{"key":"71eab452af","origin":"osm","osm_id":"n10032909005","category":"Food & Drink","subcategory":"Café / Coffee","community":"Qualicum Beach","lat":49.3590415,"lon":-124.4121561,"verdict":"include","name":{"value":"The Camellia Tea Room","source":"enrichment"},"description":{"value":"The Camellia Tea Room is a volunteer-run café occupying the former drawing room of the historic Milner estate, set within the Milner Gardens & Woodland botanical property on the outskirts of Qualicum Beach with views over the Salish Sea. The seasonal menu draws directly on produce grown in the estate gardens and features house-made scones, rotating soups, and desserts alongside teas sourced from the local Denman Island Tea Company. It is a genuinely distinctive stop on Vancouver Island's cycling routes, though cyclists should note that garden admission is required to access the tea room.","source":"sonnet_4.6"},"website":{"value":"https://milnergardens.viu.ca/camellia-tea-room","source":"enrichment"},"address":{"value":"2179 Island Hwy W, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1G1","source":"enrichment"},"phone":{"value":"250-740-6380","source":"enrichment"},"email":{"value":"geoff.ball@viu.ca","source":"html"},"route_slugs":[],"centrally_administered":false,"bike_parking_detail":null,"raw_osm":{"amenity":"cafe","check_date":"2024-07-26","cuisine":"tea","name":"The Camellia Tea Room"},"enrichment_extras":{"reasoning":"The website confirms the tea room is a real, operating business within Milner Gardens & Woodland at 2179 Island Hwy W, Qualicum Beach — address sourced from the contact page since OSM has none. Several menu items are explicitly labeled GF, DF, and VG, confirming vegetarian/vegan/GF options. No mention of bike parking, bike racks, washrooms, water refill, Wi-Fi, or any cycling-specific infrastructure was found anywhere in the website content.","concerns":["OSM record has no address or phone; both were sourced from the website contact page.","Garden admission is required to access the tea room (confirmed on visitor info page) — cyclists must pay entry to the gardens to use the café.","Phone number listed (250-740-6380) is for the Executive Director; no single main public phone number is provided for the tea room directly.","Cash is not accepted at the Camellia Tea Room (debit/credit only, no AMEX) — noted on visitor info page.","No bike parking infrastructure of any kind mentioned on the website."],"recommended_status_reason":"Real, operating café within a public botanical garden near Qualicum Beach; the website confirms current operations and seasonal menu. A distinctive and worthwhile stop for touring cyclists in the area.","confirmed_open":true,"contact_confirmed":{"phone":null,"website":true,"address":null},"notes":"The tea room is run primarily by volunteers and is part of Vancouver Island University's Milner Gardens & Woodland property. A dedicated Tea Room Supervisor (Jason Doyle, Jason.Doyle@viu.ca) is listed on the contact page."},"provenance":{"enrichment_run":"density","enrichment_model":"sonnet_4.6","verdict_source":"enrichment","category_source":"osm","category_correction_reason":null,"review_priority":false,"sidecars_applied":["subcategory","wow","price_tier"],"subcategory_source":"osm_tag","subcategory_confidence":"high"},"required_criteria":{"Washrooms":{"value":true,"source":"inferred:subcategory","date":"2026-07-18"},"Water bottle refill":{"value":true,"source":"inferred:subcategory","date":"2026-07-18"}},"optional_amenities":{"Vegetarian / vegan / GF":{"value":true,"detail":"Multiple menu items explicitly labeled: Chocolate Cake (GF and DF), Lemon Blueberry Tart (VG - fully vegan), Seasonal Garden Bounty Soup (GF and VG), Salish Sea Chowder (GF and DF, with vegan salmon-free variant)","source":"sonnet_4.6","date":"2026-07-18"}},"unmapped_criteria":{},"region":"Vancouver Island","ownership":"Buy BC (independent)","indigenous_role":[],"notability":2,"wow_evidence":"volunteer-run café occupying the former drawing room of the historic Milner estate, set within the Milner Gardens & Woodland botanical property... views over the Salish Sea","price":{"band":1,"band_key":"cheap_eats","label":"Cheap eats","confidence":"high","source":"amenity_floor","signal":"amenity=cafe"},"tier":"info"}