Idaho Tea Rooms

Tea Cup Cafe and Bakery, interior, online photo, circa 2016. While not a "tea room" per se, i chose this image to represent the state of Idaho for two reasons: (1) My years of searching have turned up no vintage postcards of Idaho tea rooms at all, and i think that the national tea room movement may have passed this state by. (2) This is one of the few establishments in Idaho that serves tea and pastries, and it is also one of the few contemporary small eating places in the West that does not feature a trash can or waste receptacle in the room view. (I am so disgusted by modern so-called "tea room" photos that showcase bright blue plastic or even matte-finish black metal trash collection stations in the dining room. What is wrong with these people? Next they will place toilet commodes with in the tea room!) Anyway, this is the best tea room i could find in Idaho, and it looks charming, so i shall honour it here.