Afternoon tea in northeast Pennsylvania — how sweet it is

Adding the spice to Sugar's, owner Cheryl Roman

review of Sugar's Tearoom & Gift Shoppe 
Forty Fort, PA

by Joy de Vivre

I decided to 'go green' by getting rid of my car 3 years ago this week.  If I'd realized how drastically it would've limited my freedom to go to afternoon tea, frankly I may have opted to continue guzzling gas.  It had been far too long since I'd been to a tea room for the first time, when at last I got my fix by visiting Sugar's Tearoom last week.  And I couldn't have chosen a better place to end my unintentional abstinence.

Sugar's is delightful in every way, as is its staff.  Server April, shop girl Linda and owner Cheryl are all gracious and lovely, genuine and sincere. And it is clear they all love being part of the tearoom experience.  From the moment we walked into the wonderland that is the gift shop, we were greeted with warmth, color and creativity.  The merchandise is diverse and plentiful and the polka-dotted, black and fuchsia shop itself set the tone for whimsy and a wonderful, jovial time!

The tearoom is comprised of multiple adjoining rooms of a house —my favorite set-up!  Each space has been lovingly decorated with an eye to feminine fun, down to the details, including borrowable hats.  And the home in and of itself is beautiful.

In short, Sugar's does everything right!

My enthusiastic companion and I order 'the works' as I am wont to do when going to a tea room for the first time.  It included generous portions of:

• SCONES - 3 types —buttermilk, white chocolate cherry, and cinnamon — all delish, served with festive blue whipped cream and coffee flavored whip 
• SOUP - they had 2 flavors so, of course, we split both — chicken rice and tomato basil. Yum!
• SALAD - mixed greens with carrot shaving, cucumber and tomato, with our choice of dressing being the house raspberry poppy seed
• TEA SANDWICHES (5) - tuna, egg salad and chicken salads, cucumber cream cheese, and olive —all served open-faced with adorably piped colored cream cheese flowers as garnish 
• DESSERT - we opted for 2 types of cake that I can't recall as I was too darn full at the time to notice!  Suffice it to say, they were scrumptuous
• POT OF TEA - I ordered the chocolate almond tea du jour and my tablemate selected the Versailles Lavender Earl Grey

The amounts served were more than ample, and from the first course, I saw a 'to go' box in my future.  Even the burly, manly man who joined me was surprised at how full he was, to the extent that he had no room left for dessert... which dessert I cheerfully added to the crammed to go box and enjoyed with coffee for breakfast the next morning.

Whether you'd like to steal away for a simple cuppa, or plan to attend one of their frequent oh so special theme events, Sugar's is sure to satisfy more than your sweet tooth.  In fact, I've already put a second visit to the tearoom at the top of my Christmas list.

Sugar's Tearoom & Gift Shoppe site
Facebook page
Twitter

{This is #410 of different tearooms I've visited}