Little Shabby Chic

This is a lovely little tea room tucked away on a back street in Issegiac. It’s so quaint and quirky all themed around Alice in Wonderland. If in the village worth a visit, great selection of tea and cakes.

What a wonderful experience! As a vegetarian, food in France has been somewhat disappointing, this little artisital restaurant come tea room is totally fabulous, all the food and cakes are homemade, the drinks and beers are smaller breweries and the juices are gorgeous. We spent a wonderful, slow afternoon enjoying the meal and a beautiful location.

Best cheesecake I've ever had! Hot drinks come in lovely little tea cups!

With all the promise of a charming hidden tea room we bundled inside for a hot drink and some patisserie. The waitress took three attempts to take our order (shabby but not chic) and still managed to get it wrong! We ordered one hot chocolate, and when enough for two arrived the polite young woman who’d made the hot chocolate was berated in front of us for being “too generous”. Unfortunately there was no respite from the December cold outside, the coffee was lukewarm and the hot chocolate was kept not-quite-stone-cold by the skin of milk on top. The decor wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste. A Lacy doily Pritt-sticked to a piece of card is certainly a statement of… something? The blue biro used to cross out the items on the menu they no longer served added to the DIY vibe. Once we had eventually had the opportunity to make our orders, the coffee arrived cold. The hot chocolate was also cold and bitter and when poured out of the teapot it was served in the milk skin slurped out too with a mildly sickening splash. One of the scones was stale, the brownkies (brownie topped with cookie) were half stale but the lemon cake was actually quite nice (and a generous slice too). After paying an excessive amount for what can be described at as best “bless them they tried”, we crawled back out of the tiny door that would make Bilbo Baggins duck in fear.

What an incredibly lovely place. Aside the the interior (which I thought would be gimiccky), it serves very very good food and drink - our coffees were excellent and the banana bread we had was very sumptuous! The service was warm, welcoming and couldn't have been better. A very high 5 stars!

Most inefficient service. Completely disorganised and terrible waiting time - or worse, they even totally forget about you. Table management and staff coordination really needs improvement, it's a pity. Savoury food is quite average.

A charming little tea room hidden away in one of the many quaint alleyways in Issigeac. 'English' style cream tea with freshly baked warm scones and jam, but sadly France does not go on for clotted cream which is replaced by 'creme fraiche'. Tea freshly brewed from leaves. A lovely experience.

Superb food, excellent service.