Yesterday, my friends and I went on our annual festival afternoon tea visit. This year, we went to Claridge's hotel to enjoy their festive afternoon tea, one of the hotels my friends have been wanting to visit for afternoon tea for years but failed to get in a reservation until this year. The festive afternoon tea had a couple of different options - one with champagne and another with Christmas pudding. The afternoon tea included a selection of sandwiches, a starter of mushroom in puff pastry, scones with jam and cream, and a selection of sweet pastries.
I had a glass of champagne to start.
A mushroom pate in a puff pastry tart was served next.
We had our selections of sandwiches. The standard menu included salmon, turkey, ham, cucumber, and egg. The vegetarian selection had butternut squash, a celeriac, and a parsnip option.
There were a selection of plain and fruit scones with clotted cream and a cranberry jam.
We also received a birthday cheesecake.
The sweet pastries included a Black Forest Christmas tree, Cranberry and pistachio tart, Clementine and festive spice choux pastry, and a coconut, mango, and passionfruit snowball.
My favourite was the snowball.
Claridge's Christmas tree this year was designed by Daniel Lee for Burberry. The tree is decorated with bows, a Victorian symbol of unity. It also has Scotland symbols and colours.
The festive afternoon tea experience was accompanied by a chorus of carol singers.
I enjoyed the visit to Claridge's for the festive afternoon tea. The only downside was that the service was a little bit slow for us, although they gave us extra scones and pastries, and we had a small chocolate in a box to take home with us.
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