This weekend if you're hitting the Christmas shopping, on a romantic date or just out and about enjoying the attractions (you'll find us in Hyde Park's winter wonderland), then why not also grab a warm cup of tea and a tasty slice of stolen (or a mince pie too) in a cosy bolt hole?
We're definitely going to do that, and if we were up in the North of England we'd head straight to Betty's.With grand chocolate tortes, petit fours, chocolate panforte, spiced panetone, advent cakes, chocolate orange biscuits and more to catch your eye, package up to take home or just devour, Betty's is the ultimate winter tea house. Being one of the most famous tea shops in a country famous for its high tea, the first shop was opened in 1919 by a Swiss orphan, Frederick Belmont. He'd arrived in London and asked to go to a town that sounded like "Bratwurst" , he luckily ended up in Bradford and it was there that the idea of Betty's was created. Belmont served up mouth-watering Swiss confectionary within a warm Yorkshire atmosphere which has remained central to the company since. Betty's is famous for its tea, which should come as no surprise as the company purchased the tea blenders Taylors of Harrogate in 1962, which soon became one of the UK's most popular tea companies by selling the hotly demanded Yorkshire Tea. Now Betty's has 6 cafes, a bakery school and revenues of £88.7 million (2010).
One enchanting thing is that to this day the identity of Betty remains a family mystery.
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