Afternoon Tea & Imperial High Tea

Afternoon Tea - £6.95 per person

Afternoon Tea is served on our Sun-Terrace or the Amber Lounge and consists of homemade scones, fresh cream, jam and choice of flavered and tradtional teas, or coffee.

Imperial High Tea - £12.95 per person

Our Imperial High Teas consist of homemade scones, fresh cream, jam, finger sandwiches, cakes and a choice of flavoured and traditional tea, or coffee.

For a £6 supplement we offer a glass of house Champagne to be served with your teas.

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A History of Afternoon Teas…

Afternoon tea, is a small meal snack typically eaten between 2pm and 5pm. The custom of afternoon tea originated in England in the 1840s. At the time, the various classes in England had a divergence in their eating habits. The upper classes typically ate luncheon at about midday and dinner (if not eschewed in favor of the later supper) at 8:00 pm or later, while the lower classes ate dinner at about 11:00 am and then a light supper at around 7:00 pm For both groups, afternoon tea filled a gap in the meals. The custom spread throughout the British Empire and beyond in succeeding decades. However, changes in social customs and working hours mean that most 21st Century Britons will rarely take afternoon tea, if at all.

Traditionally, loose tea is brewed in a teapot and served with milk and sugar. The sugar and caffeine of the concoction provided fortification against afternoon doldrums for the working poor of 19th and early 20th century England who had a significantly lower calorie count and more physically demanding occupation than most westerners today. For laborers, the tea was sometimes accompanied by a small sandwich or baked good (such as scones) that had been packed for them in the morning. For the more privileged, afternoon tea was accompanied by luxury ingredient sandwiches (customarily cucumber, egg and cress, fish paste, ham, and smoked salmon), scones (with clotted cream and jam, see cream tea) and usually cakes and pastries (such as Battenberg, fruit cake or Victoria sponge).

Information from Wikipedia