Bakery, Cafe, Restaurant, American , $ $$

It’s hard to miss this historic Spanish Revival-style home-turned-restaurant when driving down Pickwick Street in Springfield’s Rountree neighborhood. For more than 15 years, Tea Bar and Bites Bakery and Cafe has been offering soups, salads, sandwiches as well as daily quiches and other specials. Start with an appetizer like the Mediterranean platter with pita bread, hummus, feta, olive tapenade, tzatziki and a salad. Then, get a taste of several of the café’s classics with the Tea Bar Sampler, which comes with a generous scoop of curried chicken salad or albacore tuna salad on a lettuce leaf and your choice of two daily sides with a baby scone. End your meal with one of the 35 flavors of tea on offer, but make sure to reserve your dessert from the front display case before someone else does.