Communitea Cafe - Dayton

I visited Communitea several years ago and it was very nice. This past weekend when I took my granddaughter for a special “high tea” I was beyond disappointed. We walked into a very musty smelling room with no customers and all the tables uncleared or cleaned. A man came out in a tshirt and greeted us. We sat down and got to choose a tea pot to have our tea served in. Mine was small. I guess that was a mistake because no refills. Our server did bring us food that was fair…..one thing he said was there were deviled eggs on it. Well, I know what a deviled egg is and it is not a boiled egg cut in half. The server never once checked on us. I used the bathroom and the sink was full of black colored mold. I don’t know what’s going on but it was sort of bizarre. Oh and they never even cleared or cleaned the other tables the entire time we were there. Just dirty dishes and food sitting around us.

Cute place! Took my daughter here for her birthday so we could have a real tea party. She loved it we had a really nice time. It was fun trying on colorful hats getting to pick out our own tea pots.

The atmosphere is charming. Guests are able to choose their own tea pots; there are even hats and accessories for guests to wear to enhance their experience Vegetarian options: The selection was excellent Parking: Finding parking is the only downside. Parking is onstreet only, although the church across the street does allow customers to use their lot when there are no events at the church

All of the food was store bought and nothing like the pictures. Very expensive for what you get. Very disappointing

Their pictures do not match how the food is presented. They have a picture of a scone that is on a plate with the doppler of cream and with jam that I have always had scones at other tea rooms. This tea room put them out with the other food with no doppler of cream or jam available. The food was mediocre and all the tea pots had luke warm tea, not one was hot. We had to wait 40 minutes before our food was served. The table was not set. We had to ask for tea cups to put our tea in! One lady used a toothpick y o stir sweetner in her tea. I asked for spoons and the waitress brought out a bunch and threw them down together. She finally offered napkins and we had to pass them around. The owner and waitress were dressed in jeans with a flannel shirt or a t-shirt. The decor was quaint and they had a room for everyone to pick out a hat to wear. That was creative and fun, yet with poor service and mediocre food I give this a 2 star. I think the better reviews were before the present owner took over.