Palace Tea Room

The best scones I have ever tasted. Light and fluffy and slightly crispy on the outside. Fresh strawberry jam with fresh whipped smooth cream. These scones were perfect. Fresh club sandwiches and delightful small sweet cakes all perfectly presented on the high tea stand… One each which was bliss as I did not wish to share any of it. The large grandma pot of earl gray tea was perfectly brewed and thirst quenching. Recommend the high tea for those who have skipped lunch! Service was fast and efficient despite the large number of patrons at 3pm.

Warning — the scones are big, so if you are thinking about the Devonshire tea as a snack, you may want to think of it as a meal.
The Palace is located on level 1 of QVB, away from the hustle and bustle of the crowds on the ground level. It’s a nice place to just sit and chill, enjoy one of their many teas and have some scones or cakes.
The Devonshire tea may seem a little pricey at $ 18 but when you see and eat the scones, it all makes sense. Served with fresh cream and jam, they are still warm when my companion and I break them apart. The Devonshire comes with two, a plain and a raisin scone, and I’m ashamed to say that I went on an afternoon when I had eaten a decent sized lunch, so had to resort to taking one scone home with me.

The perfect place to relax while shopping in CBD. We had the perfect egg benedicts and omelette, perfectly fluffy.

The place is located conveniently in the heart of city, level 1 of QVB. Had a high tea there on a Saturday morning with a bunch of my girlfriends .
Have to say what shocked me was the service, I have been to quite a few high tea places and this place’s service has definitely not as fancy as it looks from the outside. We sat near the cash register so we constantly have to «shout «at each other if we want to get the message through to the person sitting opposite us just because the staff was taking care of other customers or intruding their tea range … (if u know u would do that would not you design the sitting a little bit better so minimise the interruption? Just saying)
I didn’t even bother take a picture because i didn’t feel i was getting the service that I paid for. But my girlfriend did, as it is attached. From the picture you can tell their he cakes or sandwiches are okay, and they do just taste okay.
I seriously cannot remember one thing I had from there was tasty or amazing.
The tea was served in this massive pot which is good and convenient so you don’t have to ask every 1 minute unlike other high tea places.
Overall I didn’t like the experience as I had higher expectation for a high tea place as their name suggested. But would be still ok to chill if you are tired from all the shopping :)
I would recommend go in and ask for a quieter spot so u can enjoy urself like you are having a high tea rather than feel
Like you are eating at the China town night market.(U might get better food at Chinatown tho. just saying)

A great little place in the QVB if you’re looking for tea and scones, high tea or an all day breakfast with champagne!
I found this place with my usual group of friends on a slightly hungover Sunday looking for all day breakfast in the city which was a surprisingly hard feat as it was past 2pm and most of our usual haunts finish breakfast before that time. Palace Tea Room saved us! There was bacon and eggs a plenty and they were good. Their all day breakfast menu is divine! I wish I had tried the buttermilk pancakes because they looked amazing but bacon was calling me. Whilst I admit that paying $ 4 each for a side is pricey (and I wanted hash browns and spinach as well as the bacon) it was worth it. You get a lot of food for that $ 4. I think they have me at least 5 pieces of bacon and 3 large round hash browns which were scented with herbs and cheese. Yum!
I would love to come back here and try their afternoon teas or their lunches. I give this place a 3 stars though as it’s on the pricey end of the spectrum. Not surprising due to the location but sometimes it’s worth it!

I’m a self-​confessed tea snob, but worse than that, I’m a fussy tea snob. For various reasons, I cannot drink black tea, so stick to green or white (the finest of the fine). I have mourned the demise of the T2 Tea Room and struggle to find any decent tea in the cultural backwater that is Hornsby.
One Wednesday I’d met Dave in the city to have lunch and go lingerie shopping (see the reviews on his profile for the Naked Duck and More Than A Handful). Before I went home, I wandered up to the QVB for a spot of window shopping and a trip to Haighs’ Chocolates and felt like a cup of tea to finish off before I went back to the ‘burbs.
I found the Palace Tea Room and sat on the balcony as they were still doing lunches when I got there (shortly before 2pm). While there were tables inside, I was on my own, and thought it churlish to take up a table for 4 in the main room.
Perusing the menu, I found a tea that I liked the sound of so I ordered. But I was a tad peckish (or greedy), so I ordered cake as well. Now I freely admit that $ 17 for cake and tea is on the high end of reasonable but it was delicious. The cake (a selection of 4) arrived first, on a sweet platter. Then my tea arrived in a pot with the cup and saucer matching the cake platter. I chose the Dragon Pearls which is essentially a white tea with jasmine. Just delighful, and the tea pot held enough that I had 2 ½ cups out of it. The cakes were special too. I had a lemon meringue tart that seemed to have something extra in the filling. Next was a coconut dusted lamington cake, which I think had raspberry in it too. Then a coconut macaron filled with passionfruit that just screams of pavolova (my all-​time favourite dessert). Last was a white chocolate, raspberry and basil sponge and mousse layer cake. This was unusual, and I must admit, what I tasted first. I wasn’t all that hungry after lunch at the Naked Duck, so I packed up the macaron and the lamington and took them home and shared them with the kids for afternoon tea, but the mousse cake and the lemon meringue tart were delightful with my tea.
So, would I go there again? Definitely. Would I take other people? Absolutely. For the non-​tea drinkers, they offer 3 different types of hot chocolate, and a variety of wines and coffee, juices and soft drinks.
I’ll have to try a high tea next time.

This place is all about the atmosphere. If you are a tea lover, you won’t be too impressed. Most of their teas are fruity. I was hoping for some good red or white teas, but no. And the good is quite expensive. It was good but seriously expensive for what you got. Probably won’t come here again.