Cauley Square Historic Village, Florida, United States

4Loretta A 5:00 PM Nov 21, 2014

Great Food, nice ambiance and very affordable!
I’ve been to the Tea Room a lot since it recently reopened with a new owner and I really like it! It is owned by the same person who owns Kris’s Restaurant in Palmetto Bay. I live nearby, so we usually go there several times a week. Everyone who works there is very nice and attentive. It seems like it’s changed a lot for the better with the new owner and management. My husband and I enjoy dining at the Tea Room, and so have guests that I have brought at various times. The food is made with fresh ingredients, from scratch and prepared in a flavorful and sometimes unexpected way. The sandwich I like best is prepared on a fresh baked baguette with fresh roasted vegetables, goat cheese and a pesto sauce. I’m a vegetarian and I wish they had more vegetarian entrees, since I don’t really eat things like quiches, but at least the chef has been kind enough to modify some of their menu items like the cheese quesadillas to include all sorts of roasted vegetables to my liking. I really love the soups too. There’s a good assortment of vegetarian soups, as well as meat based ones. My daughter in law especially liked the tea sandwiches platter that came with fresh ambrosia and banana bread. My son, who lives by the Gables said he wished they had a place like this near him, because he said you couldn’t find a really good place to go up there that had really good sandwiches to eat for lunch. As I said, the food is really good, but the décor is enchanting. If you go, you really need to check out all of the distinct rooms, decorated in vintage style, with different themes and memorabilia. You’ll see lots of different china patterns, lace, vintage cross stitched pictures, as well as other historic pictures and pieces like vintage eye glass collections, butterfly collections, pipe collections, a little bit of everything. Cauley Square is a historic place and the Tea Room is a perfect part of it. If you like freshly prepared GOOD food with fresh in season ingredients, that's very affordable too, it’s definitely worth a drive to try it out!

3MrMiamiExplorer 5:00 PM Sep 17, 2014

Cute little village
We finally visited Cauley Square while passing by on the way to the Keys. Firstly, parking is free. Walking down the quiet shaded streets is like stepping back in time to the old old pioneer days. The little pioneer type cottages and gift shops were cute and kinda reminded me of key west gift shops. I don't know how they stay in business though with so few visitors? The gardens were beautiful. It was very nice to see that they have left so much of the natural foliage intact for so many centuries. That being said, I wouldn't recommend making a separate trip just to visit this location. Everything can be seen in under an hour, unless you go to the restaurant, which I've heard is pricey. They recently added a parrot pet store, which kind of ruins the affect of an old pioneer town. When was the last time you saw a movie taking place in the early 1900s with pet stores of exotic parrots? I've heard some folks complain about the frequent presence of raccoons wandering about Cauley Square, but this land was their home first, and at least a lot of the forest on this property still remains.