Wear Your Bows: Tea Review: Muir's Tea Room

I was able to finally make it to Muir's Tea Room! It's located in Sebastopol so it's quite a ways away from me and most of the rest of the Bay. It's unique though in that is an entirely vegan menu and the theme changes around every month or so! This month happened to be Alice in Wonderland theme ♣️

This tea place is really far away and definitely needs a carpool or someone ok with driving quiet a bit if you're coming from the peninsula or south bay it was 2 hours from ~San Jose in really good traffic. I did not make the reservations but apparently it was a bit confusing though they were able to accommodate changes to the reservation by phone. The entire menu is vegan and they had a gluten free vegan tea available also!

Ease of access (location, hours, ease of making reservation, dietary menu options): 5/10

The atmosphere is really cute and decorated but generally not over cluttered. The Alice in Wonderland theme was present in the decor but wasn't over the top, it blended well with the rest of the what I assumed was the more permanent decor. The Tea Room is in a converted old house and has garden or indoor options for seating. The place settings are eclectic like many tea rooms with matching cup and saucers but each person had a different one and different patterned small plates. The staff were all lovely and complementary, they were quite attentive to refilling our hot water and such.

Atmosphere (décor, place settings, staff): 8/10

The price of tea is $65. I left full but not overly stuffed. I think it was a good amount of food and we'll balanced with savories and sweets.

Price (value for money): 8/10

The tea menu had a good variety but wasn't too overwhelming. I ended up getting the Lady Grey and sampling the rose black tea. It was fine? Tasty tea but I kind of wished they had a few more flavored black tea options. They did also have a menu of themed cocktails and mocktails for an add on price! I got the Alice Drink Me one with was good and all of the drinks had this edible swirly glitter in that was kind of hard to get a pic of!

Tea: 6.5/10

The scones were quite large! They came with a cute little pot of jam and clotted 'cream' that had more of the consistency of whipped cream. For how large the scones were and there being 3 people for that one pot of jam it wasn't quite enough.

Scones (and/or crumpets): 6/10

The savories were all really tasty and had a lot of different flavor profiles! I was really impressed especially considering everything was vegan, I was a bit worried that everything wouldn't be super satisfying but it was! The only thing I didn't like was the little pastry cup in the middle that was mushroom flavor.

Savories: 9/10

The sweets were also good! There was a cupcake, jammy dodger, a peppermint patty type chocolate and some fruit. The cupcake was especially nice very moist and good ratio of frosting/cake. I didn't like the cookie as much as it had kind of a odd chewy texture though the flavor was good.

Sweets: 8/10

Total average rating: 7.2/10

Overall this is a delicious tea place with a good amount of space so you could have a larger meet here. The fact that it's automatically vegan is a bonus for many dietary restrictions and the themes change around monthly so it will usually have something a bit unique each time you visit. The main downside is that its relatively inaccessible for those who don't have cars as it's quite far away from the immediate bay area.

I wore UnBirthday for the Alice in Wonderland theme!