A damn fine cream tea this. Tea, in a nice pot with real milk - yield, 3 cups. Scone was delivered as shown with lashings of cream on one half and oodles of strawberry jam on the other half, which meant you had to either slap the two together and scarf the lot in one big undignified gobful, or, as I did, embark upon some tricky transferring and stirring action. Scone was a nice soft texture, fruited and darn tasty. Highly recommended.

£3.90

While dawdling at the tills I noticed the brand new cafe was offering a plastic box, prefilled with all the cream tea acoutrements. Could I resist? Could I buffalo!

The plastic boxes were in the fridge and contained a scone, wrapped in cling-film. A pat of butter, and pre-packaged pots of cream and jam. Jam varied from box to box - I chose a strawberry one.

Scone, plain and on the small side - and very over-chilled from the fridge, but basically sound. Cream was a pre-packaged pot and HUGE - more than enough for the scone, so I didn’t use the butter, tucked it in my bag for use at home. Jam - Frank Coopers - a good brand, but my plastic pot contained no actual fruit, and was a tad solid.

Tea in a pot. Milk in plastic prepacks (grrr). Yield, two cups of slightly over-strong tea.

Overall I was pretty impressed - and if the price is correct, pretty unbeatable value.

£1.29 !!!!

Note: This price may well be a mistake. The cream tea in a box should have been £1.79 plus 79p for the tea, but somehow the till turned it into £1.29 for the lot. I expressed surprise, but didn’t argue! (The girl rang everything up correctly, I watched it register - perhaps a till programming error - or maybe a special opening offer for the new cafe?)