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Afternoon Tea at Essington’s Old School Tea Rooms
Traditional afternoon teas have made a huge comeback in recent years and you can now sample them in a host of settings, from hotels to restaurants and in the most modern of settings. But it is always wonderful to find a place which takes you back to a time when tea was served in a parlour, in a real china cup, and cakes came stacked up on beautiful stands. The Old School Tea Rooms in Essington do just that. Since it was launched earlier this year, The Parlour at The Old School Tea Rooms have been a resounding success, offering an Afternoon Tea which is great value (just £11 per…
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A Riot of Colour in the Harvey Nichols Cafe
It is no secret that I love to sample a good afternoon tea. I could quite frankly live on scones and clotted cream, macaroons and copious amounts of strong tea. Add a glass of something fizzy and bubbly and you have all the ingredients for my perfect afternoon. So when the lovely Katie Sayers, the resident food expert at Harvey Nichols Birmingham, asked me if I would like to sample one of their new ‘Riot of Colour’ afternoon teas, I almost did a dance of joy. With my dining partners, hubby Peter and 4 year-old Joe, we took a trip to the Expresso Cafe. Tea, cream and cakes – what…
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Afternoon tea at Hotel La Tour
An invitation to sample the latest delights of the Hotel La Tour Best of British Afternoon tea menu is one that simply cannot be refused. So, last Tuesday, taking my mom along as a special treat, I paid a visit to what is fast becoming the destination in Birmingham for ladies who lunch in style. Hotel La Tour is a beautiful, independent hotel in the heart of the city. It manages to cleverly combine it’s very modern design with the element of cosiness that makes it the perfect venue for enjoying a girlie catch-up, with sumptuous cocktails and delicious deserts thrown in for good measure. We were there to sample…
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Christmas is coming to Hotel La Tour
Hotel La Tour is the newest must visit destination in Birmingham. A stunning, ultra modern, landmark building on the Brummie skyline, Hotel La Tour offers a beautiful setting for luxurious dining. So I was very excited last week when I received an invite from my lovely friend and fellow blogger Emily Jayne to sample their latest afternoon tea offering which promised a real taste of Christmas. It was the coldest and windiest day imaginable last Thursday, but Hotel La Tour soon raised the spirits – it was in the middle of being decorated for Christmas and looked simply beautiful, like those gorgeous New York hotels you always see in festive…
