My Sunday afternoon adventure to ” Heath’s Tea Room” in Rockport Ma

I headed out Sunday around noon to check out Mike O’Connell’s new place in Rockport called Heath’s Tea Room. Very rarely do I go off like that on my own unless it is for live music and almost always there is someone to connect with so I’m never really alone.

Down the road and right past the tea room I went. While looking for a place to turn around I spotted three enormous turkeys strutting around on the side walk about two blocks away from my destination. Those turkeys were huge and could care less about the cars and people around taking their pictures. There was a couple from out of town that had some pretty nice cameras doing there thing while I was there trying to get the best shot I could possibly get with my little Nokia cell phone camera. Seems like the camera should be in the car at all times now. You never know what kind of photo opportunity you will come across. All I could think about was how awesome this was and boy I wondered if they would taste good. I have seen wild turkeys that look like they were starved to death but not these.

Anyway, off to Heath’s Tea Room. When entering the establishment I was greeted by this lovely woman with a beautiful smile, soft spoken and friendly. I told her of my excitement about the turkeys and she mentioned that they had been there earlier and had to be shooed away and that they can be quite aggressive with people and cars. After that I was asked where I would like to be seated by the waitress who was just as friendly as the hostess, who happens to be Mike O’Connell’s wife Kim. I thought that Kim looked familiar because I had been introduced before when running into her and Mike a few years ago.

The Tea room is simply elegant. One would feel like they entered into the past. Bright and cozy. There is very nice trimmed wood paneling and crown molding around the room.Tin type ceiling with exposed beams.Very nice hardwood floors. Also it is decorated with vintage style antiques. Sweet little sugar bowls with fancy sugar tongs. Fancy table clothes with nice cut work. Soft music playing in the background. I was soaking it all in as I sat by the window, just in case the turkeys would reappear. Being torn between the quiche, roast turkey with stuffing and the shepherd’s pie. The quiche won out and I can always go back to try the others. I ordered the Decaf Ceylon Breakfast tea and the quiche.  It was so relaxing while sipping on the tea and the quiche was delicious.

After eating I asked for a menu to go and got a business card because I had to tell everyone about this sweet place. No wonder Mike was so excited about it. Now, when I hear him do his English accent the Tea room will come to mind even more. I told Kim who I was and that Mike had told me all about the business and she said well, we are going pay Mike a visit and away we went downstairs to the kitchen were Mike O’Connell and his father in law Brian Heath were very busy preparing food. Mike stopped his work and come over and gave me a big hug and thanked me for coming down. There were smiles all around. I have nothing but happy thoughts about going there and think that you will too!

Here is a link to Heath’s Tea Room. Enjoy, hope you get to go there and really enjoy it. Plus some photo’s of “The Three Amigo’s”,  turkeys.

http://www.heathstearoom.com/Home.php