Afternoon Tea at the Waldorf Hotel!

   

 

Hellooo Lovelies,

On Saturday it was my mother’s birthday and as a gift I took her to the Waldorf Hotel in London. We started the day shopping around and buying everything we saw before venturing over! I chose the Waldorf for afternoon tea because not only had everybody online said it was incredible I also was enticed by the idea that it has the same name as Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl. I had booked the afternoon tea for 2pm so we arrived at 1:45 as you have to wait in a little queue with others arriving at that time. The room was full of subtle chatter and a harpist playing in the centre. The room its self was so beautiful with such intricate detail especially the sparkly chandeliers! 

We started off with Tea because it isn’t Afternoon tea without tea and so I just had English breakfast tea while my mum opted to go with coffee. The man bought some mini sand timers that my mother and I instantly thought we could only be there for a certain time until we realised it was how long to let your tea brew for!

Next came out a plate of sandwiches, Ham and Mustard (my favourite!), cheese and cucumber, egg and cress, tomato cheese and salmon. The Ham one definitely had to be my favourite closely followed by the gorgeous egg!

Then came the incredible of all incredible things… the cake tier! The plates consisted of scones, chocolate finger sponge, tiramisu, passion fruit cupcakes, macaroons and so many more! My favourite had to be the tiramisu because it was so creamy I loved it. My mother loved the chocolate finger sponge because it was freshly out the oven and still warm so the chocolate chunks were still melted which was a great touch! Overall the food was of a very high standard and we thoroughly enjoyed all of it.

If you are out in London then I would really recommend booking for afternoon tea here. Throughout the meal there was also a harpist playing which really added to the atmosphere. Staff at the Waldorf were all so welcoming and even bought out a slice of cheesecake for my mum and we all sang because it was her birthday!

I hope you have enjoyed this post and are having a lovely week!

-Abigail x

Afternoon Tea at the Runneymede on Thames!

Hiyaaaa! 

So today I went for Afternoon tea to celebrate Mya's Birthday. This was a late birthday treat bought for her by Cayetana and myself. We took Mya to the Runneymede on Thames.  

Upon being seated we were given a selection of herbal teas, I choose the Green Tea, which was complimentary refillable throughout the experience. Because I’m a green tea addict I ended up drinking 5 cups... oops!

Then came the best bit… FOOOD! The bottom layer consisted of finger sandwiches filled with: Ham and Mustard, Cucumber and Cream Cheese, Salmon and Cream Cheese and finally Egg and Cress. My personal favourite was the Egg and Cress sandwich however both the other girls liked the salmon sandwiches the best. Some of the sandwiches where made with white bread, the others being wholemeal. I much prefer wholemeal bread; however being a day where you can stuff your face with cake and no one cares why not just eat the white bread.

After devouring the sandwiches we moved onto the second tier. This was sugar galore. I firstly tucked into two shortbread biscuits that were sandwiched together with cream. As well as this upon the outside was jam shaped into a pear. This biscuit literally melted into the mouth and went all gooey which in my books is a 5/5! The cupcake seemed ever so ordinary yet when I took a bite, lemon curd oozed everywhere! This matched the bright yellow icing with dried citrus fruit pieces sprinkled over. Also on this tier was a medium sized Éclair, filled with clotted cream and a large helping of custard. Over the top was drizzled chocolate adding an extra kick. Finally was my favourite of the tier, Fruit cake. Fruit cake always reminds me of my grandma at Christmas because she makes the world’s best cake! This one wasn’t nearly as good as hers, yet still was amazing, filled with glace cherries and fruit.

On the final top tier was the scones (pronounced either like gone or cone depends who you are! I’m a gone girl at heart.) Upon my scone I dolloped endless amounts of clotted cream (as if I hadn’t had enough throughout the day already!) followed by strawberry jam. Scones are one of my favourite treats because they remind me of my childhood when I used to go to John Lewis with my mother and we would eat cheese scones for a mid-morning snack.

After my voracious appetite was gone, we were served with a cool drink of sparkling elderflower and mint. This wasn’t to my taste buds liking… I absolutely adore elderflower however I felt the mint took away the exquisite taste.

I shall do a post later this week talking about the make-up that I wore through a get ready with me post, however I will let you know now that my dress is from New Look. I purchased the dress last June for my Step-Fathers 50^th birthday meal, so they probably don’t sell this anymore, sorry!

I hope you have enjoyed this post; the girls mentioned above are linked below:

Mya’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/mya_pb

Cayetana’s Blog post of the day: http://pastelaurora.blogspot.co.uk/

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