Martha's Pantry

Wellington


Time for tea? This quaint little tea room offers club sandwiches, cakes, freshly baked scones with raspberry jam and cream, and tea in fine bone china. With flower pots and broad-rimmed sun hats strewn about, it's charmingly old-fashioned.


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