Soho is perhaps better known for other trades rather than psychic readings, but, one of its many famous pubs, the Coach and Horses in Greek Street, has decided to open a vintage tea room and feature psychic tea leaf reading as part of its lure!
Next Friday and Saturday it will host an event with “clairvoyant” Amber Garnet, whose talents include tarot, palm reading and tea leaf reading.
Pub owner Alastair Choat said he hoped the event would promote the room, which was inspired by his passion for antiques.
“My wife and I are very into old-fashioned crockery,” he said. “We visited various tea rooms and there was nothing that was quite what we wanted. They were basically just cafés, although some effort had gone into them, and the hotels that do high tea are hugely expensive. You sit there and it’s all a bit too stiff and scary. We felt we could do something with this room during the afternoon that was totally dedicated to tea.”
There are 16 different types of tea are available, including a variety “only picked on two days of the year at dawn by women”, and all are sourced from a trader in London’s traditional tea district, Bermondsey.
Staff wear clothes from yesteryear and songs by Glenn Miller and Bing Crosby crackle from a record player.
Mr Choat said: “A lot of care and attention is placed on coffee and having these really good baristas who make patterns in the froth, and they’re all in competition.
“People don’t make that sort of effort with tea and yet there is a real art to it.”
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