Old Blighty Tea Room

Atypical place, held by Anglophones. Welcome. parking, toilet.

Hello alison, thank you for your warm welcome, your kindness, a tea room full of beautiful history. We were at home for a good snack with the British guards and other military authorities. Thank you for everything! If you pass through the woods, don't hesitate to take a break, you'll be surprised. Friendly!

Recommended by the staff at Theipval Memorial so decided to give it a try for lunch. Good choice for us, lovely welcome from the English owners and freshly prepared meals to order. Souvenirs are also for sale for the interested collector.

Popped in about four times during my recent Somme visit and every time had a friendly warm welcome from Alison and Jon.. best cup of tea on the Somme and great choice of freshly cooked food... ice creams, soft drinks and little cakes are all yummy and Alison has just started producing delicious cream teas...

My wife I stopped at Old Blighty Tea Rooms for lunch can’t recommend it highly enough. Ideally located on the World War 1 battlefields, near the Lochnegar Crater, it combines good quality home cooked food with a mini museum of war relics. The proprietors were most welcoming and knowledgable about the war and the food was a good quality at a good price. As it’s called the “Blighty Tea Rooms” I chose that English staple, pie n mash with a pot of tea whilst my wife chose the continental fare of Ficelle Picardy with a glass of red wine. The pie had good crispy pastry with a rich deep filling; unlike so many which are mostly gravy with so little content. The mash was smooth creamy with no unpleasant lumps. My wife’s ficelle was cooked to perfection with a rich cheesy sauce accompanied with a crisp fresh salad of varying leaves, cucumber, tomato beetroot and coleslaw. If you are touring the Somme battlefields and want good quality home cooked food at a most reasonable price you can’t do better than stop at the Old Blighty Tea Rooms. I most highly recommend it.