The Langham - Wonderland afternoon tea - 31st of July

What is more English than traditional afternoon tea? Such a great invention! However, should only be had in moderation since you probably consume enough calories to last you for 3 days!


Since my partners parents were visiting from Germany we decided to book in for afternoon tea at the Langham in London. http://london.langhamhotels.co.uk/restaurants/palm_court.htm

They have an amazing afternoon tea menu called "Wonderland" based on the famous Alice of course :-)

The Palm court room where the tea is served is stunning with lots of muted colours, glass and gold. There is also a man playing piano during the afternoon - very civilised indeed.

The tea menu is as long a a wine list in a restaurant and it is quite fun to read about all the different tea's. I decided on a "Lychee red" with was delicious.

We got a little welcome treat of "vanilla pannacotta with pineapple and lemon grass".. very nice and very moorish.


We started off with the finger sandwiches, there were 5 different kinds of sandwiches including egg & cress, chicken & tarragon, cucumber & cream cheese, tuna & sweetcorn and salmon & horseradish. I was so hungry that i forgot to take a photo at this point (i only had a small breakfast and no lunch in order to prepare for the calories ahead).

We then moved on to some wonderful, and still warm from the oven scones. There were 2 kinds, with raisins or without served with strawberry jam and clotted cream. Lovely!


However, we could not over indulge in the scones since we still had the lovely wonderland pastries to eat.

We had some amazing little almond madeleines topped with a pistagio cream and fresh raspberries - my favorite! There were also orange carrot cakes with a violet glaze and edible gold, white chocolate and strawberry eclairs and shortbread lollipops. The latter were quite boring but looked great.



We walked out of the Langham clutching our bellies.. but it was worth it!