Wishing a Happy New Year to all our friends and customers.  It was a momentous year for the Tearooms, collecting a second award in November. This time for ‘Outstanding Customer Service’, which you can read all about in the current edition of Hertfordshire Life.  The picture above was taken on a night out celebrating our win and you will see our certificate and plate proudly adorning our wall when you next come and visit.

The Christmas cobwebs and pine-needles have all been swept away and our coffee machine is polished and ready to get to work.  Our team are all looking forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 24  January, just a couple of weeks before Valentine’s Day (booking details to follow). The Brewery kitchen is already in the swing of things, testing out some new winter-warming soup recipes, along with our favourite home-made cakes and scones.  Sarah and the shop fairies are currently busy at work, re-stocking our pretty gift shop and sourcing new ranges for the forthcoming Spring season.

Thank you to everyone who helped us raise lots of money for charity in our Christmas raffle and by supporting our lovely festive carol service.  Together we raised over £1,100,.oo which we are delighted to donate to Cancer Hair Care to help children and teenagers fighting cancer. Once again, the wonderful Stevenage Community Choir came along on the 22nd December and provided a fantastic carol service, all so generously donating their time.

We look forward to offering you a warm welcome in 2017.

Sarah, Nigel and all the Brewery team X

Get in the festive spirit and join in with carols sung by the Community Choir at Brewery Tearooms, from 2pm this Sunday.

As it is the last Sunday before Christmas we are open from 10.30am to 4pm.

We are also open on Monday, 19^th December with our last day being Thursday, 22^nd before our winter break.

Happy Christmas and thanks to all those who have supported us during 2016.

Sarah & the team x

Come and get cozy, and beat the High Street crowds at Brewery Tearooms. Why not relax with a luxury hot white chocolate and browse our lovely gift shop! We will be open this Sunday (4/12/16 – 12pm-4pm).
Also, enter our free draw to win a £30-00 voucher to spend at the nearby Bucklands Christmas Barn. To enter just share the event via the Facebook post (as per link) and like our page. We’ll draw the winner on the day. x

Visit your double-award winning Tearoom and Gift Shop on Thursday, 24th November 2016 (9.30am-8.30pm) for our Christmas Shopping Event running throughout the day and into the evening. As darkness descends the tea room will be filled with twinkling candlelight and we will be serving complimentary mulled wine and mince pies. From delightful decorations to gorgeous gifts and homewares, you’re sure to fall in love with something here at the Brewery Tearooms Gift Shop. Also enter our free draw to win a voucher for Champagne High Tea for two, just share the event via the post on Facebook and like our Facebook page to enter (shortcut on this page). We will draw the winner on the night of the event. x

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….Beautiful hand-picked gifts and decorations are arriving on a daily basis here at the Brewery Tea rooms. For the early and (organised) Christmas shoppers amongst you, we’ll be hosting our first preview event of the season on
Tuesday 1st November
We will be opening the doors at 9.30am through until 8.30 pm for a newly re-stocked and sparkly winter grotto of gorgeous gifts, seasonal home ware and beautiful decorations – and to celebrate this brand new season, to offer you Christmas canapés, candlelight and mulled wine to ease you into the festive spirit!

Please come along and enjoy a beautiful festive evening at Brewery Tearooms.

Thank you to everyone who so kindly supported our seventh annual Macmillan Fundraiser over last weekend (Friday 30 September – Sunday 2 October).

For those of you who were unable to attend, it was a truly heart-warming day with plenty of cowboys, Indians, squaws and saloon girls participating in our ‘Wild-West’ themed weekend.

The garden attractions included a giant bric-a-brac sale, ‘panning for gold’ tombola, silent auction and raffle. A steady stream of customers filled the tearooms with laughter and copious amounts of scones, teas & coffees were consumed.

It was a fun filled day, setting the scene for our first charity bike ride on Sunday. Over 40 riders set off with a choice of two routes, 20km and 50km through the Hertfordshire countryside.

We are truly thankful to everyone who said ‘keep the change’, donated, helped over the three days, baked a cake or supported the event.

A special mention also to my wonderful staff who worked so hard before, during and afterwards, and smiled throughout. Paul Gray, a volunteer, once again did a fabulous job selling raffle tickets.

The combined total raised this year will exceed £5,000-00 and will be divided equally between Macmillan and Cancer Hair Care. The funds will, hopefully, help give comfort to someone suffering with cancer.

Thanks again, we couldn’t have done it without you….

Sarah and all at Brewery Tearooms   x

We are almost there, our Wild West themed Macmillan charity day – this Friday 30 September. Come and join us at the Brewery Saloon! The cowboy music is rolling, so come and enjoy a whole host of attractions including our legendary raffle, silent auction (6 items valued over a £1,000), panning for gold tombola, rails of pre-loved clothing, bric-a-brac and much more. Of course we will be serving delicious coffee and freshly-baked cakes from 9.30 until 4.00  This is all for fantastic causes, Macmillan and Cancer Hair Care, and we hope you can join us.

This year is a little different as we will be fundraising all weekend. We start our fundraising campaign with the Macmillan Coffee Morning (Friday, 30 September), which is the 7th year we have hosted this event. It will be lots of fun as our theme this year is the Wild West, so don your cowboy outfits and join us at the Brewery Saloon! The weekend will conclude with the Tearooms opening on Sunday, 2 October and supporting the inaugural charity bike rides from Walkern, along with events for the family in the school grounds. See our Facebook and Twitter feeds for further detail.

This fundraising weekend is dedicated to anyone who has had a brush with cancer or been on, or is on,  the journey. If you’re in the ‘special club’, as I like to call it, it puts everything into perspective and helps us to appreciate the simple things in life.

All the funds raised this weekend will be shared between Macmillan and Cancer Hair Care.

We look forward to seeing you.

Sarah and the team x

We hope you are all enjoying the sunshine, just a reminder for our forthcoming charity weekend starting with the Macmillan coffee morning (see below) and ending with the inaugural charity bike ride with Cancer Hair Care (reg’d no 1145258) on Sunday 2 October. We are supporting the rides and will be opening for the day, further details to follow. Make it a date!

 Brewery Tea Room is in the holiday mood. We are serving iced Pina Colada tea and delicious raspberry and white chocolate meringues, freshly baked brie and bacon pastry turnovers with home-made coleslaw and deliciously squishy nectarine and amaretti tart. So even if the weather outside isn’t tropical, you can be sure of a little bit of sun in the Brewery Tea Room and a very warm welcome!

We will be closing for our annual break at the end of the day on Saturday 30th July 2016. This year, however, our August closure will be a little shorter than usual – due to popular demand – You asked and we listened! We will be re-opening a week earlier on Tuesday 23rd August at 9.30 and can’t wait to share some of the holiday spirit with you.