I love the concept of this place and the creativity of the offerings. My wife and I were well impressed by our meals. However, the place could use some updating from the decor to the dish-ware. While we can certainly appreciate that it is a historic building that comes with its own hurdles, the furnishings were dated, the glass tabletop clearly hadn’t been cleaned between tables, and the tea pot and tea cups were chipped and past their prime. There is clearly passion and creativity in the food with a unique menu that is sure to offer you something new, unlike so many places with the same offerings as everywhere else, and we would love to support this business but the cleanliness and dinginess rule it out as a go-to place for us.
A MB
I truly cannot believe how filthy this establishment is. This was my first time there and i had been looking forward to it. I will not be returning. The floors & walls were filthy! Our tablecloth had numerous old stains on it and the teapot warmer I don't think had ever been washed. Crumbs all along the windowsill & just overall needs to be deep cleaned x 100! I am shocked they can remain open to the public.
Bonnie
We came here for afternoon tea and both the waiter and the chef were extremely nice. When I ordered my raspberry truffle tea, the waiter recommended mixing in vanilla decaf (it was delicious!). It was so much food, we had to take the desserts and tea to go. Would absolutely come back again!
Nicole Elizabeth
Adorable little hidden gem. Many tea options. The bread pudding and scones are scrumptious! Cannot wait to try lunch or breakfast there. Friendly staff and great service!
Liz Mullican
We had afternoon tea today! We truly enjoyed the experience. All the teas were so good and the food was wonderful. We totally recommend Tailored Tea!
Marilyn Huber
Great food; the chef and waiter, Jared and Derek, are friendly and charming; and interesting old house with a local story.
Cindy Barkowski
Love, love Tailored Tea. Food is reasonable, always delicious and love the gf options. Jared is the best and our waiter was very friendly 🥰
Jay S
As always whenever we are in Albany we come here. The food and tea choices are fantastic.
Theresa St. John
I loved this little place - felt like it was a hidden treasure. We were able to sit where we liked - a tea cup and saucer called to me, it was beautiful. I found out I could buy it and so I did, and brought it home. Nice memory. The owner was very friendly and the food was very nice. I went with a friend and we both enjoyed the atmosphere - you can eat outside in nicer weather. Set in an old house, would go back again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Scones, Tea Sandwiches, Beet Salad, Bangers and Mashed Potatoes, Various Dessert, Calming Chamomile
Donna Nystoriak
Atmosphere quaint! Waiter excellent as was the tea and food.
If you want quality tea and BANGIN scones in a place that feels like your grandma's house, go here. We loved it.
Beatrice Taylor
A wonderful little place for tea or a meal. Food delicious. I highly recommend this place
Lorraine Graham Steele
100% Recommend for a small get together. Had my daughter’s baby sprinkle/shower there and I was so impressed with the service and food, the teas are so good! Scones were delicious. They are very accommodating and friendly! The atmosphere is wonderful!
Kay K
02/22/2025 - My sisters and my mom and I went to The Tailored Tea for the first time yesterday- a Saturday. We made a reservation without a problem. We were immediately greeted by a server who was very pleasant. We ordered three of the Hudsons, which are basically an assortment of tea sandwiches, a pot of tea, and an assortment of desserts. We came here after looking at their website and decided it looked like something we would all enjoy. There is so much potential at this place, but the entire experience is poorly executed.
We sat at our table which had been poorly wiped (or not all?). The table was sticky in spots, the teacups and teapots and their warmers were really very dirty. We had sat at a table for six, and so switched out our dirty teacups for the cleanest we could find at the table. The whole place was dusty and dirty though. This is a tea room! It should be especially prim and proper - which means CLEAN. Menus are printed on nothing more than 8x10 copy paper - stained with food and tea from previous customers. (Maybe think about sliding that paper into a sheet protector so you can wipe them down between customers?)
Our tea sandwiches came and they were nothing special. The bread was dried on the outside as though these had been made the day before. Most of the sandwiches were made on white bread, not the pumpernickel, banana, or multi-grain breads that the menu said they came on. “Egg salad and olives on banana bread”: came as egg salad (egg & mayo only) on WHITE bread; no olives. “Smoked salmon & cream cheese with scallions on pumpernickel”: Came as smoked salmon and cream cheese on a light wheat bread- no scallions, no pumpernickel. “Roast beef with basil mayo on farmer’s bread”: came as roast beef (tough) on white bread and maybe some plain mayo. “Turkey with cranberry mayo on multi grain”: came as turkey with plain mayo on white bread.
I have seen that they make some really lucious scones, but the only ones available were chocolate chip, carrot ginger, and plain - which all would have been my last choices of all the ones I know they make. The carrot ginger scone had shredded carrots in it…but we couldn’t detect much of any ginger. The “clotted cream” that came with the scones was more like tasteless whipped cream.
We wanted apple cinnamon spice tea from the menu, but the server said they didn’t have any. Also, before ordering the tea sandwiches, we had thought we’d order soup - but the server said they had no soup. After our food had arrived- we were informed that there was now chicken noodle soup if we wanted it. Ugh.
The dessert assortment included two tarts one blueberry (think blueberry pie filling from a can) and what seemed to be a pear tart, and then a bunch of different heavy breads - heavy like Christmas fruitcake, all with a coarse texture, lots of clove and nutmeg spices, and really not at all satisfying as a dessert. We all loved the pie crust that was used for the tarts though.
Next time I try this place - and I will give them another try, just in case this was a bad day for them - I will order a hot dish from the breakfast or brunch menu and skip the dessert. Oh - and I will go in the spring when their parking lot is not a sheet of ice (the weather is not their fault), but if I was going to open when my lot was shiny, slippery ice, I’d sand the heck out of it.
Disappointing visit. I wanted this to be a neato place to go for a warm cup of tea and a nice sandwich in a pleasant (clean) atmosphere. I hope the owner sees this - one of several reviews that mentions the lack of cleanliness of the dish-ware, floors, furniture, etc. - and hires a cleaning crew to clean it up.
Paula G
Oh so sweet and lunch menu amazing. Food delicious....just surprised we were told we needed to leave (1 1/2 hr)...several empty tables and no one waiting. Never heard of a time limit on reservation before. Oh, and 'thank you' would have been appreciated for 25% tip!
I love the concept of this place and the creativity of the offerings. My wife and I were well impressed by our meals. However, the place could use some updating from the decor to the dish-ware. While we can certainly appreciate that it is a historic building that comes with its own hurdles, the furnishings were dated, the glass tabletop clearly hadn’t been cleaned between tables, and the tea pot and tea cups were chipped and past their prime. There is clearly passion and creativity in the food with a unique menu that is sure to offer you something new, unlike so many places with the same offerings as everywhere else, and we would love to support this business but the cleanliness and dinginess rule it out as a go-to place for us.
I truly cannot believe how filthy this establishment is. This was my first time there and i had been looking forward to it. I will not be returning.
The floors & walls were filthy! Our tablecloth had numerous old stains on it and the teapot warmer I don't think had ever been washed. Crumbs all along the windowsill & just overall needs to be deep cleaned x 100! I am shocked they can remain open to the public.
We came here for afternoon tea and both the waiter and the chef were extremely nice. When I ordered my raspberry truffle tea, the waiter recommended mixing in vanilla decaf (it was delicious!). It was so much food, we had to take the desserts and tea to go. Would absolutely come back again!
Adorable little hidden gem. Many tea options. The bread pudding and scones are scrumptious! Cannot wait to try lunch or breakfast there. Friendly staff and great service!
We had afternoon tea today! We truly enjoyed the experience. All the teas were so good and the food was wonderful. We totally recommend Tailored Tea!
Great food; the chef and waiter, Jared and Derek, are friendly and charming; and interesting old house with a local story.
Love, love Tailored Tea. Food is reasonable, always delicious and love the gf options. Jared is the best and our waiter was very friendly 🥰
As always whenever we are in Albany we come here. The food and tea choices are fantastic.
I loved this little place - felt like it was a hidden treasure. We were able to sit where we liked - a tea cup and saucer called to me, it was beautiful. I found out I could buy it and so I did, and brought it home. Nice memory. The owner was very friendly and the food was very nice. I went with a friend and we both enjoyed the atmosphere - you can eat outside in nicer weather. Set in an old house, would go back again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Scones, Tea Sandwiches, Beet Salad, Bangers and Mashed Potatoes, Various Dessert, Calming Chamomile
Atmosphere quaint! Waiter excellent as was the tea and food.
Restaurantji Recommends
If you want quality tea and BANGIN scones in a place that feels like your grandma's house, go here. We loved it.
A wonderful little place for tea or a meal. Food delicious. I highly recommend this place
100% Recommend for a small get together. Had my daughter’s baby sprinkle/shower there and I was so impressed with the service and food, the teas are so good! Scones were delicious. They are very accommodating and friendly! The atmosphere is wonderful!
02/22/2025 - My sisters and my mom and I went to The Tailored Tea for the first time yesterday- a Saturday. We made a reservation without a problem. We were immediately greeted by a server who was very pleasant. We ordered three of the Hudsons, which are basically an assortment of tea sandwiches, a pot of tea, and an assortment of desserts. We came here after looking at their website and decided it looked like something we would all enjoy. There is so much potential at this place, but the entire experience is poorly executed.
We sat at our table which had been poorly wiped (or not all?). The table was sticky in spots, the teacups and teapots and their warmers were really very dirty. We had sat at a table for six, and so switched out our dirty teacups for the cleanest we could find at the table. The whole place was dusty and dirty though. This is a tea room! It should be especially prim and proper - which means CLEAN. Menus are printed on nothing more than 8x10 copy paper - stained with food and tea from previous customers. (Maybe think about sliding that paper into a sheet protector so you can wipe them down between customers?)
Our tea sandwiches came and they were nothing special. The bread was dried on the outside as though these had been made the day before. Most of the sandwiches were made on white bread, not the pumpernickel, banana, or multi-grain breads that the menu said they came on.
“Egg salad and olives on banana bread”: came as egg salad (egg & mayo only) on WHITE bread; no olives.
“Smoked salmon & cream cheese with scallions on pumpernickel”: Came as smoked salmon and cream cheese on a light wheat bread- no scallions, no pumpernickel.
“Roast beef with basil mayo on farmer’s bread”: came as roast beef (tough) on white bread and maybe some plain mayo.
“Turkey with cranberry mayo on multi grain”: came as turkey with plain mayo on white bread.
I have seen that they make some really lucious scones, but the only ones available were chocolate chip, carrot ginger, and plain - which all would have been my last choices of all the ones I know they make. The carrot ginger scone had shredded carrots in it…but we couldn’t detect much of any ginger. The “clotted cream” that came with the scones was more like tasteless whipped cream.
We wanted apple cinnamon spice tea from the menu, but the server said they didn’t have any. Also, before ordering the tea sandwiches, we had thought we’d order soup - but the server said they had no soup. After our food had arrived- we were informed that there was now chicken noodle soup if we wanted it. Ugh.
The dessert assortment included two tarts one blueberry (think blueberry pie filling from a can) and what seemed to be a pear tart, and then a bunch of different heavy breads - heavy like Christmas fruitcake, all with a coarse texture, lots of clove and nutmeg spices, and really not at all satisfying as a dessert. We all loved the pie crust that was used for the tarts though.
Next time I try this place - and I will give them another try, just in case this was a bad day for them - I will order a hot dish from the breakfast or brunch menu and skip the dessert. Oh - and I will go in the spring when their parking lot is not a sheet of ice (the weather is not their fault), but if I was going to open when my lot was shiny, slippery ice, I’d sand the heck out of it.
Disappointing visit. I wanted this to be a neato place to go for a warm cup of tea and a nice sandwich in a pleasant (clean) atmosphere. I hope the owner sees this - one of several reviews that mentions the lack of cleanliness of the dish-ware, floors, furniture, etc. - and hires a cleaning crew to clean it up.
Oh so sweet and lunch menu amazing. Food delicious....just surprised we were told we needed to leave (1 1/2 hr)...several empty tables and no one waiting. Never heard of a time limit on reservation before. Oh, and 'thank you' would have been appreciated for 25% tip!
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