The Boston Public Library expanded its afternoon tea service
You can now spend your summer days sipping tea and eating pastries by the BPL’s courtyard.
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Your afternoons just got a little bit fancier. The Boston Public Library’s Courtyard Restaurant in its historic McKim Building is expanding its afternoon tea services.
In order to do so, the restaurant ended its usual lunch service, officially wrapping up last week, according to an email from The Catered Affair, which runs the restaurant. Courtyard revealed its updated afternoon tea service hours on its renovated website.
Afternoon tea service is now available Monday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for $35 (all sandwiches and sweets included). Previously, afternoon tea was only available on those days starting at 2 p.m.
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The afternoon tea menu includes tea finger sandwiches from the classic cucumber and cream cheese to deviled chicken and smoked salmon options, an array of pastries like chocolate sinclairs and French macarons, and tea scones. It also includes plenty of loose leaf tea options, with multiple black, green, and herbal teas, including blood orange hibiscus, matcha, and more.
The BPL also plans to open Newsfeed Cafe sometime this summer, a 4,500-square-foot space that will house a satellite WGBH studio. It will be located at the corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets in the Johnson Building, which has been undergoing construction as part of a larger renovation.
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