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...at half past three, everything stops for tea...
Tea consumption increased dramatically during the early nineteenth century, and it is around
this time that Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford is said to have complained of “having that
sinking feeling” during the late afternoon. At the time it was usual for people to take only two
main meals a day, breakfast and dinner at around 8 o’clock in the evening. The solution for the
Duchess was a pot of tea and a light snack, taken privately in her boudoir, during the afternoon.
Later friends were invited to join her in her rooms at Woburn Abbey over the
summer and the practice proved so popular that the Duchess continued it when she
returned to London, sending cards to her friends asking them to join her for “tea and a
walking the fields.” Other social hostesses quickly picked up on the idea and the practice
became respectable enough to move it into the drawing room. Before long all of
fashionable society were sipping tea and nibbling sandwiches in the middle of the afternoon
SNOW QUEEN
AFTERNOON TEA
SELECTION OF SAVOURIES
London cured smoked salmon blini, caviar, lemon crème fraîche
Mini tartlet of cropwell bishop stilton, poached pear and walnuts
Prawn cocktail, marie rose
Selection of fingers sandwiches
CAKES AND PASTRIES
Snowstorm
Coconut cream, mint macaroon, candy floss
The magic mirror
Salted butter shortbread, yogurt cream, frosted blueberries, sugar shards
Snow Queen’s sceptre
Chocolate & pearl sponge, praline ganache dipped in chocolate, snowflake lace
Palace snowflakes
Blackcurrant and cardamom cake, crushed glittering meringue, silver snowflake
Blackberry kisses
Crème patisserie & blackberries
FRESHLY BAKED PLAIN AND RAISIN SCONES
Served with Devonshire clotted cream, homemade strawberry jam and mix berries curd
Free Flowing Champagne Afternoon Tea £55 per person
Afternoon Tea £39 per person
Each table has a 1 hour & 30mins time allocation
All prices are inclusive of V.A.T at current rate and is subject to discretionary service charge at 12.5%
Some of our menu items contain nuts, seeds and other allergens. Please ask a member of staff who may be able to help.
FINE TEA SELECTION
£4.95
(£2.50 supplement for the Afternoon Tea)
Japanese Sencha
Sweet, thick and grassy with flavours of sweet pea, fresh grasses and umami
Vintage Raw Puerh
Puerh has been aged in carefully controlled environments. The aging process adds a
fascinating dimension. Maturing the tea into something richer, smoother, mellower and
more complex but without losing the original life of the young fresh leaf. The flavour of
well selected and aged puerh has anappeal which is the taste of time and life itself
Oriental Beauty Supreme
Oriental Beauty Supreme is complex and aromatic with harmonious notes of apple, ripe
pineapple and fragrant cedar wood. It has a concentrated flavour with distinctive
natural sweetness and fragrant cedar aroma. This tea originates from south of the Tapei
in Er-Mei, Xin Zhu County, Taiwan
BLACK TEA
Breakfast
Rich and robust with a fantastically malty flavour
Earl Grey
Refreshing and sweet with lifted citrus charm, freshening the structured tenacity
of the Ceylon leaf
Darjeeling 2nd Flush
Rich and full-bodied aroma with hints of the sought after muscatel flavour
for which the second flush is famed
Vanilla Black
Dark, neat black tea-leaf infuses to reveal an intoxicating aroma of moist
vanilla pods leaching into sweet raisin fruits
Decaffeinated Ceylon
A decaffeinated Ceylon black tea, still with the same great flavour, body and
richness typical of our other Ceylon teas. Robust and rounded, with plenty of grip
and structure and rich finishing flavours of malt
WHITE TEA
Jasmine Silver Needle
A perfect balance of delicate white tea taste and sweet jasmine aromatics
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GREEN TEA
Organic Gunpowder Supreme
Light, sweet and deeply refreshing. In Chinese this tea is called ‘Zhu Cha’ which means
‘Pearl Tea’ on account of the way it is rolled during production
Organic Jade Sword Clean, rounded, full and grassy with faint seaweed complexities.
Brisk and refreshing with a textured finish
Organic & Fair Trade Dragon Well
Warm and creamy mouth-feel, hazelnut notes and intense spring-freshness
SCENTED
Whole Rose Buds
Beautiful and graceful notes of sweet-edged rose with a refreshingly
light and palate-cleansing finish
FLOWERING TEA
Flowering Osmanthus
A base of green tea buds topped with orange lily petals and bursts of orange
asmanthus blossoms. Beautifully sweet with notes of apricot and mango
OOLONG TEA
Yellow Gold
Yellow Gold is hand-rolled with an aroma and flavour combining caramel notes,
tangy citrus and fresh grasses, supported by quenching syrupy sweetness
HERBAL TEA
Whole Chamomile Flowers
Fresh, cleansing and intensely enjoyable to drink
Rooibos
Gentle tangy notes of Seville orange combined
with soft-textured hints of vanilla
Peppermint Leaves Tea
A refreshing trip into mint heaven
Fresh Ginger and Lemon Tea
Cleansing and revitalising
Lemon Verbena
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