The Tea Bar

Head down to London Road and you'll find The Tea Bar doing something refreshingly straightforward – serving actual good tea. Not the sad teabag stuff, but proper loose leaf varieties that people genuinely want to sit with for an hour. The vibe is relaxed and unpretentious; you're as likely to spot locals working on laptops as you are groups catching up over pots of oolong or English breakfast blends. It's the kind of place where staff know what they're talking about when it comes to brewing temperatures and origins, without being annoying about it. With a solid 4.2-star rating across nearly 400 reviews, folks clearly rate what's happening here – whether that's the tea selection itself or the whole low-key atmosphere that makes you want to linger.