signings, for example), and tea tastings, classes, or workshops. Depending on the popularity of the event, you may need to reserve several weeks in advance -- possibly months ahead for Christmas and Mother's Day. 

If you make a reservation, honour it! If you must cancel, try to give the tea room at least 24 hours notice. Remember that most tea rooms are fairly small and the owners do most of the work. Also keep in mind that tea rooms often prepare special "tea food" only when teas are reserved, and may charge your credit card for no-shows if they cannot re-book the table. (Empty tables and seats are costly to a tea room owner.)

Are you planning a private tea party -- a group booking for meetings, showers, birthdays, etc. -- perhaps with a customized menu? These always require advance reservations, along with a signed contract and a deposit. Normally you will be given a deadline date for a final guest count; whatever total number of guests you provide is the number of meals you should expect to pay for, even if some of them do not attend. Be sure to check with the tea room to ensure that you know how far in advance you need to book private parties, and whether you can get a "doggie bag" for no-shows' meals.

One more thing ... If you or any member of your group requires special dietary accommodation (vegetarian, vegan, diabetic, lactose-free, low-fat, celiac, etc.) be sure to call ahead by at least a couple of days (preferably more) to ask whether the tea venue can prepare a special meal. Be aware that the answer may be that they cannot or will not, so be prepared to make other arrangements. Most importantly, do not expect a tea room to be able to alter their menu on the spot, because you are likely to be disappointed if they tell you that they simply cannot accommodate. When the information is available to us, TeaGuide notes that a tea room offers vegetarian menu choices and/or will try to accommodate special diets with advance notice -- so look for these notations in our listings!
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Here are some suggestions:

Get together with a group of friends for "round robin" teas. Each week (or bi-weekly, or monthly) rotate which person plays host/ess in their home, preparing and serving tea to the rest of the group. Traditional, contemporary, or even picnic style -- the choice is yours!

Go "ethnic!" Visit a local Asian restaurant. Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and other Asian-cuisine restaurants usually serve good teas to accompany meals. Order several appetizers (to share or not) -- the first cup or potful is often included in the price. You'll usually find oolong, black, or jasmine tea at Chinese restaurants; green tea at Japanese restaurants; masala chai and black teas at Indian restaurants. Some serve only a house tea, others offer a choice. Most restaurants will welcome your mid-afternoon visit -- the hours between 3pm and 6pm are generally their slow times.

You can usually find a good cuppa and a selection of pastries at bookstore cafés. Barnes & Noble, Borders, and many local bookshops offer a spot to sip and read (and often have WiFi connections too).

See if a local bakery has a café section where you can enjoy a cuppa with a treat or two from their display cases. 

Some natural foods stores offer a spot for a healthful snack. Select a cup of tea or tisane and some whole-grain baked goods, grab a seat, and do some healthy-people watching.  

Ask your favourite restaurant if they accommodate private parties, then have a chat with the chef to select a tea-time menu. Now, get a group of people together for tea. This, of course, requires some advanced planning.

And if you happen to find a great place for tea that isn't listed at TeaGuide, don't forget to let us know about it!
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You can list your tea room or tea shop -- or a tea room or tea shop you've visited -- in TeaGuide by filling out and submitting our Update form. Please provide as much information as you can, especially if you are the owner, manager, or employee of the tea room. (Detailed descriptions benefit both tea lovers looking for tea, and tea businesses themselves.) Or contact us by email with all the details.

Listings in TeaGuide are free of charge. Each listing includes extensive details. If you would like to include any additional information in your listing we offer customized listings with our Featured Tea Rooms promotional service.   
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TeaGuide is dedicated to listing resources for tea, the beverage and the meals. When our readers visit the tea rooms in our directory, they expect to find top-quality tea and/or a specific tea service (afternoon tea, cream tea, gong-fu tea, and so on). This is what defines "tea room" for TeaGuide.

You may be familiar with a style of restaurant called tea room or tearoom that specializes in serving a light lunch, and sometimes breakfast and/or dinner. While you may be able to get a good cuppa at some lunch rooms, most (unfortunately) offer only restaurant-grade tea as one option on their beverage menus. Some lunch rooms refer to lunch as "tea," but actually serve no specific tea meal. A lunch room's focus is on food, not tea.  

While generally lunch room/tearooms are charming dining spots, TeaGuide's listings are limited to tea rooms (tea houses, tea parlours, tea salons, tea shops) that cater to tea lovers.

The tea lover who expects tea service at a lunchroom/tearoom will be disappointed, and this may result in a negative reader review. We know how disheartening it is for business owners to receive negative reviews. We also do not want to disappoint or confuse our tea-loving readers. 

One way we can avoid these problems is to eliminate lunch as a descriptive option. Many of the tea rooms listed here serve lunch as well as tea, and some serve other meals as well. We suggest you call ahead to enquire. For similar reasons we do not list any restaurant meals (breakfast, brunch, dinner, supper) other than tea service. 

TeaGuide's mission is to promote tea. This is a specialty guide, not a general restaurant directory, so TeaGuide tries to avoid including lunch rooms in our tea room listings. Occasionally we may inadvertently list a lunch room -- especially when they refer to their meal offering as "tea" -- but we trust that our readers will alert us to any errors in our listings. And, of course, we encourage lunch room and general restaurant owners to add tea service to their menus. TeaGuide will be happy to list them when they do.
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To submit a review, fill out and send our Review form.

To notify us of a business that has closed or moved, or has new hours or a new owner, fill out and send our Update form.

Or just share your own favourite tea spots with other tea lovers. 

If you have any difficulty submitting the forms, contact us by email. (Occasionally the forms may be incompatible with security software or devices.) In your email be sure to identify the tea room/shop by name and location (city plus state, province, or other country).

This information with links is posted on each page of our directory.   
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We publish new listings, updates, and reviews as quickly as possible. 

TeaGuide and The Cat-Tea Corner are non-commercial sites, and we have no dedicated web staff (see Why TeaGuide above). We receive hundreds of new listings, updates (changes or closures), reviews, and correspondence of all kinds on a wide range of topics every month. Every so often we see a surge of submissions -- sometimes three or four times the usual number in a given week or month. All we can do is try to get to each one as soon as humanly possible.

Occasionally there is a problem with the submission itself. Maybe there's a glitch and we don't receive it, or some basic information is missing or incorrect. If a message ends up "lost" in cyberspace there's not much we can do. When we receive an update or review with a typo or omission, there may be a delay while we check the facts. (The most common reason why reviews are not published is that the reviewer has not provided their email address. TeaGuide does not send spam nor sell email addresses, but we do verify that the review has been sent from an active email address. TeaGuide is unable to publish anonymous reviews.)

When new listing and update submissions indicate that they will place a link to TeaGuide on their website, we may wait a day or more to allow time for the link to TeaGuide to be placed; then we can include a link in the listing straight away. Click here to learn more about including a link to your tea room/tea shop website.
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Ever since TeaGuide's inception in 1996, its online debut in 1997, and our posting of reviews shortly after, we have always been responsive to both tea drinkers and tea room owners, especially those whose businesses receive negative reviews. 

We would, of course, much prefer not to receive or post negative reviews. TeaGuide's Review form includes this advice: "Most owners work very hard and truly want to please their customers. If you were unhappy with your tea room or tea shop experience, we encourage you to contact the owner and explain the problem." We'd much rather see customers follow this advice than send us an uncomplimentary review. But we are committed to posting unbiased reviews, and sometimes these reviews will be negative.

For a time we would contact tea room owners to let them know there was a negative review and ask them if they wanted to respond. Very few chose to do so -- in fact, nearly all of them told us that they would prefer to ask some of their customers to submit positive reviews. Tea room owners explained that positive comments written by happy customers had more impact than anything they themselves could say. 

Occasionally we hear from a tea room owner who is troubled by a negative review and wishes to respond. When this happens we offer to post a response. A few tea room owners have taken us up on this offer and we have in fact published their responses. (If you are a tea room owner who wishes to respond to a review, please keep your comments brief and professional.) 

We have also removed reviews when it is demonstrated that they are factually inaccurate (for example, when the details provided do not match the identified tea room), and we do our best to screen out reviews whose authors appear to be using a negative review to promote another business or to intentionally mislead our readers in any way. Fortunately this does not happen often.   
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Some tea room owners have asked us to rank the tea rooms in our directory. But we're not going to. Ever. We'd rather let TeaGuide help promote all hard-working tea room owners rather than playing them off against each other. To explain:

Let's say there are two nearby tea rooms that excel at everything: both serve delicious tea and food, service at either one is impeccable, and both places look gorgeous. Tea room #1 is blessed with a clientele that enjoys computing and writing reviews. Customers of tea room #2, however -- while enjoying themselves as much as #1's customers -- are less inclined to being online, or maybe don't care to write reviews. The result? Two wonderful tea rooms, but one has gotten numerous reviews and has a listing displaying very high marks, while the other (just as good, remember) has gotten only a few reviews and so they find themselves ranked lower.

If you're a tea drinker looking for an enjoyable place to drink good tea, which would you be more likely to choose? Most people, if they had to select only one, would pick the more highly-rated tea room. Not necessarily because it's a better place, but simply because more reviews have been written. It happens all the time -- and it just ain't right!

We at TeaGuide do not want to be involved in ranking tea rooms. We prefer to provide detailed, unbiased, standardized descriptions (usually provided by the tea room's owner). This encourages comparison of the services and features each of our tea-drinking readers may be looking for. 

TeaGuide was created to promote tea rooms and tea shops -- not to use tea rooms and tea shops to promote TeaGuide.

Many of the tea rooms listed in TeaGuide have in fact been reviewed by tea lovers who have visited them, and our readers are welcome to browse these reviews for more information. But we at TeaGuide don't feel we should use a ranking system to promote one tea room at the expense of another. 

We just don't see the value of pitting tea rooms against each other, nor of ranking tea rooms within arbitrary and meaningless geographical areas. If you're interested in tea rooms in the Philadelphia area, does it really matter if there's a more highly-rated tea room in Pittsburgh? And we don't see what good it does to compare apples to oranges, as it were: if you want to visit an Asian style tea bar, does it really matter if a Victorian style tea room down the street has gotten a higher rating?

While we don't mean to take anything away from tea rooms whose customers like to publicly rave about them, neither do we want to essentially sabotage any tea room simply because their customers are less fulsome in their praise.

TeaGuide encourages all tea lovers to make decisions about which tea room to visit based on our extensive descriptions, balanced with any reviews that accompany the tea room's listing.

And while we cannot accommodate the handful of owners who've asked us to institute ratings, we do encourage all tea room owners to provide excellent teas, foods, service, and ambiance. Good words will most certainly get out about you if you do!
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In response to readers' requests, we provide extensive detailed information about each tea room or tea shop. As often as not our listings offer more information about a tea room than their own website does, and presents these details in a concise and easy-to-read format. So you find what you're looking for in one place; no need to search through TeaGuide and then through a tea room's website to find the information you want. It's all here! And having all the information in one place allows you to quickly and easily compare the features of one tea room to those of another, to help you decide which you'd like to visit.

If a tea room or tea shop owner asks us to include a link to their website in their listing we will do so, asking only that they post a linkback to TeaGuide on their site. We're very grateful to the many generous tea business owners who link to TeaGuide.

And, of course, not all tea rooms or tea shops have websites.

We don't post tea rooms' email addresses for several reasons: Many tea room owners do not use email. Or they use it very infrequently, so a message might go unread for days, weeks, or months. Most tea rooms do not accept reservations via email. And, in general, email users -- including tea room owners -- tend to change their email addresses too frequently to keep track of them and ensure their accuracy.    
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TeaGuide provides free access to the world's most complete and comprehensive directory of tea rooms, tea shops, and other tea venues worldwide to anyone and everyone who has World Wide Web access. Unfortunately this means that along with genuine tea lovers, any spammer, junk mailer, or "copycat" can view the listings too. 

While TeaGuide content is copyrighted, there seem to be any number of Web users who "help themselves" to TeaGuide listings to populate their online or print publications, or to send spam or junk snailmail. 

TeaGuide recently received an email from one such junk mailer. He expressed his frustration that TeaGuide listings do not include ZIP codes -- thus making it difficult to create junk mailing lists. TeaGuide's response was: Thank you for letting us know that our safeguards work. 

TeaGuide respects the busy entrepreneurs who own and operate retail/service tea businesses, so we do not send junk mail or spam email, nor provide junk/spam mailing lists. If you are a tea room or tea shop owner whose business is listed in TeaGuide and you receive this kind of contact, you can be sure that it did not come from us.

TeaGuide does offer a variety of fee-based promotional services to carefully vetted advertisers whose tea-related products or services we believe to be of interest to our readers. B2B email promotions are sent to members of our opt-in Tea Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) mailing list only. We hope that if you are in the market for tea-related products or services -- consumer or B2B -- you will choose to visit TeaGuide's legitimate, honest supporters.

High-quality tea-related businesses are welcome to contact TeaGuide for details about our promotional services. See our Advertising page for more information.
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We currently add locator maps to all new TeaGuide listings in USA and Canada. Just click the link next to a listing to see a MapQuest® map, which also features driving directions. And we're working on adding mapping to all listings where available (some international locations cannot be mapped), but it may take some time for us to map all of the thousands of TeaGuide listings. Do be patient with us!    
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When we first started publishing TeaGuide in 1997, many of our readers were using old computers and outdated browsers. To allow access to TeaGuide for as many tea lovers as possible, we avoided sophisticated building elements that could crash their systems or otherwise make our site inaccessible. 

These days, so many people are using security devices -- anti-virus software, spam blockers, firewalls, etc. -- that once again we are hearing from readers who appreciate that they can access TeaGuide without problems.

From time to time we will upgrade the format of TeaGuide, but we'll always try to keep it accessible -- and that will probably mean relatively low-tech.   
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TeaGuide is and always has been a non-commercial venture. Our directory was not created for the purpose of selling products.

TeaGuide does provide extensive detailed information about each tea room or tea shop so our readers can search or compare features and find the one(s) that suit their tastes. The information we include in the listings reflects the details our readers have most frequently requested -- often more information than you'll find on a tea room's website.

As a non-commercial service, we don't have a dedicated web server or unlimited resources for hosting an extensive number of photos. In order for us to maintain sufficient web server space and bandwidth we offer a fee-based promotional service, Featured Tea Rooms, and this includes placing a photo with your TeaGuide listing, as well as any additional descriptive details you wish to provide.
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Simply put, we don't like when people wear fur. Never have. We find it an offensive and pointless practice.

When we first started publishing TeaGuide, we knew that some tea rooms offered "dress-up" furs to their customers. We decided not to intrude our personal feelings into TeaGuide listings. But then we started hearing from many of our readers, both in reviews and through direct contact, that they didn't like the idea of furs in tea rooms either. Several tea lovers asked if we could mark the tea rooms that use fur so they could avoid going there. That is why you see "fur alerts."

There are many ways to enjoy tea, and many types of tea service. Fur is never a required element of any tea time, whether Victorian style or otherwise.

Teatime should be soothing and enjoyable. We encourage everyone to enjoy your tea time as you like, wearing whatever you please. But the fact is that being around furs makes a good number of tea drinkers -- and people in general -- feel uncomfortable. And that makes for a very unpleasant teatime. So long as our readers wish to avoid these types of unpleasant experiences, and ask us to provide this alert service, we will continue to do so.   

Occasionally a reader will write to us to point out that Victorians usually wore furs to tea, and that it is a "traditional" part of the tea experience. To those who share this viewpoint, we'd like to ask if you also wear heavy boned corsets that impede your breathing? Do you wear layers and layers of heavy clothing and petticoats? Do you wear a chemise in lieu of a brassiere? Do you wear spats, garters, and celluloid collars? Do you use macassar or other heavy oils in your hair? Do you limit tea times to only the wealthiest strata of society? Do you lock up your teas so the hired help can't steal them? Do you employ young orphans to do the dirtiest work of cleaning up after your tea party, then pay them wages that are barely subsistence? All of these were traditional Victorian tea practices too, although no one in modern times seems to want to replicate these experiences.

Tea is served at a variety of styles of tea rooms. Victorian tea rooms are popular, but you can also enjoy excellent tea times at tea lounges, traditional British tea shops, Asian style tea houses, and many, many others. (Do you dress up as a Mandarin to have tea at a Chinese style tea house? Wear a kilt to a Scottish style tea room, or a sari to an Indian style tea shop?) 

We understand that many people are not bothered by the use of fur. Some rationalize the use of "vintage" furs. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and practices -- including TeaGuide. This is our statement on fur: 

We at TeaGuide do not condone the use of fur for any purpose. Offering fur for "dress-up" or as a decoration is not a necessary component for an enjoyable teatime. Compassionate tea lovers may wish to either voice complaints (politely, of course) to the owners of any tea room or tea shop that uses fur, or simply avoid going there. We post fur warnings in response to the many tea lovers who have complained to us about this practice, and we particularly thank those of you who alert us and our readers about tea rooms that promote the use of fur. Learn more about the cruelty of fur. In the words of Associated Humane Societies: "Wearing fur is not attractive -- it only bespeaks of ignorance and indifference to life." 

Click here to see what some of our readers have to say about this policy. 

TeaGuide bears no obligation to promote tea rooms and shops that engage in the practice of decorating or offering dress-up with furs. When a tea business owner notifies us that they have discontinued this practice and removed all furs from their tea room/shop, we are delighted to place a full listing and help them attract customers (see #1 above). 

Sadly, when we do receive correspondence from people who disagree with our dislike of the use of fur in tea rooms, much of it takes an unpleasant form. This seems to us to speak more about the correspondent than about any issue. It is our policy to delete unpleasant and/or anonymous correspondence -- on any topic -- unread and without responding to the sender. 
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All TeaGuide materials are copyrighted and may not be reprinted or published elsewhere.

Individual tea lovers may print out listings for their personal reference when visiting tea rooms and tea shops. These print-outs may not be transferred to any other party for any purpose.

Under very specific and limited circumstances, and only by parties who accept our reprint terms, brief excerpts from reviews posted at TeaGuide may be reproduced. 

Any other reproduction of our listings, reviews, and/or other materials, whether electronically, in print, or in any other format, has not received permission from TeaGuide and is in violation of U.S. and international copyright law.

Please see our Copyrights & Reprints section for more details. 
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No. TeaGuide is a non-commercial venture with no advertising budget. Our only "advertising" is through online links from other websites, and offline mentions in various print media. 

To link to TeaGuide or swap links, see our Linkback section. 
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TeaGuide accepts a limited number of advertisements from high-quality businesses whose content is appropriate for our readers. For more information, please see our Advertising section.   
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Thank you for the thought, but TeaGuide does not accept donations. If you would like to make a donation in our name, please contact us and we will supply you with a brief list of organizations that we support. Or see our Advertising section.

To discuss corporate sponsorship of TeaGuide, please contact us with particulars.    
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TeaGuide swaps links with a limited number of high-quality related websites. For more details, see our Links page.  
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That's an easy one!

You're invited to join Teamail, our consumer-oriented discussion group.

Tea business owners should also join TEA-Online, our business-to-business professional networking group.
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