Festive Afternoon Tea Round Up - The Lanesborough

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Welcome back to Tea With Me and Friends - we're here today with another festive afternoon tea to make you drool! Today we are featuring the festive afternoon tea from The Lanesborough....

From 25th November - 1st January, The Lanesborough's award-winning Afternoon Tea will take a festive twist, as Head Pastry Chef Nicolas Rouzaud recreates Christmas classics in the form of delicate pastries.

The menu includes....

A selection of traditional finger sandwiches:

Truffle egg mayonnaise & cress

Smoked salmon, caviar & cream cheese

Roast beef, rocket & horseradish cream

Cucumber & mint

Coronation turkey

Homemade scones, fruit preserves, lemon curd and clotted Devonshire cream

Selection of French pastries with a creative, Christmas twist:

Spicy Christmas muffin

Apple and cinnamon doughnut

Mulled wine and pear cake

Mince pie

Praline Rocher

Chestnut tart

Chocolate and coconut finger

Orange mousse sphere and croustillant caramel sable

For more information please visit the Lanesborough website.

Thank you for popping by today,

Rachel & Lorna

Festive Afternoon Tea Round Up - The Corinthia London

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Happy Hump Day -you're joining us today to take a peek at another festive afternoon tea! This time we are exploring the Christmas afternoon tea on offer at The Corinthia London, which has a swan lake theme.

Relax beneath the glow of the Baccarat Chandelier and sample a range of delicious Afternoon Tea cakes, pastries and sandwiches inspired by the elegance of Swan Lake. Nibble on “Odette”, a delicate white chocolate mousse filled with mulled wine infused plums, and delight in the lightness of a “Pirouette”, a choux pastry with cranberry compote and an orange macaroon.

This afternoon tea feast includes the following:

Classic Olivier Salad on White Bread 

Loch Var Smoked Salmon with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe on Beetroot Bread

Cucumber, Buttermilk and Dill on Black Rye Bread 

Wiltshire Ham, Apple and Mustard on Cranberry Bread 

Corn-fed Chicken, Chestnut Butter and Tarragon on Brown Bread 

Pickled Tongue, Horseradish and Beetroot in a Smoked Bun 

Scones served with house preserves and clotted cream.

Followed by the hand crafted pastries:

Odette- A delicate White Chocolate Mousse with Mulled Wine Infused Plums

Odile- A Dark Chocolate Mousse with a Caramel Crémeux

Medovik- Sweet Honey Cake, Caramel and Sour Cream 

White Russian Éclair- Coffee Pastry Cream with a hint of Vodka 

Siegfried’s Sash- Layered Cherries and Tonka Bean Bavarois

A Clearing in the Forest- Caramelised Pistachio Tart, Candied Ginger and Praline Ganache 

Diadème- Lemon Mousse, Raspberry Gelée and Dacquoise

Pirouette - Choux Pastry, Cranberry Compote and Orange Macaroon

This festive feast is available from 25th November 2016 to 1st January 2017. On the 24th and 25th December guests can also enjoy ballerinas performing in the Lobby Lounge between 3pm-5pm.

For more information about this afternoon tea please visit the Corinthia London website.

Thank you for popping by today,

Rachel & Lorna

A Selection of Christmas Afternoon Teas.....

....to make you drool!

Hello there, welcome back to another Christmas afternoon tea post from Tea With Me and Friends. As you know we have been trawling the internet looking at all the lovely places you can enjoy a festive themed afternoon tea this year....we've already shared lots of scrummy photos with you...but today we thought we'd share some more (you can never have too much tea!).

So, we start with this scrummy creation from Park Room at Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel....

Afternoon tea Park Room

The savouries here include Home Smoked Turkey with Cranberry Sauce and Honey Roast Ham with English Mustard sandwiches. While amongst the sweets you will find Orange & Polenta Cake

and Chocolate & Chestnut Roulade.

Or if you fancy something a little more contemporary, maybe the Lancaster Hotel would be a good option....

A contemporary festive afternoon tea at the Lancaster Hotel

This festive Afternoon Tea features Christmas pudding scones, and a roast turkey and cranberry tartlet, along with more traditional items such as cucumber sandwiches and  raspberry macaroons.

You can enjoy mini Christmas puds at the Royal HorseGuards Hotel....

Mini Christmas puds and Christmas trees at Royal Horse Guards

This festive treat includes Mini Homemade Mince Pies, Candy Cane Vanilla Shortbread and Chilli Pineapple and Mount Gay Rum Truffle, along with a glass of spiced champagne. My mouth is watering as I am typing this!

Somewhere rather different that we have not thought of before for a spot of afternoon tea is the Hilton London Gatwick Hotel, the hotel is situated 30 minutes from central London with access to both the M23 and M25 motorways...... take a peek at their scrummy creation....

Afternoon tea at the Hilton London Gatwick Hotel

This festive Afternoon Tea comes complete with roast turkey sandwiches, marzipan Christmas pudding and mulled wine.

Featuring edible decorations is the "baubles of fun at Christmas time" afternoon tea at DoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London......

Festive afternoon tea at DoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London

This tea features White Chocolate & Coconut baubles and Chocolate and orange Baubles! You can also enjoy Apple and cinnamon scones with Sweet Apple chutney and Calvados cream.

Finally I have found this wonderful looking afternoon tea currently being served at The Langham.....

Wedgwood Festive Afternoon Tea - The Langham

Because this looks so amazing (and we love china) we thought you'd appreciate a closer peek at that top tier of sweet treats.....

Beautiful sweet treats - afternoon tea at the Langham

This festive afternoon tea includes pastries inspired by the Wedgwood Collections, including Wedgwood Tea Cups - White chocolate mousse, tropical jelly and dark chocolate sable and "White Cameo on Blue" - Strawberry and white balsamic Victoria sponge.

This has to be one of the prettiest afternoon teas I have seen recently.

We hope you've enjoyed taking a peek at these festive afternoon teas, if you enjoy one of these or another festive afternoon tea, we'd love to hear all about it!

Thank you for popping by today,

Rachel & Lorna

All photos are taken from the hotel's websites