Never Again
I am the Director of The Virginia Tea Society. Our group visited the With Flair Tea Room on Saturday, June 21, 2008. Our reservations were for 1:00 and had been placed several months ago. We arrived at 12:45 assuming that we would have time to set up for our meeting/tea. When we arrived the tea room was completely full of other parties. We waited on the front porch of the tearoom, outside in the heat, we finally decided to hold our meeting there since we had no idea when we would have access to our room. We were offered ice water but it was never served. When The bridal shower attendees came out they said they had no idea that there was another party waiting. After waiting approximately forty minutes, we were told that we could have access to our room. They offered two kinds of fruit teas and the service on that was slow. No lemon was served and only four sugar cubes for a table of four. The tea was called a Royal Tea but was actually an Afternoon Tea. The food that was provided seemed to be leftovers from the previous party. The sandwiches were dry and had very little filling. The scones were dry and hard and they did not serve clotted cream, just some type of whipped cream. The desserts were partially melted and hard to handle. I feel that the event was poorly handled, there was no suggestion of a reduction in price, in fact according to their menu, we were overcharged. Greed will cost them customers. I will not go there again nor will I recommend them to any else.