Win High Tea for Two: Secret Garden Tea Company Moves to New Location
byFor two decades, the Secret Garden Tea Company in Kerrisdale has been offering a tranquil haven for Vancouverites to enjoy a spot of tea and delicious fresh-baked treats with friends and family.
Co-owner Kathy Wyder’s grandma was the inspiration for the tea room after lamenting there wasn’t one in Kerrisdale. So Kathy and a friend opened the tea room’s doors in October 1995. Since then, staff have poured countless cups of steaming tea in elegant china and served elegant sweets and scones, along with breakfast and lunch to anyone who simply want a break from the hectic pace of life.
Secret Garden Tea Company Moves to New Location
Growing demand for a quiet, old-fashioned afternoon tea spurred the decision to move from its current home on West Boulevard to a larger location at 2138 West 40th Avenue. It will be able to serve more of its traditional high tea to customers later this summer when it opens.
While the tea room is moving, the traditions its customers have come to love over the years will remain the same. The new room will include some updates but will retain many elements of the original one.
The larger Secret Garden will allow for milestone events and large gatherings such as bridal showers, birthdays and other celebrations in their customers’ lives.
Win High Tea for Two
To celebrate Secret Garden’s move, I have High Tea for Two to give away. The menu changes each month to offer the freshest seasonable treats.
For July, High Tea for Two includes: Secret Garden Egg Pinwheels, House Caesar Roast Beef on Mini Croissants, Smoky Caramelized Bacon on Petit Kale Muffins, Scone with Raspberry Jam and Devonshire Cream, Tea Cake Slices, Tangy Mini Lemon Curd Tart, Summery Upside Down Nectarine Cake with Salted Caramel Whip, Chocolate “Peanut Butter Cup” Tart, and of course a Pot of tea.
Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Follow The Secret Garden Tea Company on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Friday, July 15, 2016. High Tea seatings are available three times a day at 12:00pm, 2:15pm, and 4:30pm. Vegetarian options available.
Update The winner is Gina Epstein!
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I would love to enjoy a high tea which I have never done. Thanks for the great giveaway!
So fun!!!
Would love to celebrate my birthday at high tea
Would love to try this out!
Would love to see their new shop! <3
My friends took me here for my baby shower and it was beautiful! I would absolutely love to go back and take my daughter now ❤️
High tea is so much fun! Would love to have a chance to do it again.
I would love to take my sister in law, who has never been for high tea but loves to dress up and is definitely a tea lover.
I loved high tea at Secret Garden and would definitely like to check them out at their new location!
Would love to bring my best friend and enjoy a relaxing afternoon without kids!
I Would love to take my family and enjoy afternoon tea .
Would love to win
High tea is fun.
I loved your old location and can’t wait to see the new bigger location.
High tea is an amazing experience.
I would love to try high tea at their new location! Such a lovely way to spend an afternoon.
I’ll check this out for sure!
Haven’t been here before, but sounds great.
Would love to take my mom to this <3 🙂
This would be so much fun to take my DD to, she is quite the little princess and would love to go for a formal tea.
This would be so fun!
I would love to win this for my mom… she totally deserves a day to relax and just enjoy being spoiled!
love high tea!
Cheers to the new location.
Love high tea! Would be something relaxing and fun to do before the baby is born and chaos ensues! 🙂
High tea is so nice!
Wonderful prize!
High Tea at the Secret Garden is very special!
This the best place for high tea. Food and ambience is excellent.
What a LOvely afternoon it would be, indeed!
I would love to do this with my daughter ?
I would love to check this place out!
Would love to try high tea!
Want to try new place !
Being English I love a good high tea but have not had chance to try secret garden yet!
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would love to do high tea!
New location!? I’ve been wanting to go for a while!
Would like to take my wife (or sister,.. in fact they would probably prefer to go without me)
Have followed on FB, tweeted & commented on FB.
Husband would love to win as much as I do-he’s never been for high tea either and he’s all about the sweets. My favourite thing is scones and tea is a ritual in our house-we always say tea=love. If someone makes you tea, it’s a cup of love. 🙂
I would LOVE to feature your new venue and lovely afternoon tea on my blog TeaAndScandal.com.
Yes, please!
I would love to treat my 3 year old daughter!
I love afternoon tea at the Secret Garden!
I gave up coffee years ago and love tea and there’s nothing better than taking it to the next level with high tea
Savory treats are the best!
Love the Secret Garden and high tea! ❤️
I LOVE the Secret Garden, best High Tea in Vancouver. The July menu sounds amazing.
I would love to visit Secret Garden High tea 🙂 I’m a tea lover on a student budget! 😛
Love the Secret Garden for high tea. Best place in Vancouver!
I would love to try the hightea at Secret Gardne 🙂 Still have not been!
Id love to take my mom!
Love this place! Would love to win 🙂
This would be fab-u-lous!
What a great treat! Haven’t won anything for a few years!
Can’t wait to check out their new location!
I’d love to try this new location with my bestie!
Love Secret Garden. Can’t wait to check out the new location. My fav is the scones!
What a great idea ! Having high tea is good Summer activity
What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon 🙂
Would love to take my daughter for a fancy tea party! She would be so excited!!
I would love to go for some tea
I’d love to take my sister to try their new location!
I would love to win and take my mom!
I love high tea!
Sounds fantastic!
Would love to introduce my son to the tradition of high tea – enjoyed these so much when I was a kid growing up in Scotland!
I love high tea and it looks like this place does it right!
Would love to win this for my girlfriend and myself. Great way to treat ourselves without our babies!
Wow, this would be amazing! The menu looks delicious! @BinderKaur2 cheers 🙂
Would be so fun!
I love high tea!!!
I love The Secret Garden.
This would make me feel so posh!
I’d love this!
I would love to have a mother and daughter high tea date with my 11 year old daughter!
My idea of the perfect treat is high tea with my sweet husband! I adore scones with Devonshire cream & jam and my other comfort favourite is the egg salad pinwheel.
Love your high tea! Best scones ever!
Love High Tea!
Having lived in England for 16 years, I miss tea time with it’s wonderful treats.
Would love to check out their new location!!!
High Tea is always so yummy!
High tea with my mom would be lovely!
Look forward to it!!! HIGH TEA
I can’t wait to come and have high tea at your new location
I would love to spend an afternoon having high tea with my mom. She deserves a relaxing afternoon
I love high tea!!
That sounds amazing. Would love to have high tea with my hubby.
Tea at The Secret Garden would be lovely to share with my daughter…thanks for the chance to win! ?
Some of my best memories are taking my Mom to the current secret garden location. Mom will turn 93 in August and I’d love to win to take her to the new location.
I love secret garden!
I’d love to share this special moment with my daughter.
I would love to take my grandma
Great present for my Mom.
The one and only Secret Garden Tea Company! My favourite place to go for afternoon tea. I cannot wait to check out the new location!!
Would love to bring my daughter to this experience!
High tea at the Secret Garden is an annual tradition with my Mom. I’d love the opportunity to introduce a friend to it too. Thanks for the chance at an amazing giveaway!
I’ve heard great things about this place
Great tea
Would love to enjoy a High Tea
This would be amazing!!!
I would love to take my daughter here. She loves high tea!!
I want to be fancy and go to high tea!
Love Secret Garden!!
LOVE TO GO
i love high tea!
Glad to hear you will move to a bigger place.
What fun!!
High tea at Secret Garden is best served with the wife! Pick me! Thanks
Haven’t done high tea here yet!
This would be awesome!
High Tea would be such a fun treat!
Always a favourite.
glad it’s staying in the neighborhood.
Being from the Kerrisdale area, I look forward to the new larger location.
Peter
great prize
i love high tea!
I haven’t done this in years – what fun!
Messaged, liked, posted.
Your high tea is so delicious!!
Would love to treat my mama!
Love the secret garden!
My sister-in-law is flying in from Ontario and I’d love to surprise her with a proper tea at Secret Garden
I’m so glad to hear that they’ll have more space and I can’t wait to visit the new location!
Wow, would love to visit the place again at their new location! Love their high teas!!
I LOVE tea and would love a free high tea date 🙂
Had my first of many high tea expert ones here!
I haven’t had high tea for so long…. let’s have tea!
Would love to go for High Tea! Sounds divine!
This would be lovely, thanks for the chance to win!
My wife is always wanting to go to high tea with her sister would be great to win this for her!
Would love to win this for High Tea with my bestie!
Ahh!!!! I’ve heard such great things about Secret Garden. Would love to try!
pick me!! I love high tea
love love high tea =D
Tea!
this looks fun!
what a delicious giveaway!
Love the ambiance and food. Would love to come with my mom and make some memories before alzhiemers takes them all.
Entered on Facebook & Twitter – would love to win this, I’m a HUGE high tea fan, and Secret Garden is my best friend’s fav! <3
Yes please 😀 Love to take my friend to this!
This is awesome! Would love to win this :).
Yay, thanks for hosting this! Hope I can win this delicious treat ?
Sounds like a delightful time!
Would love to take my sister
This place is so good! Glad they’re expanding!
#highteadreams
I’m glad they’re expanding since it’s such a popular place. Pinkies up!
High Tea with a friend, what a wonderful afternoon that would be.
Would love to go!
Love the idea of rotating monthly menus. Using kale in one of features makes the experience feel like it includes a healthy competent and who doesn’t like that!
pure lovely! one of our most favorite high tea locations!
This would be great!
would love to win this
I would love to treat a friend to high tea!
This is my favourite place for high tea in Vancouver and I’d love to win!
I’m turning 30 this year, let’s make this win happen!!
That looks lovely!
Would love to get a chance to visit this lovely place!
This sounds great!
High tea at the Secret Garden is one of life’s quiet pleasures.
Secret Garden high tea would be a great place to take my mom who is celebrating her 87th Birhday.
A nice occasion.
This would be amazing!
Would love to try this out!
Sounds great
My wife would love this
Love high tea!
this sounds like such an incredible prize!
This would be delightful and lovely to win and a nice introduction to High Tea to my bf. Good luck to all!
I love this place!
looks delicious!
This would be a great date activity.
This would be a great date activity for my girlfriend and I
This would be so lovely! 🙂
I love high tea at The Secret Garden. The food is so good there.
My gf would love this
I’d love to take my daughters here.
Yes! I’d love to take my mom to high tea!
Bigger is better! Can’t wait to check out the new place.
Mmmmm, my mom loves high tea!
I’d love to treat my wife for high tea!
Your food sounds delicious! I’d love to come try with my mommy friends 🙂
Great prize
I’d love to win!
Always get my creamy earl grey tea from here!
I like the tea cakes!
I’ve never done high tea before. This would be awesome
love getting dressed up and going for high tea with my girls and having some down time and catch up time!
I would love to take my daughter as a pre-Kindergarten outing before school starts in the Fall.
High tea! My lady would love this.
I’d love to surprise my wife with this
I would love to experience this with my bff.
I want!
Tea makes everything better.
Would love to take my mom for her Birthday! We tried to book in for Mother’s Day but you were full 🙂
Tea please
I used to come here when I lived in the neighborhood. Would love to checkout their new location.
I love the Secret Garden Tea Company. I go there with my brother.
This would be such a great chance to high tea with a friend
Best place for high tea in Vancouver
me! me!
Thanks! Would love to win this.
Would love this!!!
My mom loves high tea! Would love to bring her here!
Would so love to win ?❤️
I have also shared on Twitter @jewelsbykat
And liked and shared in Facebook ?
Would love to take my mom who is visiting from north Carolina!
In answer of Sarah van Wermeskerken I can say: I will do it now in the restaurant of my SON in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands. He makes very nice High Teas.
Next time I visit Canada I will come.
I would love to go on a high tea date with my husband!
I love Secret Garden and cannot wait for the new location to open!
My friends recommend other tea places and every time I go to another tea house, I feel like I’m “cheating” on Secret Garden because I love it so much and always compare the food, décor and tea to Secret Garden.
Would love to win to bring my husband here so he can experience high tea and why I rave about it all the time!!
I LOVE THIS PLACE! Scones are my favourite and cannot wait to visit the new location.
Tea for two please!
Yummy!! Would love to win!
this would be amazing!
Would be a lovely way to catch up with some friends one afternoon!
Would love to try this place with friends!
Would love to win and bring my family in for high tea!
High tea is so much fun!! My girls and I would enjoy it immensely! 🙂
Would love to see the new location!!
High tea is one of my favourite things!
Thanks for sharing. This might just become our go to tea house.
High tea is my fav!!
My family would love to experience high tea with fancy china and teacups!!!
I’ve never been to high tea before. I’ll be a completely new experience for me!
Yum!
This is a delicious giveaway!
Secret Garden is one of my favourite places in the city! I’d love to win this and finally take my husband there!
Great giveaway!
This would make the perfect birthday gift!
Would love to win high tea at the Secret Garden with my mom!
Awesome!
I love a good high tea!! Just got back from England and had my fair share… Let me be the judge! ?????
I would love to go!
Love to win & take my teetotaller bud.
I love high tea! Here’s hoping!
What a beautiful place, and your menu sounds wonderful! But why do you call it “high tea,” which is a much more casual thing altogether, when it is actually a lovely and posh “afternoon tea?”
Would love to take my friend to the new location for Secret Garden. The space is beautiful and bright and a lot more spacious than before, with still the same great food and service!