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    Tea and bread course
    Jahmelia B.

    Floris offers 3 course fixed menu tea service. -bread course -savory course -sweet course Alongside all the tea you can drink. Iced tea, fruity tea, black tea, chai tea. You name it they serve it. The staff was very friendly, the setting is relaxing and the food was delicious! I recommend making reservations ahead of time to secure your spot! During the holiday season they offer a special tea menu. Over all I enjoyed this experience and look forward to my next visit!

    Lauren M.

    For ambience, this place gets five stars... Service, also five stars. I've had a lot of tea in my day as a girl mom and while this place sets such a beautiful table, the food leaves a little to be desired. Everything is just fine, certainly to the classic English style, but in comparison to some of Richmond's other tea offerings, you're just getting a cute lunch with a pretty table. Recommendations: take your favorite person for a cute midday getaway.

    Mom's Day Out at Floris
    Hannah S.

    My Mom's Self Care/Book Club Group had tea for the first time at Floris at VMFA a few weeks ago and to say that the experience was simply magical would be an understatement. Everything from the tea to the food to the service were simply exceptional. The decor was very soothing and inviting. Our server was attentive and knowledgeable in regards to tea and food offerings. The variety of teas, as well as, the food offerings were delicious. I sincerely enjoyed our time at Floris and cannot wait to return.

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    Alexandra A.

    We want to celebrate my dad's birthday. My mom messed up the reservation time and they nicely accommodated us despite being understaffed. I'm not the biggest fan of hot teas, but he loves it. Therefore, I don't have a strong opinion on the teas. We did al agree the chai tea was not good We got 6 teapots for 3 of us. My favorite was the english breakfast. I thought the food was pretty good and surprisingly fills you up. It did feel like a lot of bread/crust, but I guess that is how the food with tea usually is. The building is old. It's the perfect vibe for tea.

    three tiered trays of pastries
    Mary A.

    I was so excited to visit this new tea room but left very disappointed. The setting is really pretty and the food is beautiful but lacks flavor. The croissant was good but everything else appeared to focus more on appearance than taste. Many pieces were dry and not good. A nice tea selection but they only wanted two pots on each table which meant we had to share. Each pot is small and the steep time is 10 minutes so we spent a lot of time waiting and hoping for tea. The $45 price tag ends up at $61 with fees, etc and the $6 parking makes this an expensive tea.

    Egg salad sandwich!
    Hannah B.

    Floris was one of the most perplexing dining experiences I've ever participated in. The good first: the space was really lovely. The ambiance was exactly what you'd look for with an English tea service and I think is really where the museum's influence shines. The teas were also great! There was an interesting variety of teas and our party each found something enjoyable on the tea menu. The sandwich tower was beautiful. But the flavor choices for the food were somewhat clumsy--a couple of the items were really disharmonious in flavor and confusing. Some of them were excellent! The egg sandwich and miso cucumbers were particular highlights, but there was a gelatin-based caramel pudding with blackberries that just felt really directionless, and the bread on the stiry fry sandwich and lobster roll was generic and felt vaguely stale. All in all the things that worked well were very surface level: the aesthetics of Floris are great. Now on to the really very bad. The service at Floris was basically non-existent. Our reservation was at 1:30 and we managed to get out the door at 4, too late to go to the current exhibit at the museum. Our party was large, yes, but patient, until we had been waiting for our checks for thirty minutes and one of us had to get up and go track down a server--there were literally none in the dining room for us to flag down. Our table was never cleared of dishes, and at one point we had six teapots cluttering the table until one of us asked for them to be removed. Menus at the table indicated that checks couldn't be split for parties of nine or more--great, we're under that, but our server insisted they could only be split four ways and begrudgingly relented to splitting five ways after we pointed out their own menu policy, and then split the checks evenly after we clarified who should be on what check (we had checks of 2 and individual checks). We waited for another twenty minutes for ANOTHER server to return to have them fixed (which we honestly appreciated, because our server was clearly getting frustrated and short with us). With a glass of champagne and the mandatory 20% large party gratuity (which we were all aware of upfront and fine with, to be clear) I ended up paying over $80 for this experience, which was *absolutely* not worth it. In dining experiences like a high tea, the service is really what makes the experience, but Floris left us all baffled, frustrated, and, I'll be honest: hungry.

    Sad tea sandwiches
    Tara G.

    Just not good...I wish it were otherwise, but it's just not. The tea was tea, so nothing to complain about there. They had a wide selection, however they were out of a few that I wanted to try. But no big deal I guess, I ordered others. The food is another story. Nothing, and I mean nothing, was good. The sandwiches were awful. The staple of any English tea, cucumber sandwich...the cucumbers were slimy & soggy, the bread was dry & tasted like it had been left out on the counter all night. Not sure if it was old or just a bad choice of bread?? The egg salad was rancid tasting. The other 3 were just not good. I don't believe anything had actually "gone bad" I believe it was just not yummy food. The sweets tray was worse. Obviously just mass ordered, nothing made in house. An English tea isn't right without a good scone with cream & what we were given was a hard, over dry mass produced biscuit with butter. And random other sweets that had no character or charm like an English tea should have. And to have packets of sugars & large spoons, versus sugar cubes & teaspoons??? It's these little things that make English tea, English tea & the price worth it & sadly this price was not worth it. The servers were kind & attentive enough. Were they tea experts, no, & again that's why you pay what you do for an English tea service because you want the expertise

    Winter Menu
    Elko P.

    The food was awesome, a lot of depth to each item and each item had its own unique memorable flavor. I'd definitely be interested in trying each season's menu, although the price is a bit steep- with taxes each person will be about $60. The interior of the place is cute and fancy, adding to the warm comforts of the tea. The service was good and attentive, making sure to explain the different foods on the platter. Overall, a solid 4.6/10 !

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