Monday, 26 December 2011

  • Adonia Tea House in Kerrisdale, Vancouver

    This is a guest post from ChowTimes.

    Polly and I went to Adonia Tea House for another high tea. We enjoyed the mini high tea at The Secret Garden Tea that we want to try more.

    Driving past the area, we would not have figured that Adona is a tea house. From the earthy tone building and a name like Adonia, we would have thought that this is a Greek restaurant. 


    Adonia Tea House is decorated with flower wall paper and very lady like decoration. We believe that this is Chinese owned as we heard some of the people behind the counter speak in Mandarin.

    It’s all about the beautiful tea cup, saucer and plate when coming to English tea.

    Polly and I went for the mini high tea for $17.00 per person. The mini high tea comes with a sampling of 7 pieces of mini sweets and savories accompanied by your choice of tea. Unlike The Secret Garden Tea, we are not allowed …to  choose our items. So, we practically get a double of each item for the two of us.

    The tea here is kept warm with tealight candle. Polly ordered a Green Tea Gingko which has a herbalish flavour.

    I asked for recommendation from the server and she suggested 3 for me. I picked one of them but did not take note of the tea because the server told me that the tea menu can be found on their website. However when I tried to look for it when I got home, I could not find it on their menu. Anyway, my tea tasted just like regular tea, no specific flavour to it.

    Adonia serves rock sugar for sweetener for the tea. We found that they dont melt as easily as cube sugar. Need to give it a good stir.

    Service wise, it’s not as attentive as The Secret Garden Tea. We have to wave down the server to ask for our teapot to be refilled. Perhaps the place was too busy at that time. We also noticed that the customer base here is more Asian.

    We started off the the savory items. The first was Egg Sandwich. It was a tall sandwich. We have to compress it in order to bite into it and the egg filings were squeezed out.

    The next item we tried was the Cucumber Sandwich. Pardon me for forgetting to take the picture. The cucumber sandwich was filled with multiple paper thin sliced cucumber and it was refreshing. The last sandwich was Ham and Cheese Sandwich which we have nothing to comment on.


    The last savory item was Chicken Croissant. The croissant was crispy. What we like was that the slice of apple in it which complements the chicken well. Polly liked it so much that on our way home, she bought croissant and a gourmet chicken patty from Costco to make this for her kids.


    We then move on to the mini sweets. There were two brownies in our mini sweets. The one on the left was Brownie with Walnut and Pine Nut. It was dryísh and crumbly. The one on the right is just called brownie. This was more moist and more cocoa flavour. We preferred the one on the right.

    We had one each of the above Strawberry Cake. It is topped with a raspberry instead. I guess a strawberry is way too big for such a mini cake.


    We had to share the Lemon Meringue Pie as there is only one. We dont mind sharing since we just want to get a taste of everything.

    The last item was Fruit Tart. The tart base was very hard, like a crusty cookie. It has a custard filling.

    Although we get more pieces here, I find that the quality of the mini sweets are better in The Secret Garden Tea in my opinion. You get more value for your money here though. Adonia accepts credit cards.

    Besides high tea, Adonia also serves soup, salad and sandwiches.

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Comments (4)

  • maybmaybnot@xanga

    Looks nice for an outing!
  • o0_Innocent_0o@xanga

    Have you been to Faubourg? it's so good :3 
  • liquid_s@xanga

    i am the queen of teas & i have been to both the ones you mentioned in addition to a handful of others. i just havenèt been to every single one in vancouver since i donèt have time or people to go with. and mainly cuz if i like a place, ièd rather return than try a new place & wish i had spent the money elsewhere. secret gardens creamy earl grey is the reason i went twice, but i only went once to adonia & never again. i donèt like some of the secret garden sandwiches while some of the desserts are too sweet (all that extra frosting & chocolate & stuff) & i donèt think adonia is anything special at all. just very average. and yes, the asian population is what makes the washroom disgusting. no one can pee accurately into the toilet due to the way they treat toilets. nor do they bother to wipe it up.


    let me tell you where to go & i guarantee you will think they are fantastic & better than the ones you mentioned because for me, tea is about the experience as well. How much room they give you, how they treat you when you make a reservation, what the place looks like & sounds like are as important as how much food they give you & the quality of food. Ièd suggest you to try instead urban tea merchant (so unique, tasty & hugest selection of teas in vancouver), london tea house (for the experience, their own tea, and homemade, not too sweet goodies), faubourg (sandwiches arent unique but stil taste great & desserts are unique & divine), olympic fairmont in seattle (for the experience & food) and langham hotel (based on sheer uniqueness, price, & taste) in london, uk. i think bacchus lounge was pretty good too but itès only open on the weekends & i can never go on the weekend so i havenèt gotten to try it again. i

    sutton hotelès food is similar to but a bit better than secret garden. their sandwiches & desserts are slightly better & itès a hotel & way quieter. between these two, i cant say for sure which is better. my ranking from best to worst: langham hotel, olympic fairmont, urban tea merchant, london house (actualy because theres less food), bacchus, faubourg, sutton, secret garden, adonia.   
  • reflection_7@xanga

    Those mini cakes look adorable! 

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