Sneak a peek inside the first butler's café in Japan, opened in 2006 and functioning as a kind of fantasy world – at least for those who fantasise about being served tea by a gentle butler.

For a relatively small amount of money, women from virtually any background can go to a butler cafe and receive the royal treatment. One such cafe, called Swallowtail, is modelled after ...

Swallowtail butler cafe However, a truly cultured lady knows that a butler’s role is not just to provide attentive assistance during high tea, but also while putting together an outfit of appropriate ...

At new “butler” cafes, deferential men serve tea ... the devoted fans of comic books and cartoon animations. Since Swallowtail opened in March, Ayako Abe, who manages the cafe, says business has been ...

A little explanation: Swallowtail is a “butler caf,” a Tokyo restaurant ... Otsuka has planned every detail in the cafe, from the two months of training her butlers must undergo to the ...

Ms Sakamaki recently teamed up with a popular comics bookstore to open Swallowtail Café, Japan's first “butler's café”. At Swallowtail, otome can take tea like English aristocrats ...