Kay’s Tea Parlour

Kay’s Tea Parlour in historic downtown Katy was the perfect setting for tea time with Auntie Sonja. This tea room is conveniently next door to the shop where I found my cowgirl boots, plus it got a personal shout-out in the latest editor’s note of Tea in Texas Magazine. How could we stay away?
The tea shop advertises European flair, which is easy to offer when it’s owned by a Scottish mother-daughter team (I think). Auntie Sonja sipped some iced tea with her roasted vegetable soup. Mum and I shared a big pot of black tea. She had a chicken salad croissant; I had the daily special—yellow split bean soup and chicken pot pie. It’s their most popular dish! Yum! After lunch, be sure to stroll through Katy’s historic downtown, past the antique stores and the old library where we came when we were little. Mum and I had other plans—it was time to pick up Titus from Katy Elementary just a few blocks away. It seemed so much bigger 20 years ago on my first day of third grade in Texas!