Tea House Theatre

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

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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.

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Art Amongst the Rubble

  • Tea House Theatre 139 Vauxhall Walk London, SE11 5HL United Kingdom (map)

Art Amongst the Rubble: Voices Beyond the Empire This summer, Tea House Theatre opens its doors — and its stage — to voices too often unheard.

Art Amongst the Rubble is a living, breathing celebration of creativity from across the post-Soviet and formerly Soviet-influenced world. It is a space to reflect, reclaim, and reimagine identity through art, amidst the echoes of empire.

Through film, dance, theatre, music, poetry, and visual expression, we gather to explore what freedom felt like when it arrived, how capitalism collided with culture, and what it means to integrate — or resist — the values of the wider world. These are stories of displacement and renewal, of rubble and resilience.

We want to hear your story — but not only yours. Come and share the stories of your parents, your grandparents — those who lived through it, carried it, survived it, or resisted it. Their voices matter too. This is a space for remembering as much as it is for expressing.

Sunday 20th July | 7 PM | Free Entry This is a free and open evening — a warm welcome to everyone, whether you’re performing, sharing, or simply listening.

We invite you to join us at the Tea House Theatre to meet others with stories from that “other” part of the world — from lives shaped by a different system, different truths. Come to hear and be heard. It is a gathering. A remembering. A reimagining. Come and witness how art grows from ruin — and help us shape this living archive of post-imperial creativity.

Earlier Event: July 18
COLLIERS WOOD - SHANTY SINGERS
Later Event: July 23
Tuneless Choir