Blue Bird Tea Room and Café

In the novel A Murder is Announced, the Blue Bird Tea Room and Café is a tea shop in Chipping Cleghorn which is located next to the antique shop of Mr Elliot. It is the centre of social life in the village and villages would often stop there for refreshment after their shopping. A number of important meetings took place there in the course of the story, notably between Miss Marple and Dora Bunner.

One of the waitresses at the Bluebird is named Julia. It appears that the uniform for the waitstaff comprises pink overalls with a flight of bluebirds down the front.