April 18, 2010

Madame Hatter’s Tea Room

Posted in Tea Rooms at 1:52 pm by lparente

April 17 2010: Embedded within the restaurant is a small alcove where guests can borrow hats, boas, gloves, and other womanly accessories to where while they enjoy their afternoon tea, giving them that old time Victorian experience.

Continuing my quest of exploring new tearooms around Kansas, today I treated my mother to lunch and afternoon tea at Madame Hatter’s Tea Room located at 228 Oak Street, Bonner Springs, Kansas.

Neither of us had been here before and when we walked through the door, I was taken aback by the décor in dining area. It’s adorable!

The colors are light springtime colors and just about every inch of the room is covered in decorations. Old fashioned dolls, hat boxes, and purses are displayed on the walls, along with flowery wreaths, ribbons, and bows. Frilly Victorian umbrellas hang from the ceiling and most of the tables have white lace tablecloths and artificial flowers.

It’s very girly, so men, be prepared. Madame Hatter’s Tea Room seems like the perfect place for mothers and daughters to bond and a great place for girl talk.

When we arrived at Madame Hatter’s, the staff was setting up for a baby shower. For special events like this, Madame Hatter’s is an ideal venue.

It turned out to be an ideal venue for my mother and I to catch up and enjoying an afternoon together.

The service was great! Everyone was very attentive, pleasant, and friendly. Our server wore a pink flowered apron and immediately offered us our choice of tea, iced tea or hot tea.

Today’s iced tea special was white sweet raspberry tea, but my mother, who loves iced teas, chose a regular sweet tea, her first sweet tea to be exact. Let’s just say it lived up to her expectations.

Since I am a more traditional tea drinker, I chose hot tea. The server brought over an old-fashioned purple teapot and set it on the table along with a cup and saucer.

I looked over at the other tables and noticed that each table had their own unique looking teapot. One teapot was white with large colorful polka dots and another was blue with stripes.

Along with the teapot came an assortment of hot tea bags to choose from. Madame Hatter’s carries fun teas like gogiberry green tea, strawberry pomegranate, and chai French vanilla, among other flavors.

First, I chose was black tea & bergamot, followed by blueberry bliss. They were both enjoyable, but blueberry bliss was the w

inner for the day. The taste was smooth, gentle, and slightly sweet. I discovered that I like blueberry tea and since this experience I have brewed my own blueberry tea at home.

After enjoying our tea for a bit, the server came back to take our lunch order.

We decided on the full-service lunch, which includes tea of our choice, a house salad with Italian dressing, an entree, a signature side dish, and a dessert.

I chose their most popular entree called Our Famous Chicken Salad. As their menu reads its “white herbed chicken, grapes, celery, green onion, and pecans on a buttery croissant.” It was delicious.

I especially liked the hint of crunchiness from the celery and I thought that putting grapes in the chicken salad was creative. I’d never seen grapes in a chicken salad before. I loved that! The signature side dish today was a creamy pasta salad with a tiny fruit cup.

For dessert, I chose Madame Hatter’s scone of the day. It was blueberry and came with a spread of Devon shire cream. The scone paired nicely with my blueberry bliss tea.

Overall, a cute place!

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