Serenitea
Serenitea is the perfect little hideaway. It is located just outside of the Oak Park shopping district on a quiet side street. Serenitea offers some of the same aspects of traditional vintage tea rooms. They serve a vintage style menu for breakfast and lunch. Their loose leaf tea is served in eclectic tea cups and saucers. Serenitea specializes in Afternoon Tea. Traditional Three Tier Afternoon Tea comes with an assortment of finger sandwiches, scones and miniature deserts with an individual pot of tea for each guest. Most importantly they offer a place to relax or to discuss the days events. While most people come in with a party of 2 or 4, they can also host groups up to 30 or 40 people.
This is a tradition that started with 7th Duchess of Bedford and lives on in a tea house in Oak Park. When you get tired of the everyday come here, raise your pinky and and dine like a Duchess. Serenitea tea house is casual and children are welcome.
Serenitea is the perfect little hideaway. It is located just outside of the Oak Park shopping district on a quiet side street. Serenitea offers some of the same aspects of traditional vintage tea rooms. They serve a vintage style menu for breakfast and lunch. Their loose leaf tea is served in eclectic tea cups and saucers. Serenitea specializes in Afternoon Tea. Traditional Three Tier Afternoon Tea comes with an assortment of finger sandwiches, scones and miniature deserts with an individual pot of tea for each guest. Most importantly they offer a place to relax or to discuss the days events. While most people come in with a party of 2 or 4, they can also host groups up to 30 or 40 people.
This is a tradition that started with 7th Duchess of Bedford and lives on in a tea house in Oak Park. When you get tired of the everyday come here, raise your pinky and and dine like a Duchess. Serenitea tea house is casual and children are welcome.
HISTORICAL FACT: Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford is said to have complained of “having that sinking feeling” during the late afternoon. The solution for the Duchess was a pot of tea and a light snack, taken privately in her boudoir during the afternoon. Later friends were invited to join her in her room at Woburn Abbey and that summer the practice proved so popular that the Duchess continued it when she returned to London, sending cards to her friends asking them to join her for “tea and a walk in the fields.” Other social hostesses quickly picked up on the idea and the practice became respectable enough to move it into the drawing room. Before long all of fashionable society was sipping tea and nibbling sandwiches in the middle of the afternoon.
CONTACT:
Address: 1046 Pleasant Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302
Telephone: 708-660-9670
Main website: http://sereniteaoakpark.com/index.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SereniteaOakPark
Email: serenitea05@gmail.com
Hours:
Monday - Closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday - 8:30 to 5:00
Thursday and Saturday - 8:30 to 6:30
Sunday - 10:00 to 5:00