Bygone Beautys

Corner Grose & Megalong Streets

Leura NSW 2780

Blue Mountains Australia

1.5 hours drive away from Sydney, you will find the Blue Mountains. I've come here many a times for nature walks in Wentworth falls. BUt this time, we went abit further, to explore Katoomba & the famous three sisters rocks.

My friend's Trish & Joseph, and Mel, all suggested coming to Bygone Beauties for scones & antiques! So after a nice & relaxing stroll through the Katoomba bushwalk, we headed over for some tea.

There is parking out the back, and there were a lot of people coming in & out but they seemed to be parking on the street. We got a spot in the back, and walked around (the long way ) to the entrance eheh (mianly so i could get the photo above). Later on realising that if we had walked the other way - it would of been half the distance..

The store is full of antique toys & knick knacks, this teddy was perched in front of me on a sort-of pillar, so cute!


Lots of cabinets full of brooches, mini toys, jewellry, figurines, and lots of other shiny things.


There are only about 10-15 small tables in this room, we got a table for two right in the centre.


It took a while to get served (even after a lot of waving our hands around). So i was admiring the things in the cabinet beside me. I think i saw a brooch worth $700..


I ordered a pot of japanese green tea ($4.95), while Richard got a pot of peppermint tea $4.35 (i can't stand peppermint in tea, its just tastes really wrong in my mouth..)


A plate of sandwiches with 8 points was about $15. 8 points meaning 8 pieces .. i had to ask i wasnt sure hehe. The bread was about 2 or 3 days old, it definitely wasn't fresh bread. Inside had cheese, lettuce & tomato, plain & simple - but filled us up and we also had a large pot of tea to go with it.


As we were eating we admired the teapots along the walls, this place houses over 3000 teapots on display! (not for sale i don't think so otherwise they probably wouldn't have so many hehe).




We were too full for scones, (and from seeing it served to the other patrons, it didn't look that great anyway. So up we got and explored the place some more. From the outside, you couldn't imagine how many things they fit in this small little house. SOmething in every nook & cranny, absolutely NO spare space at all, everysingle space was filled with something. Not more than one person fitting through the walk ways it was a very tight squeeze (especially with my back pack on hehe).

This doll reminded me of those golliwog biscuits - does anyone remember them? they were dark brown dark chocolate biscuits in the shape of.. this doll. Quite freaky i think



When we were done browsing we headed to the front to pay. & found out there was a minimum of $30 eftpos (and we had no cash!) ANd we had about $7 to spend to reach $30... so back into the shop to find something worth $12..

I ended up picking one of these cute mini teapot sets. Yup that's blutack holding it all together hehe. This was $12.95, the cheapest cutest thing i found. Got it for my little sister she loves it hehe.


To show you how miniature it is, i've taken a photo with a 5 cent coin. Tiny yeah?

There is also seating outside, as it was a slightly windy day, not many people stayed outside. & it was really warm & cosey inside.

I really thank Trish Joeseph & Mel for reccomending this place to visit while we were in Katoomba. I could've spent hours in the shops, but refrain from buying anything as my room is already too full of useless junk hehe.

Tara Tea Rooms

33 George Street
The Rocks
In the middle of the world famous weekend 'Rocks Markets'

Open weekends 10am-5pm.

I've read about Tara Tea room here & here, & because we were waiting for our ferry to Cockatoo Island, had about 35 minutes to spare, we went looking for this place.

It seemed to be a place that stood out, because they are constantly baking scones through out the day, & have a clock board outside showing when the last batch were taken out of the oven hehe i found this so cute, wish i took a photo!

Walking around the rocks, for about 5 minutes i rang Betty, asked if she knew where it was. She wasn't sure. but told me it was next to a min pub on the main road where the rocks markets are situated. Guess what? I was standing right in front of it lols.


It was a gorgeous sunny day, & lucky for us there was a seat outside in the warm sun :)

Richard went inside to order for us, while i got out my camera, ready to take some pictures hehe.

The tea didn't take too long to come out, Richard ordered mint tea, i went with the classes english breakfast tea.



Our pots came out covered in cosies which were soooo damn cutE! Richard the goof didn't take if off before pouring out some tea, and got his partially wet haha silly bugger..

The scones came out shortly after, both served with some strawberry jam & cream. I think they werent enough, i had to scab some of Richards' hehe.

With Richard, he doesnt over do it with the jam & cream which works perfectly for me haha.

maple scones

The maple scones, omg were the bomB! The crunchy top layer was sweet & sugary, went SO well with the soft scone insides.

plain scones

The plain scones weren't as nice as i've had before (nothing beats the scones from QVB's tea room). But the fact that they were fresh made up for it.

We were so relaxed under the sun drinking our tea, before we knew it, it was time to dash before we missed out ferry to Cockatoo island!

We had a mad day of photoshooting, you can find all the piccies here.