Lighthouse Tea Room

Frommer's Review

Step inside this lace-curtained room for a taste of an old-fashioned tearoom. It's a handy place if you're touring in the Southampton area on the south shore. After you've climbed the winding steps to the famous Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, you'll have worked up an appetite. If you're lunching here, begin with such starters as warm Camembert cheese topped with a mix of wild berries or salmon-stuffed crepes. A vegetable grill is served with fettuccine noodles in a light hoisin dressing, or else you can order a mango, mozzarella, and walnut salad on a bed of fresh greens. Sandwiches include the amusingly named "Bermuda Triangle" (slices of smoked salmon, tuna, and baby shrimp). More substantial dishes include curried lamb pie and codfish croquettes. In the afternoon you can enjoy any number of specialty teas, including mango apple and strawberry. The owner, Heidi Cowen, is the granddaughter of the last lighthouse keeper who lived here in the 1960s. She too lived in the lighthouse with her grandparents. Ms. Cowen also runs Little Steps Bakery, which produces a range of special gluten-free cakes and breads now available to customers of the Lighthouse.

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