Cafe $ $$$ Like the annual and popular Country Women’s Association Tea Rooms at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, visiting the CWA’s scone-fuelled equivalent at its Eastwood-Epping branch brings simple joys. Housed in the Eastwood Women’s Rest Centre, the CWA’s only tea rooms in Sydney is a place of charity, resourcefulness and hardworking volunteers. It is also a place where a person can have a Devonshire tea – two scones with a pot of tea or coffee and dishes of jam and cream – for $6.
Although, on Thursday, that might be $6.50, because date scones are also available and their price is 50¢ more. You can have a glass of milk for $1, or a glass of cordial for 50¢.
You can have two scones with jam and cream for $3.50. Two takeaway scones are $2 (date $2.
50). In this hurly-burly world, there may be nothing more civil, reassuring or uplifting than eating a CWA scone in a CWA tea room. At the Eastwood-Epping branch’s rooms, tables decorated with flowers and triangular paper napkins in holders.
There are shelves and cabinets stocked with member-made jams, pickles, handmade clothing, knitwear, accessories and craft. There are shelves of donated secondhand books and garlands of crocheted flags. Most are for sale.
Along with the food and drinks, they raise money to support women and their families in country areas, along with local charities and hospitals. Scones are made in the rest centre’s kitchen by CWA members each morning. They are unfalteringly light and soft, ea.