Scones. The raisins are optional and the management has views.
Finch’s Tea Room is at the pier end of the High Street, between the newsagent and a gift shop. Mrs Beatrice Finch has kept it for more than twenty years. Her brother Colin is behind the counter.
The room is warm and smells of butter and of whatever has just come out of the oven. Tea comes in a pot with a small jug of hot water, and regular customers find that it arrives before they have asked for it. Scones are baked fresh each morning. On some mornings they contain raisins, and no notice is given.
There are biscuits in a display case on the counter and hanging baskets at the door. The table by the window looks out on the pier and the promenade. A smaller table stands beside a shelf of paperbacks, which Mrs Finch keeps stocked for customers who come in alone.
Tables are not reserved. The one by the window and the one in the corner are usually taken. Mrs Finch asks that the sugar bowls remain on the tables.
Details
- Address
- High Street, at the pier end, next door to the newsagent
- Proprietor
- Mrs Beatrice Finch
- Hours
- Every day, 8 to 6
- Last pot of tea at 5.30
On the map
Marked on the town map.
Appears in
- Book 0Prequel A Small Matter of a Missing Cat
- Book 1 Murder at Seabrook Pier
- Book 2 Grounds for Murder
- Book 3 The Seabrook Regatta Sabotage
What the locals say
“People drive a fair way for those scones. She’d never say so herself.”
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