Gerry’s at Neaversons

I absolutely LOVE this place!
Gerry’s Tea Rooms at Neaversons (opposite the church, near the Hospice Charity Shop) is fab and there is NOTHING else like it.
They have so many different types of teas such as your normal black tea, green teas, white teas, and specialty teas such as ‘popcorn’ or ‘chocolate flake’ etc.
You walk in and it looks rather up market, and we went in there wearing casual clothes (jeans, trainers etc) but it’s suitable for EVERYONE, and the staff are always so helpful and kind.
You can also order food here, you can have sandwiches, which we have not yet had but we did have a look and they all sounded so lovely that we couldn’t choose which one to have.
We settled for the English breakfast which also means you can have unlimited cups of coffee.
Again, I was stunned! I was in heaven! The mushrooms actually tasted like mushrooms, the bacon wasn’t covered in fat, and the sausages were quality produce, no ‘tesco value’ ones.
And the bread was so yummy! Infact, once we finished, I had to ask where they got their bread from :)
We have been here a few times since and the service and quality of the food and tea/​coffee has never let us down.
Do try the teas, even if you are not a tea drinker!
I only have tea sometimes and always have milk with it, but I tried the chocolate flake one and it was so lovely that I didn’t have to have milk with it :)
Even my husband liked it and he HATES tea :)

For many years, Huddersfield had a gift and trinket shop called Neaverson’s. Selling posh housewares and nick nacks, it was a fixture of Byram Street. Alas, it fell out of fashion and closed down. A pity as its glorious art-​deco shop front is one of Huddersfield’s more artful sights.
Recently, the building was turned into a tea room — the equally posh looking Gerry’s at Neaversons. At a time when Starbucks and Costa are apparently breeding, it was a welcome addition to the town’s restaurant and coffee shop provision.
And many people rave about Gerry’s. Its tea and cake menu, promise of local, high quality food sources and general ambience are all very attractive in a highly branded, highly conceptual manner.
But Gerry’s at Neaversons is also highly variable — with the main problem being that, like its twin Verve, it’s all style over substance.
Keeping the old shop frontage and fittings of the iconic Neaverson’s store was a great idea — and the thrift shop furniture and tea cups add to the genteel hipster vibe.
However. The service can be poor, the food is expensive and, sometimes, of questionable quality. We have also been overcharged on two separate occasions for items we did not order.
For example, we recently went in for breakfast. I ordered scrambled egg on toast — which is priced around a fiver. Although the café was not busy, we waited over thirty minutes for the food to arrive. When it did arrive, my meal was two slices of supermarket bread with, literally, a smear of undercooked egg on the side. There was no more than a couple of teaspoon’s full of the off-​yellow, suspect looking matter.
What’s more, this was served by Gerry himself — who was clearly in a foul mood — dumping the plates in front of us and scowling wordlessly.
I don’t mind paying a bit more for a nice ambience — but only if the food is consistently up to scratch. At Gerry’s, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t.
On another occasion, the waiter got our order wrong. We sent back the item (an extra portion of toast), but after paying and leaving, we realised that we’d been charged for it.
But there’s a deeper problem. The place is pretty grubby. It only gets three stars from Kirklees Council for hygiene — but our experience has been more like two. Having tea cups on display around the room may be pretty, but they also gather dust. Every time we’ve been there, we’ve had to wipe out our own cups — or face a floating film of filth on our tea…
My partner has enjoyed better luck with food there, which is why we’ve returned several times. But, personally, I will not eating there again. Every time I have eaten there, I’ve left feeling ripped off and poorly nourished.