A warm welcome in 2012 to old friends and new customers. The Jubilee celebrations are approaching fast and we will be getting into the festive mood. We will be staying open for both the Monday and Tuesday Bank Holidays, so we shall be open a full 12 days from Wednesday 30th May to Sunday 10th June. Our holiday menu will include a special Jubilee Afternoon Tea featuring treats including gooseberry fool, lavender scones, cherry scones and rose-petal jam. There will also be a 1952 menu with Pea & ham soup, Coronation chicken and Red, white and blue cheesecake, and we'll have bunting and bubbly and more to celebrate the 60 years since the Queen's accession to the throne or George's birth, depending on your priorities
For those who haven't found us yet, Peacocks offers all you would expect from a prize -winning, family-run English tearoom, and more: traditional cream teas, a homely atmosphere, delicious home-made lunches, a quirky menu, fabulous chocolate zucchini cake, welcoming staff, friendly customers, and the widest choice of teas in the world - we don't know of anyone else anywhere who can offer you teas from every continent. We are lucky enough to have a lovely garden in a beautiful setting - overlooking the River Great Ouse in the market town of Ely with its stunning Cathedral. Ely is close to Cambridge and only an hour from London by train. We are proud that the Tea Guild, in their annual awards in April 2011, again gave us an Award of Excellence, and that last year The Times newspaper named us in their top 5 places to have tea. Country Living magazine also listed us their favourite tearoom, so we have a lot to live up to. If you have never been, let's hope you have the opportunity soon. We look forward to seeing old and new friends. George and Rachel Peacock
