The Meeting Place Tea Rooms

One of two coffeeshops /​cafes on the lovely, quaint stretch of Sycamore Road in the middle of Bourenville Green. This one is the more upmarket of the two — the other being a more old school cakeshop that happens to have chairs and tables out front. The Meeting Place is as good as it’s name and has a spacious interior which makes it a great place to meet friends. It’s a little on the pricey side, I feel, but you are paying for a great location and a comfortable, quiet and welcoming space. If you ever decide to visit Cadbury World this would be an ideal place to take a break after the madness of the Chocolate Factory.

I visited here for the first time last year; I’d decided to do a tour of the entire 11 route (all 3 hours!) and Bournville seemed like a good halfway point to have a break.
The relaxed little time-​capsuled village was definitely the perfect resting point, and The Meeting Place Tea Rooms looked like a great café to stop by and take in the scenery.
Entering the tea rooms, I expected the inside to replicate the old fashioned village heritage, but unfortunately, I was instead greeted by a fairly modern interior. Very few customers were sitting at the tables, considering the time was 5pm, I thought more people would spend time in here after work; seemingly not! (I certainly would!)
Drink weren’t especially cheap, and a teapot of rooibos tea cost me £2 (I managed to salvage one and a half cups out if it.) I have also purchased a chocolate brownie from here in the past, which was very delicious, but again, a little pricey.
The café experience was lovely and relaxed, and the premises was absolutely spotlessly clean. Also, I found it quite quirky that you had to ask for a key behind the counter to use the toilets, like it was some sort of secret taboo!

I popped in here after a long walk around Bournville and since then I have been back once or twice. It is a sweet little café, it’s simplistic and reminds me of a country café. The staff are warm and welcoming and they serve a variety of cakes and pastries. The tea isn’t fabulous, but I am rather fussy about tea. However, the cappuccinos are fantastically frothy. I feel like it is a café where you can go and read a book for ages and they won’t mind; it’s quite relaxed and there are always others in there too. I like this café very much, it is lovely and I can’t help but go back, it’s a good place to sit and think and drink coffee. It is a great meeting place, as the title suggests.