A Taste of Britain 35th Anniversary celebrations run throughout October, with the Main Line tea room marking the milestone through a $35 three-course prix fixe that raises money for the Wayne Senior Center rather than just promoting itself.
A Taste of Britain 35th Anniversary Traces Back to 1991
Marie Hope opened the original A Taste of Britain in Devon in 1991, and current owners Debbie and Edward Pierce took over the business in 2012. More than three decades and two ownership eras later, the tea room has outlasted plenty of Main Line businesses that opened with far more fanfare.
“What means the most to us is seeing the memories people make here every day,” Debbie said. “A Taste of Britain has become part of so many of our guests’ traditions and celebrations, and we never take for granted that they choose to share those special moments with us.”
The charity component wasn’t an afterthought. “When we realized that this anniversary was approaching, we knew we wanted to use the celebration to benefit a local non-profit in the community that we love and appreciate, and the Wayne Senior Center was an easy choice,” Edward said.
A Taste of Britain 35th Anniversary Menu Is Built for Choice
The prix fixe opens with a choice between a Spinach & Apple Salad or a warm homemade scone, available in six flavors, served with clotted cream, strawberry preserves, and lemon curd. Six scone flavors alone, from buttermilk to pumpkin, is a genuinely deep bench for a single course on a prix fixe menu.
The second course runs between a croissant sandwich, an apple, cranberry butter, and brie toastie on grilled sourdough, or the frittata of the day. Dessert lands on either an Orange Posset, the classic British custard-textured dessert, or traditional gingerbread served warm with lemon curd.
Full Afternoon Tea gets its own anniversary treatment too, rolled back from $40 to $35 Mondays through Thursdays all month, including a special 35th-anniversary tea blend brewed specifically for the occasion.
A Taste of Britain sits at 503 W. Lancaster Avenue in the Eagle Village Shops, open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with more than 50 teas on offer alongside a retail shop built for anyone with a genuine Anglophile streak. It’s the kind of longevity that’s rare for a Main Line food and drink business to reach, let alone turn into a fundraiser the moment it arrives.
Thirty-five years is long enough that a business stops belonging only to its owners and starts belonging to whoever’s been showing up the whole time. A Taste of Britain spending that milestone funding a senior center instead of just discounting scones is the clearest sign of which direction that ownership actually runs.
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