Queen Mary tea room - Seattle

After few weekends checking the Eastside Indian and Chinese cuisine, I have decided to go back to the old Europe and try something…let’s say British. So that’s how I got to Queen Mary Tea Room in Seattle.
Location is pretty easy to find, a little further away from university district, at approx five minutes from University Village. The sign is easily seen from the street and there is also plenty of available parking on the street. The place is exactly as described in the name ... a large room with around eight to ten tables.
Right at the entrance there is a big cage with a pair of the "royal pigeons" - the mascots of the room. The interior is decorated in the British style, with curtains, china cups and pots as ornaments on the shelves on the walls. The porcelain cups are Made in England, the cutlery on the tables look like silver although I cannot bet that they really are silver. On each table there is a small porcelain bowl with sugar whose granules are multicolored, besides that there is a small device with three small hourglasses or clepsydras filled with sand of different colors that are adjusted to flow to different concentrations for tea. For example for a stronger tea the hourglass would flow for 4 minutes, for a milder one for 3 minutes and so on.
Location is very busy and you should make reservations the day before. The service is excellent and the waiters have demonstrated good knowledge about teas. The menu is full of all kinds of tea, everything from Chinese tea, to Indian and Russian tea. In other words, this little tea house is a dream for tea connoisseurs.
As usual for food I ordered a number of items so I could get a better impression about the quality of cuisine. I had kidney and lamb in phyllo pastry and Westminster which contained different cheeses, ham and spinach. Both proved to have excellent taste, the kidneys had a delicious flavor and the Westminster was also a delight.
The tea room is mainly targeted to mothers, daughters, girlfriends and/or grandmothers, and although I was one of the only three men serving tea over there, I cannot for a minute say that I felt out of place in any way. It was a great experience and I encourage everyone to come and try to become a tea drinker.
Location - B +
Services - A
Price - B -(rather expensive)

Disclaimer - the pictures are taken of the Internet, are not made by me