High Tea Day Trips from Brisbane

These 7 charming high tea venues make for a great day trip from Brisbane, to the suburbs, historic Ipswich or the bayside so why not combine a day out with high tea?:

Botanical High Tea

What better way to spoil yourself or someone you love, than with a decadent high tea in a beautiful garden setting

Enjoy an exquisite high tea in a landmark heritage-listed Ipswich cottage (circa 1861)

Partake in an old fashioned elegant High Tea on the veranda of Reids Place colonial bayside cottage or in the fountain courtyard and award-winning gardens. Bookings are essential

Mt Cotton Retreat is a beautiful bush retreat found half an hour's drive from Brisbane on the side of Mt Cotton

Devon Pixies is a quaint tea house residing in the old caretaker's cottage at Kingston Butter Factory Cultural Precinct

Part of the grand Woodlands of Marburg Estate, Tommy Smith Café serves Saturday High Tea once a month in the historic mansion’s garden

Nestled in a leafy outer western suburb of Brisbane is a chef's rambling English style estate where you can enjoy an exclusive high tea in a wrought iron rotunda in the beautifully manicured gardens

Top image: courtesy of Tommy Smith Cafe

Bottom image: courtesy of The Chef's Manor Anstead

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