The Rose Garden Tea Room is a beautiful way to stop, relax and enjoy high tea service while exploring the grounds. The renovation is beautiful, and the space white bright and welcoming. Highlights of the tea service: the curried carrot sandwich, the tarragon chicken salad sandwich and the egg salad. Overall we thoroughly enjoyed our experience. My one note is there should be an adults room or a family room. When spending $75/person for high-end tea service the last thing you want is a table with crying babies and screaming kids. It dampened what would have been a fantastic experience.

The tea room by the Rose garden at Huntington is a beautifully restored historic building that opened up earlier this year serving afternoon tea. Reservations were packed a few months ago but it seems to have settled down some. The traditional tea is pretty steep (get it?) in price per person but includes the standard tiers of sandwiches, scones, and your own teapot. If you choose the Huntington tea you pay more for the same experience plus a little lobster salad bite (very tasty!), a bonbon with pop rocks, and a glass of champagne. The ambiance is lovely and the staff is attentive/helpful. Tea selection is high quality, with unique flavors from floral and fruity to spiced. Most of the sandwiches were quite good (flavorful and moist) as well as the scones (buttery and soft). The dessert tier was terrible. They all tasted the same, just straight sugar. Probably comes from the same vendor that sells desserts in other locations at the Huntington, which I’m not a fan of. Overall it was a nice experience, if overpriced.

The rose garden tea room is so cute! Great place to get tea service for afternoon high tea. They have a set menu that includes scones, finger sandwiches, and petit four desserts. I highly recommend getting a reservation as they are always very busy and can’t always accommodate walk ins. They have options for vegetarians. This is a great place for a date or to take a mom, grandmother or little girl. Realize that this is located INSIDE the garden area at the Huntington library, which requires a fee unless you are a member. Make a day or afternoon of it to make the entrance fee worth it, which it is. The gardens are beautiful and there are a few art exhibits as well.

Tea at the Huntington Library. So disappointing. Basic tea set, basic food served on basic plates. Note the doilies are missing from the carriers. Can all be yours for a hefty tag of $91 per guest. Plus $25 entrance and you have to hike to get to the location. And reservations booked several months out. Just 😖 awful.

Finally got a reservation and went to the tearoom for the first time after its renovation! Great new interior design and outdoor sitting, wonderful environment. Servers were friendly, but there is definitely room for improvement on service speed and accuracy. Food, I have to say, was ok, not impressive. Savory sandwiches and scones were much better than the small desserts. Roses are still in bloom, so the views are unbeatable.

Great service and ambience, low quality food Pros: amazing service (Angelina was wonderful), unbeatable ambiance, and amazing tea Cons: food is all middling. Wouldn’t do it again because it’s overpriced. You’ll see other reviewers saying the same. Our waitress Angelina was a delight! Always quick to meet any of our needs. We loved the Huntington blend tea, very close to an Earl Grey. It’s such a beautifully decorated space, and you can’t beat the view of the rose garden from your chair. Sadly, the food was just meh. Nothing was amazing, even on the Huntington tea selection. I’d say the best was the curried carrot sandwich, scones and accoutrements, and ginger cake that was barely one bite. I will say, the tea itself was the best part. Delicious! At the end of the day, it was a fun experience, just not at all worth the price based simply on the low food quality. I hope Huntington reads all these reviews and steps it up! I’d love to see them so well.

Great English tea time with lovely acorns and small sandwiches and sweets. This is definitely a good place to go after church. Our church, Vintage Pasadena at Hamilton Element School is only about 4 minutes from this place. We decided to pay a visit to the library and have afternoon tea at the tea room. There are two tea set options, one with only the sandwiches and pastries for $35 and the other with caveat and champagne for $60. We chose the cheaper option. But we were so full after the devouring the teaser tower. My favorite were the Brie cheese cracker and the smoke salmons sandwiches. My wife loves their acorns. In fact she looks forward to the scorns very time we go to this tea house. This tea room also offers varieties of teas from all time favorite English teas to ORIENTAL green tea with fruits. I chose the Jasmine Blueberry tea. This tea is absolutely fabulous and smell so good with jasmine fragrance. This place is very hectic on weekends. Even though we had a reservation, we still have to wait for half and hour. So go early with your reservation to secure your seats. It's lovely roam around the library afterward to enjoy the beauty of the flowers and the different theme gardens

Very delicious assortment of dishes. The tarragon chicken was the first and yet best dish of them all. The cucumber sandwich was the second best of savory dishes. The tart cream was so tasty on the scones. I could eat the whole basket of scones. It was so good by itself and in my jasmine blueberry tea. The waiter sniffed the teas since he had no idea which tea was which, and that grossed out my mother, hence the docked star. He also at first gave me the Aztec spice, which was good at first, but I didn't order that. The pumpkin triangle was the best dessert of all. Ate all the micro greens in sight. ❤️ the cute small flowers garnished like sprinkles on the trays. 75 for the proseco, lobster, and chocolate extra. 65 for the reg tea menu. Don't wait 3 minutes like the waiter suggests for your tea if you don't want it to get bitter or take the tea bag out of the kettle after 3 minutes. All gender restroom with fully separate and closed toilet stalls.

Walk-in is possible for small parties (2), but you'll get a tiny table. You have to buy one set per person. We had planned to buy one $78 tea set to share, but our server said that's not allowed. So we bought two $65 sets, which was expensive. Was the food worth it? Almost. The $65 set comes with your own selected tea, sugar lumps, 2 giant warm scones with clotted cream, butter, or lemon curd. We chose the savory set instead of the sweet set, so ours came with little sandwich bites. Thin floppy sandwiches with rich fillings/toppings. Cucumber, chicken salad, kurobota pork, smoked salmon with caviar. Tiny but delicious. Various nutty, fruity or creamy desserts. The standout was a crispy pastry cup filled with deviled egg. The tea room setting was lovely. Our server was fine, but he acted kinda strange. He spoke too softly at times and made awkward conversation.

Excellent service! Delightful finger sandwiches and desserts, served with specialty tea at the newly renovated tea room surrounded by wonderful rose fragrance!!

The Rose tea room will be open for reservations 24 may 2023. The rebuilt space has more space. There is the original Rose room, the new Herb room facing the herb garden the east terrace and outside the herb room. The new entry and waiting area have orange crate labels and tea pots on display. The food and tea are excellent, if you like English tea.

The food was fantastic and the gardens are beautiful! Vegan menu upon request and the venue is simple & gorgeous. The service left much to be desired from start to finish and not in line with the cost of their tea service. Was glad to try it once but won’t be back even as a Huntington Member.

Serene and one of the Crown Jewels of the Southern California region. It’s a bit expensive but you won’t be disappointed. Excellent attention and pivot during the current epidemic.

Such a lovely place! I went here on a field trip with my psychology club. There's so many beautiful things to admire. It's definitely a place you could spend all day!!!! If you have had a bad a week then come here to leave feeling better, feeling peaceful, and tranquil.

I enjoyed the Rose Garden Tea Room.... By far my favorite so far. Very Delicious items and Yummy selection of Teas. On the down side I was not aware in order to get into the Rose Garden Tea Room your expected to pay entrance fee as well to get inside, therefore you minus well utilized that time to take a walk around the garden after tea time. It's a beautiful peaceful walk.

This was a great experience with delicious tea and food. My aunt and I visited for tea and had a great time! We especially liked the Huntington rose tea!

The service and ambiance were 5 stars but a few items were not worth the price point. Plus the milk/cream wasn’t brought out with or before the tea, so one star removed. The gender neutral restrooms were lovely and clean, it’s how they are in Europe, floor to ceiling stalls with no gaps, lite beach restrooms. very private except the communal hand washing station. The Gen Mai Cha and Earl Grey were our favorites and the Strawberry, Saba, Whipped Black Pepper Cream Cheese sandwich. Scones were average and they gave a lot of yummy toppings and good portions but I did miss the traditional clotted cream. We all agreed the egg salad was bland… more dill? Mustard maybe ? And the best part of the upgrade was the glass of Prosecco, it’s $10 value so the 2 added bites were $3 if you look at it that way… but the lobster was disappointing, I wish they kept it a mini lobster roll just like they server for Valentine day 2023! For the price I don’t think that’s asking too much. Love that they offered to check in the stroller, I’m glad I brought my own plastic tea set for the toddler. Due to price it might be an every other year treat but would come back. Would be nice if some à la carte options if we didn’t want to do the full high tea. I only saw add on options.

I went with my husband on a member preview day before it opens up again at the end of the month. I love the changes that were made to the building and all the extra seating that was added. There was an extensive list of teas to choose from and you got the sandwiches and sweets to eat. I had the pear tea, which was great. They do not have the buffet like before. There are more sweet than savory items to eat, but they will let you substitute when you order. The price has doubled from what I remember. With an option of a traditional tea and an enhanced for a bit more. The enchanted offers a couple of extra items to eat and a sparkling wine. This is not something I will do often because of the price, but it is something fun to do on a special occasion.

My wife and I had an amazing experience! The food, service, and atmosphere/views are incredible. Kelan was an excellent server, make sure to ask for him. The only thing we didn't like was the bathroom. Sharing the space with people of the opposite gender was uncomfortable.

Be aware that the only restroom is for both men and women. (It is not a private one stall type) It was awkward to say the least to have a man in there, not to mention the fact that he left the lid of the toilet up and forgot to flush. No one would use that stall. The actual tea was delicious, but restroom overshadowed the experience.

I used to visit for high tea over many years, and the renovations were absolutely stunning. The tea service is better than ever! What a graceful and lovely way to spend an afternoon with friends. Yasmine was our delightful tea server and she helped us enjoy our experience even more with her knowledge of the property and the teas served. It's my favorite place in the Southern California area!

Well it has changed. You do not get the buffet. I liked the old way but by removing the buffet table you add more seats. The pricing is the same, you probably eat the same just the novelty to go up and get what you want is gone. You can still eat all you can eat it's just that you have to ask the help to get what you want when you run out. The tea is still amazing. Not a cheap place at $35 a head. And if you are thinking of coming here without admission to museum think again.

Went to the Tea Garden and had delightful tea service for $37. Well worth it! Tea was magnificent and the treats were delicious! Went to the gardens afterwards for a splendid time among nature.

Despite living so close to this joint it took me 3 years to finally stop in, and it is now one of my favorite bars in the city. I'm a self-proclaimed wino, and these guys serve up some delicious wine. They don't actually have a menu, instead they have some very knowledgable bartenders to whom you describe the sort of wine you're in the mood for, and they bring out some options for you. The only downside is parking, but it is LA, so that's to be expected.

Loved the time spent at the tea room recently. The staff was very attentive and kind. The atmosphere was peaceful and the food was delicious. I will definitely go back to enjoy what they offer as well as the beautiful grounds of the Huntington Library.