Tea House Theatre

139 Vauxhall Walk London, SE11 5HL United Kingdom

02072074585

Winner of Time Out Love London Awards 2014, 2016 & 2018!
Winner of the Best Closed Cafe Award 2020!

WELCOME TO THE TEA HOUSE THEATRE

Great news! Our tea subscription just landed! And we are offering a free UK delivery to all our tea subscribers. Have your favourite tea delivered every month for the whole year by buying it as a subscription.  With one simple purchase the cost of the tea will be debited every month and delivered to your door, so that you never run out.  One purchase, no worries and a constant supply of superb tea for whenever you need it.

And of course have a look at our range of excellent teas in our eTea shop if you want to buy just one off.

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We are based in an old Victorian public house that opened in 1886 on the site of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; immortalised as the ‘Vanity Fair’ in Thackeray’s eponymous novel.

We serve some of the best loose leaf teas available, proper sandwiches and homemade cakes; not to mention the best full English breakfast in London. Our teas have individual subtle flavours which would be overpowered by the instant, coarse, hit of coffee, so we do not sell it.

We make our own marmalade and jams, all for sale by the jar and all our teas can be bought by the ounce online (to view our range click here). Our meat comes from our local butcher and our fruit and vegetables from the local market gardens around us.

We are trying to be different. We will not hurry you. If you visit us on your lunch break, then have one, you will be more productive in the afternoon. If you want to have a meeting, we will not disturb you. If you are ‘working from home’, we have wifi. If you have children, we have highchairs, a chest of toys, and milkshakes. We always have the daily papers, so please, relax, and share in what we are trying to create, take a load off, and have a cuppa.

Agora Debate Club is a unique debate club at the Tea House Theatre that allows you to debate on the side you feel most strongly in favour of. Unlike other debate clubs, Agora Debate Club do not assign you a side, instead you choose the side and you argue your own case without the need to coordinate your argument with the other debaters on your side.

Votes will be taken before and after debates, and the side with the greatest swing in its favour, is declared the winner.

We adhere to the Chatham House rules, which means that it is strictly forbidden to name any speaker, whether a debater or anyone else, if you share any statements made during the debates outside of the meeting.

Formality and ceremony are central to our debates to engender respect for opponents and audience as well as to provide a framework for true passion.

We aim to meet six times a year for debates on current or philosophical issues. 

The name "Agora" comes from the ancient Greek word for the marketplace and town square where debates were held. A debate is an expression of the marketplace of ideas, and as we believe in the free trade of ideas, the name Agora Debate Club perfectly expresses what we are all about.

Agora’s logo has three pillars, each representing one of the basic values the club is based on: Reason, Logic and Free Speech.

Each pillar has two ends, six in all, representing the six gatherings we aim to have per year.

Join us and experience the thrill of rational Enlightenment discourse in the heart of legal London.

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES: THERE SHOULD BE NO PROTECTED BELIEFS

MONDAY 30TH MARCH, 6.30PM

Join Barrister and Human Rights Lawyer, Dr Anna Loutfi, and others, in a debate about protected beliefs. Why should any belief be "protected"? And why some beliefs and not others?

TERF or Trans? Whether it is Islam, Transgenderism, Gender Critical views, Christianity or any other religious and/or philosophical world view - why should any of them have special protection in the law?  

In a free society, you should be free to express any opinion and view, but should certain beliefs have special protection?

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PAST EVENTS

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES: ANTI-ZIONISM IS ANTI-SEMITISM

MONDAY 26TH JANUARY, 6.30PM

Baroness Claire Fox and The Survivors' Trust: Will the Rape & Grooming Gangs Inquiry Deliver for the Victims?

WEDNESDAY, 1ST OCTOBER, 6PM