Fancy a cuppa??

It was my two girlfriends' birthday and we decided to celebrate by having this 'once in a life time' afternoon tea feast at The Ritz. We made a reservation for afternoon tea at 7:30pm since they were fully booked during the supposed 'tea time'. Expecting our table to be the only awkward group to have tea for dinner, turns out, every single table of people were having tea (not that weird after all ain't it).

This place was extremely luxurious and high-end I felt completely out of place: Legitimate English gentlemen in tux and ladies expressing as much sexiness as possible (while still remaining elegant) having presumably profound conversations, while I try to walk like a lady through the corridors in fatal anxiety. 

Anyway, back to the afternoon tea. The choices of teas were pretty good, the standard Earl Gray, Darjeeling, Green Tea and all other choices, but I ended up ordering Lemon Verbena (a tea that I have been scavenging for since trying it in Paris). It is this herby tea that I believe has calming effects and was a source of medicine. Finger sandwiches and sweet desserts were served first, and scones were served warm afterwards. I am not joking, the scones are AMAZING!!!! Soft, flaky, buttery, worth all calories for the day! The sandwiches were really good too, aside from the normal smoked salmon, cucumber and eggs, they also had cheese and chutney, ham with mustard and chicken mayo; all of which were really good (loved the ham with mustard one). To be very honest, I've never had afternoon tea with good sweet pastries (partially because I never had 'high class' tea), but it might have been that since the cakes and sweets came as a set, they had to choose the 'not as good' dessert to balance the budget? I have no idea, this is only my assumption. Okay, so since this seemed like such a legitimate afternoon tea, my expectations for the pastries sky-rocketed. The final verdict for pastries: I don't think any sweet pasties in an afternoon tea are the bomb. Let's just focus on scones, tea and sandwiches. They were just, in my opinion, overly sweet and low quality. To be fair, I think if we had ordered cakes and pastries separately, those might be tasty as hell, but in an afternoon tea? I don't think so. 

Final shout out to my lovely ladies, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Love,                 

Vivien