The Georgian Tearoom The Dome

Great venue for afternoon tea, food was brilliant and the staff so attentive – we were served by Marcus and he couldn’t do enough to make sure our time there was just right. Would definitely recommend.

An elegant room with an ambience of the luxurious past. We had coffee followed by tea (no problem) A selection of delicious sandwiches and fabulous cakes were delivered and duly demolished. We loved it! PS Toilet facilities are best in Edinburgh!

My daughters treated me to an afternoon tea at the Dome….which we were so looking forward to…..on arriving we were shown to our seat by a pleasant young man. We were then asked what kind of scone would we like I.e. fruit or plain….which we never thought about at the time. We then got our glass of champagne which was an extra fee….NOT..champagne it was Cava…..anyway we didn’t query as we were looking forward to our afternoon tea. The cake stand looked so bare and the cakes certainly were nothing like shown on this page. I then had the sandwiches which were lovely. I then went to eat eat my scone …..but the knife couldn’t go through it as it was so hard….I then asked the waiter for another one and showed him the crumbly scone which he touched and said it was hard. He the brought another one (which took about 10 minutes to bring) we then thought they are frozen and taken out to heat before serving….that’s why we were asked what kind we wanted. They were obviously taken out by order of preference….Again same thing happened the scone crumbled as I tried to cut in half. I asked to speak to the manager who then told me they were baked that morning!!!!!no way they were brick hard. Anyway she deducted one afternoon tea of the bill, which was ok…but to be honest it wasn’t about getting a free afternoon tea it was thfact it was my birthday and my daughters were so disappointed for me. By the way they’re scones were tasteless…..so The Dome…..get decent scones that loook like scones and make your cake stand more inviting and you wouldn’t get bad feedback from customers.

Booked afternoon tea for myself and my daughter. The surroundings are wonderful and staff great but the afternoon tea itself was a disappointment. It’s not cheap at £27 each and both being vegetarian we felt quite cheated in what we received. In todays world there are lots of vegetarian alternatives and we had the usual egg mayonnaise, cheese and chutney and an odd sandwich of sliced peppers with hummus. Only 3 finger sandwiches and a small mushroom sausage roll type thing .The scone was lovely but the cakes and pastries were a real let down. When you go for afternoon tea the cakes and pastries are usually the thing that sells it and are something special. The other diners had lovely offerings of carrot cake, chocolate patisserie, macarons and cheese cake whilst we had 3 types of sponge cake which were really plain and boring!! In this day and age if you use gelatine in anything there are great vegetarian alternatives so feel that this could have easily been far better. The final point was that on booking we had to pay a £20 deposit but this wasn’t taken off the bill at the end and thankfully I checked before paying. I did feel that it lacked being something special and did pas on some feedback re the vegetarian offerings. I did receive a reply offering a 10% discount on a future booking but sadly I wouldn’t return as I feel it was overpriced for what was served. There are better afternoon teas in Edinburgh

The Georgian Tea Room at the Dome is a beautiful space within elegant surroundings. The tea is a standard 3 tier affair with a mix of sandwiches, scones and small cakes of a decent quality, but not the best we've had. There is a wide selection of interesting teas to choose from and you can add a glass of bubbly. The service was friendly and attentive, though once we'd been served it was a little hard to get someone's attention for a top up of hot water or any other requests. A very nice experience. You have to pay a deposit at the time of booking and our slot was only for two hours, but we never felt rushed.