If you're around Gloucester Docks and fancy a proper cup of tea, we suggest popping into this traditional Old English tea and coffee shop.

At Upstairs Downstairs in Gloucester Docks you will find a truly traditional Old English tea and coffee shop. Vic and Shirley Foster are proud to have been awarded a ‘five out of five’ Food Hygiene Rating by Gloucester City Council in July 2011, and the quality shows through - treat yourself when you are next in Gloucester Docks and you will not be disappointed.

The tea and coffee shop is set on the first floor of Upstairs Downstairs, in a room overlooking the ground floor of the Antiques Emporium with vaulted ceilings and an eclectic mix of furniture and furnishings including wingback leather chairs.

Enjoy a sandwich and a cup of tea whilst resting your feet after a busy morning exploring Gloucester.

To sit here is a real home from home and you easily soak up the friendly atmosphere around you. The comfortable surroundings are filled with the soft lighting of lamps giving a cosy feel while you relax and take a bite to eat or drink, or why not have both.

The menu offers you a good range of food, including a variety of fresh home-made cakes to enjoy with your choice of tea or real coffee. Choose from a slice of cake or a muffin, fruit or plain. They are all mouthwateringly tempting and difficult to resist.

Enjoy a proper cup of tea in the comfortable surroundings of Upstairs Downstairs.

Perhaps you are looking for something more to go with your cake after wandering around the antiques at Upstairs Downstairs. Then you will not be disappointed. Why not a sandwich or two? - with quite a few fillings on offer there is another choice to be made here. Soup and a roll with some delicious savouries? or maybe just a simple slice of toast. Soft drinks are available too if you prefer something cold.

The tea and coffee shop at Upstairs Downstairs is worth a visit on its' own even if you are not looking for an antique, a piece of jewellery or a perfume bottle for your dressing table. Why not see if you can walk through the emporium and not stop and look on your way for a coffee! It may be difficult. The items here at the Antiques Emporium are as tempting as the food in the teashop.

If you haven't got the time to stop, a full takeaway service is available too.

The teashop is within Upstairs Downstairs at 2 Severn Road, Gloucester where Vic and Shirley Foster will warmly greet you.