Orchard Tea Garden, Grantchester

Orchard Tea Garden, Grantchester We serve tea, coffee, cake and light lunches through the year, come rain or shine, in a corner of England where time stands still.

The famous Orchard Tea Garden serves tea, coffees and light lunches and is available for weddings and parties. It is open nearly all the year around come rain or shine (see web site for opening times)

For nearly 120 years it has been rite of passage for every new undergraduate at Cambridge University to walk or cycle along the Grantchester Grind, or punt upstream exchanging the formal surroundings of the Backs, for the peace and tranquillity of the meandering River Cam to enjoy home-made scones soaked in cream and covered in jam (or vice versa) at the Orchard Tea Garden

The Orchard is renowned for the huge number of famous people who have enjoyed its genteel setting. Its luminaries including Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Alan Turing, Ernest Rutherford, and Watson and Crick to name but a few. By sitting under its trees, and sharing in the great English tradition of afternoon tea, one is following in the footsteps of generations of Cambridge students. Deliberately, the Orchard Tea Garden remains of a bygone era; a corner of England where time stands still as the outside world rushes by.

A beautiful blue sky to welcome October yesterday 💙
02/10/2026

A beautiful blue sky to welcome October yesterday 💙

It’s time to work on our new Autumn/Winter menu…Cosy, warming foods and lots of soup please! 🧡✨
27/09/2026

It’s time to work on our new Autumn/Winter menu…

Cosy, warming foods and lots of soup please! 🧡✨

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23/09/2026

🍂☕️🧡☁️

Tomorrow marks the first day of Autumn. We’re looking forward to crisp leaves and apples on the trees. 🧡
22/09/2026

Tomorrow marks the first day of Autumn. We’re looking forward to crisp leaves and apples on the trees. 🧡

14/09/2026

All the autumn feels this morning! 🍂 ☕️ ✨

Happy Sunday 🧡 we’re open from 10am.
13/09/2026

Happy Sunday 🧡 we’re open from 10am.

Happy Saturday 🌞
05/09/2026

Happy Saturday 🌞

And just like that, it’s September! We are just about ready for apples on the trees… 💚
02/09/2026

And just like that, it’s September! We are just about ready for apples on the trees… 💚

27/08/2026

Wow, rain! 🌧️ We had forgotten what a rainy day feels like… cosying up in the tearoom with tea & scones. 🤍

23/08/2026

Slow Sundays, relaxing in the sunshine 🌞

Address

The Tea Rooms, The Orchard, 47 Mill Way
Cambridge
CB39ND

Telephone

+441223840230

Website

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