Update: Lady Camellia closed its DC tearoom in summer 2020 and reopened in Alexandria, VA in 2023. See our Virginia Afternoon Tea Directory for details.
Where: Georgetown, Washington, DC
Style: Victorian
Tea Selection: 35+ loose leaf teas
Teatimes: Tuesday to Friday 1-5, Saturday to Sunday 11-7
Reservations: Strongly recommended (3-week notice recommended for weekends)
Contact: 202-333-2308
Cost: $38 High Tea; $32 Full Tea; $24 English Pie Tea; $23 Savory Tea; $19 Light Tea; $18 Cream Tea; $21 Children’s Full Tea; $17 Children’s Sandwich Tea (ages 10 and under)
Destination Tea Tip: Request a table in the tea room’s beveled bay window for a cozy, sunlit afternoon tea experience.
Prices and teatimes are subject to change. Please see our DC afternoon tea directory for the latest details.
Destination Tea Notes: Slipped amongst Georgetown’s historic rowhouses, Lady Camellia’s lime green front welcomes tea-goers for a bit of a “choose your own adventure” afternoon tea experience. Once seated in the feminine, intimate tearoom, you first select your afternoon tea menu (options listed above) and then how you’d like to populate it, from the seasonal sandwiches, scones, croissants, English pie and/or pastries currently offered. Repeat customers could easily customize their experience to have a different tea adventure every time they visit. Ensconced in an historical building where tea was surely taken hundreds of years ago, we perch grandly in our Baroque-style chairs, wondering if the quietude we found upon entering warns of stuffiness. Nope! As new guests arrive for their teatimes, the room fills with animated conversation and the vibe is relaxed and friendly, with tea-goers not there to be seen, but rather to see each other.
Tea Service
Scones & Spreads, Savories and Sweets
Wasn’t there a Camellias Tea House or Tea Room in Atlanta GA? Is it gone?
Thank you
Hello Raven, While we do know of Camellia-named tearooms in other cities, if there was a Camellias in our hometown of Atlanta, we are unaware of it. Please do let us know if there is such a venue that we need to add to our ATL directory. And thank you for visiting Destination Tea!