What is Tea and Cake? I looked up Tea and cake expecting to find huge swathes of description on how this should be done, but, all I found was Afternoon Tea. My last Blog touched on High Teas and I won’t dwell on that, but it was interesting the response we had. My take on […]

Chai Delicatessen Mumbles Have you thought of a High Tea or a Home Made Cake for that someone special? Our High teas are very popular in Chai Delicatessen and Tea Room, our base in Mumbles, Swansea. More and more customers during this lockdown period are ordering via the shop’s email address [email protected]. They miss them […]

As we say in our profile, we’re a small family run business in Wales. We appreciate many people won’t even know why we’re called Gower, so here’s why. The business Gower Tea is based in a small village in Wales on the Gower Peninsula, Wales’ first area of outstanding natural beauty. The village is called […]

I was never really interested in Tea,I never drank it as a child and turned my nose up when offered at my Grand Parents. They had the ubiquitous Tetleys, PG, Typhoo to name but a few. They never ever used a tea strainer which is another reason I believe my youth was deprived of that […]

Happy New Year to you all, and as the title suggests, the Blues. No not those Blues, but the Blues, post Christmas, Credit Card blues. Although I’m a great lover of Jazz myself, today we’re talking about the latter. It’s that time of year when a lot of people consider changing lifestyle, moving home, jobs, […]

Here we are the last weekend in this very very Autumnal month October. The clocks go back tomorrow and it’s the weekend of the semi finals of the RWC, Rugby World cup in Japan. What worries me as an avid rugby fan is this. Do Japan change the clocks the same time as us and […]

I bet I already have your attention specially if you’re British, the British Weather has a life of it’s own I swear to God. We can have all the seasons in one day, maybe that’s why we’re so adaptable. We hate whatever weather we have, too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet. we Brits […]

Alarm sounds at 5.30 a.m., looking out of the window, where on a good day we can make out the coast of Devon from Mumbles. We looked out trying to see the bottom of our garden. Not a good start but up and at em on this heavy drizzly day. No time for breakfast for […]

A short descriptive on Tea Sommeliers and their place in the World of enjoying Tea. Where to Start I found it interesting when we started this venture on how diverse teas can be. But then we started to read Tea Books and seek advice from the writings of Tea Sommeliers. But what makes someone an […]

Enjoying you Tea, where to start? Tea has been around for centuries and the art of enjoying tea can be taken to extremes, and is an art in itself. A formal tea ceremony was first mentioned in the eighth century and probably didn’t resemble the Japanese tea ceremony we know of today. During the eighth […]