High Tea at Martha's PantrySo winter kinda sucks, and the eco­nomy sucks, and the gov­ern­ment sucks, and everything pretty much sucks. Except oh wait, do you know what does­n’t suck? Tea and cakes and good com­pany! So as the first of a series of posts of Cheer­ing Upness, we’d like to recom­mend that you book your­self and an adored friend in for High Tea at Martha’s Pantry, a lovely little place at the top of Cuba Street that has old­school tea cups and all kinds of girlie pretty stuff on dis­play. You’ll need to give them 24 hours notice, but for $20 each, this is an aprox­im­a­tion of what you’ll get:

  • Club sand­wiches (I think the stand­ards are pas­trami and egg, but when I asked for no egg they were happy to sub­sti­tute, so I’m sure vegos can be catered for with ease)
  • Cheese savour­ies
  • Spin­ach muffins
  • Baby scones with two types of jam and cream
  • Almond slice
  • Chocol­ate car­a­mel slice
  • Baby cup­cakes

You also get to choose your tea from a range of like 20 vari­et­ies. I can recom­mend the Earl Grey, the South Afric­an Honey Chai, and Vanilla Roobi­os, but the mint and lem­on kawa kawa wer­en’t as awe­some as I had hoped they would be. While you eat and drink, we sug­gest that you dis­cuss ways to save the world, and also just relax and enjoy yourselves. Lovely.