I visit York about once every two months because I have an older brother who works there. I won’t complain about a sibling moving away when its to such a beautiful city like York, it’s a dreamy mashup of cobble stone streets, abbey ruins and affordable pints! One thing I always appreciate about it though is it’s countless amount of tea rooms. What could be better!?
One spot that I absolutely recommend in York is The Vanilla Cafe, located right next to York Minster on College Street. It’s a smaller tea room of York, with only room for a few people inside and some extra vintage style metal work seating outside. Its a truly a little gem of a vintage style British cafe, with bunting and paisley crockery galore. We went for some classic breakfast teas and cake, in a truly english fashion of course. I would rate both the tea and cake 10/10! I have no idea what brand of tea they used, but I tend to find that I prefer it that way, as long as it doesn’t taste like i’m drinking pond water, tea is tea no matter what label is on the box! I chose to be a bit vanilla (which was fitting considering we were sitting outside The Vanilla cafe) and had a big ol’ slice of Victoria sponge!
The location is truly idyllic, we sat opposite the outside of York Minster along a cobbled stone street sipping tea on a lovely spring day. As we sipped our warm drinks and noshed on our yummy cakes the Minster bells rang and because it was a weekday the streets were quite empty, it was extremely peaceful and probably one of my favourite memories I have of York recently.
Check out the cafe here
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