The Purple Door Tea Room: Delightful Afternoon Tea in Ferndale

The Purple Door Tea Room in Ferndale, offers a variety of tea fare menu options

 

Beyond the eponymous brightly hued entrance, The Purple Door Tea Room offers a splendid afternoon tea in a room filled with pastel colors, fresh and silk flowers and pretty tea accoutrements. We visited this charming Ferndale tearoom this week with family and thoroughly enjoyed our tea time experience.

Family outing for afternoon tea at The Purple Door Tea Room

The Purple Door Tea Room offers a variety of tea fare menu options, ranging from the "Tulip Tea" with two tea sandwiches and soup for $15.00 to the traditional "Afternoon Tea" which includes soup, salad, tea sandwiches and two desserts for $35.00. They offer gluten-free and dairy-free options as well.

All of the tea fare comes with a choice of tea, offered tableside in a tea caddy.  Tea bags are used, but every guest gets their own teapot with a tea bag holder. Once you're happy with the steep time, you can remove the bag and set it neatly aside.

Tablescapes are decorated with fresh and silk flowers and pretty tea accoutrements

Three at our table ordered the "Magnolia Tea", which is just a slightly abbreviated "Afternoon Tea", having soup or salad as on option and one less dessert. (If you order the salad, you are treated to a chilled salad fork.) The tea savories included an English cucumber sandwich, a turkey and smoked cheddar on sourdough, chicken salad on an apple slice and a roasted red pepper bruschetta flatbread, all tasty and beautifully presented.

Savories are scrumptious and beautifully presented

Our dessert was a cinnamon/sugar "tea cake", which co-owner, Matthew Dixon, explained was like a coffee cake, but with a name more appropriate for the venue.  😉

Cinnamon/sugar "tea cake" for dessert

Matthew also filled us in on a brief history of The Purple Door Tea Room. It's been in the family for several years, starting as part of an art gallery in downtown Detroit. The tearoom moved to its current Ferndale location eight years ago.

The Purple Door Tea Room is open Tuesday thru Sunday from 11:00 to 5:00. Advanced reservations are required. For more information, visit their Facebook page:  The Purple Door Tea Room.