Abigail's Tea Room

[verrucaria]

Yesterday we went to Abigail's Tea Room, adjacent to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum (haven't been to the ships/museum yet). We didn't know what to expect. It turned out that the tea room only offered 2 tea flavors: one black tea supposedly similar to what was tossed into the harbor in 1773 and a strawberry-apple tea replacement reminiscent

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[coanteen]

But did it have delicious scones?

[verrucaria]

Not when we were there, oddly enough. The pastry selection does dwindle as the day goes on, though, and we got there pretty late... :( We had clam chowder and then these heavy, buttery cookies topped with raspberry preserve. In addition to the tea.

[rgfgompei]

I'm not sure what I think of a tea room that is so little about being a tea room and so much about being a touristy gimmick. It sounds like it was nonetheless surprisingly good, and if one has fun, then who cares, but it sounds so... not tea room like.

[verrucaria]

It's not tea-room-like. The pluses were that the tea was good (both kinds of it!) and that it was pretty dead, so you could spend a few hours at a relatively low cost without anyone bothering you. I don't know if it's always that dead. It was a Saturday, though, so I was surprised.