55 Kingsway Street, Vancouver (Mount Pleasant)
Self-dubbed as "Vancouver's newest high tea", La Petite Cuillere is located on Kingsway just off of Main Street in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. The space itself is very different on the outside, and quite unassuming if not for the telltale round sign with the drawing of a spoon on it (as 'la petite cuillere' means 'little spoon' in French). But once you walk in, it's almost as if every grandmother came together to design this space. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, though if you're afraid of floral print, this may not be the place for you. However, I found the whole space to be quite endearing. My sisters and I made a reservation and were seated right away at an old looking table in front of a very old looking cabinet that was filled with different floral-patterned china tea cup sets. This is probably one of my favourite parts of high tea - using the fine bone china! We each had the 'High Tea', which is $14.25 a person. This includes unlimited tea from their tea collection, two sandwiches, two sweets, and a scone complete with fruit preserves and Devonshire cream, all on the classic tiered tray. Our 'sandwiches' included a tuna salad tart and a salami, cheese and cucumber on foccacia bread, and the sweets was a miniature slice of cheesecake and a vanilla cake with lemon cream. Aside from the High Tea, we also got three macarons: an early grey, a black sesame, and a lemon flavoured one. The high tea items were not really spectacular though they all tasted great. My personal favourite was the cake: the lemon frosting was super light and not heavy like some cakes can be. The macarons were okay too, though I found them to be exceptionally chewy, which I am not used to. The entire high tea experience at La Petite Cuillere was great, and you can really tell that the family that owns it puts a lot of heart into what they do. Would recommend!
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