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By popular demand, we are hosting a second Christmas Late-Night Shopping Event. Complete with mulled wine, Christmas music and mince pies we will be opening on Thursday 3rd December from 9:30am to 8:30pm. There’ll be plenty of new ideas to help you with your Christmas shopping.

Christmas opening dates are as follows:

Saturday 19th December 10.30-4pm
Sunday 20th December 10.30-4pm
Monday 21st December 9.30-4pm
Tuesday 22nd December 9.30-4pm

For the first time in the Tea Room’s history, we will open on a Sunday (20th), and we will mark this occasion with a Christmas Carol Service provided by ‘Just Sing Community Choir’ starting at 2pm. We’d love to invite you and hope to make this a real village affair. Please come and join in the fun and have a sing-song and enjoy a mulled wine or hot chocolate. No previous singing experience necessary, just warm clothes!

We re-open for the new spring season on Tuesday 9th February 2016.

All of the team here wish you a happy and healthy Christmas and warm wishes for 2016.

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 3rd 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 complimentary mulled wine to ease you into the festive spirit!

Please come along and enjoy a beautiful festive evening at Brewery Tea Room. There will also be the opportunity to support our on-going charity work by purchasing a Christmas Raffle Ticket helping to support one of our chosen Cancer charities.

Thank You to everyone who so kindly supported our sixth annual Macmillan Fundraising Day, last Friday 25th September, here at Brewery Tearooms.

For those of you who were unable to attend, it was a truly heartwarming day with fine weather for our 1920’s themed gala garden party.

Live jazz set the scene (so generously donated by George Howe – The Music Man) with flapper girls, ‘gatsby-suited gents’ and Victorian bathers all a feast for the eyes

The garden attractions included a giant bric-a-brac sale, bottle tombola, raffle, silent auction and ‘guess the mileage on the vintage sports car ‘. A steady stream of customers kept us busy all day and copious amounts of home-made cakes and scones were consumed.

Our ‘Best-dressed 1920’s outfit’ was a tie-break and there were many generous donations and lots of laughter.

In summary it was a fun-filled fundraising day and we are delighted to announce our total raised exceeds £3100.00, We are truly thankful to everyone who said ‘keep the change’, helped on the day, donated their time or a raffle prize, baked a cake, or generally supported the event. A special mention also to my wonderful staff who worked so hard before, during and afterwards and remained smiling throughout. Paul Gray who daringly sported a stripey Victorian bathing outfit (in case you didn’t recognise him on the day!) did a brilliant job on the raffle again.

Thanks again for helping to make our day a ‘roaring success’. The amount we raised will hopefully give comfort to someone suffering from cancer.

Sarah and all at Brewery Tea Room

This September, we are hosting our sixth annual Macmillan Fundraising Day at Brewery Tea Room, the theme will be “A 1920’s Summer” and, weather permitting, will be a fabulous garden party, filled with stalls of pre-loved clothing, bric-a-brac and books.Imagine Downton Abbey at the beach, a summer party with the Great Gatsby, don your straw boaters and crocheted swimwear, 1920’s summer dresses and parasols.  We will have beauty treatments in the summer-house and entertainment, to be announced, throughout the day. Of course we will be serving delicious home-baked cakes and scones, our usual selection of loose leaf teas and freshly ground coffees.

The past five years have been a huge success and have enabled us to raise over £20,000 for this fantastic charity that touches the lives of so many of us. We are committed to raising further funds for the Macmillan Centre at Lister Hospital and are calling on you, our wonderful customers and friends to help us in doing this.

We are in need of all sorts of donations, from bric-a-brac, good quality women’s clothing and paperbacks, to prizes for our Bottle Tombola (think lovely bubble bath and bottles of fizz!) We are also looking for some show-stopping raffle prizes  – how are your powers of persuasion, can you help us to get something fabulous?! If you would like to help on the day, we would love to welcome you to the Macmillan Day Team.

As always, we couldn’t do any of this without You, our generous and supportive friends. Here’s to another brilliant event, helping our community through our actions together. We can’t wait to have a fantastic day of costumes, coffee and cake and look forward to receiving any kind donations you are able to give to make this event another big success.

As you know, we are closed at the moment for our annual summer break, and are looking forward to welcoming you through our doors once again from Tuesday 1st September.

After a fantastic July, with customers and friends filling the Tea Room with their warmth and happiness, we have closed our doors for our annual Summer break. During this time we are beavering away working on our Macmillan Fundraising Day, dusting the chandeliers and sourcing fabulous new recipes and giftware.

Stay tuned for a big Macmillan announcement later in August as we prepare for another phenomenal fundraising extravaganza. Save the date on Friday 25th September to come along and support this amazing cause. We are looking for bottles and unopened gifts for our tombola, good-quality clothing, paperbacks and homewares for our stalls and any time you can spare to help us out on the day would be greatly appreciated – do let us know if you would like to be involved in any way!

In the meantime, we wish you a fabulous summer, may it be filled with cups of tea in the sunshine, trips to the beach and many bites of delicious cake!

Although it’s wet and windy in Walkern, we are dreaming of the splendid Summer sunshine. Delicious lemon and sultana scones are fresh from the oven, raspberry vanilla cheesecake is going down a treat and roast tomato and herb soup is helping us all recover from the rainy days.

Brewery Tea Room will be closing for our annual Summer break, after service on Saturday 1st August so that we can collect new recipes, hunt for sparkly new treasure for our gift shop and sweep the crumbs from all the nooks and crannies. We will then be re-opening on Tuesday 1st September.

We are delighted that 2015 has been a fantastic year so far, the Herts Food and Drink Award stands proudly in the Tea Room – do come and take a look if you haven’t yet. Thank you all so much for making our Tea Room the brilliant success that it is. Here’s to a happy and healthy summer to all xx

After weeks of anticipation, the votes have finally been counted and our whole team are very excited to announce some fantastic news. On Monday, Shendish Manor hosted the Hertfordshire Food and Drink Awards ceremony, and a chorus of cheers filled the room as the Brewery Tea Room was awarded first place in the category of Best Independent Tea/Coffee Shop. The winners have been chosen wholly on votes from members of the public, and with thirty seven other nominations in this category and fierce competition across the whole of Hertfordshire, we are so very proud and humbled by your support.

As you might expect, there has been much celebration here, the champagne cork has been popped and we have all toasted to this great accolade. The messages of encouragement and congratulations from you, our community of customers and friends, are what makes the Tea Room the phenomenal success that it is, as recognised by this prestigious award. We are honoured to be a part of Walkern’s village life and thrilled that our customers come from near and far to share in the Tea Room’s magic.

We are truly delighted to have won and want to thank everyone that took the trouble to vote for us, it means a lot. It is a lovely boost for the Tea Room Team to know that all their hard work is recognised, and suggests that you enjoy visiting us as much as we enjoy serving you!

Please come in soon and see our lovely winners’ plaque – we couldn’t have done it without you.

As the beans are being freshly ground and the loose leaf tea is steeping, we await news of our place in the Hertfordshire Food and Drink Awards. Over the past month you have been overwhelmingly supportive of our nomination for this prestigious award, thank you for every one of your votes. In the meantime, we are serving you a delicious selection of brand new recipes, including Raspberry Ripple Victoria, Caramel Latte Cake and St Clement’s Bundt. Watch this space for news of our exciting new ranges of furniture and homeware, to inspire the interior designer in you.

We are are really proud to have been nominated in the category of Best Independant Tea and Coffee Shop. With so many great businesses in this category we are even more excited to be in the TOP FIVE, this means that every vote counts now – if the Brewery Tea Room is just your cup of tea, please cast your vote for us here.  With just days to go until the closing date on May 1st we need your support. Thank you for helping us to create a business worth celebrating!

Easter has arrived at Brewery Tea Room, our freshly baked Neapolitan Easter Victoria is going down a treat, along with a festive Simnel Tart. The Rocky Road is paved with chocolate eggs and the hot cross buns are in the oven. Easter decorations and goodies are filling the Gift Shop, alongside all our usual lines, so come along and take a look at our pretty springtime displays.

The Tea Room will be closing for our Easter break at 4pm on Thursday 2nd April and re-opening on Tuesday 7th April. We would like to wish you a wonderful Easter time and look forward to welcoming you soon.