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Guess The Weight Of The Langham's Gingerbread House To Win A Tea
4.5ft high. Four days to make. Hundreds of sweets stuck onto it: those are the stats for the incredible gingerbread house at the Langham London.
The house has been set up in Palm Court (the tea room), in order to coincide with the Festive Afternoon Tea that the hotel is offering as well as the sconegasmic Bijoux Tea. We popped by last week and - wow. It's incredible. Little wonder everyone is queuing to get their photo taken in front of it.
But it's not just a pretty face - you can actually win an afternoon tea for two if you guess the weight of the gingerbread house. Or rather, the amount of gingerbread used in its construction.
Entries should be rounded to the nearest kg and entered on the Langham's Facebook page by 23 December - so you have a little time.
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The Langham's Bijoux Tea Will Give You A Sconegasm
Initially, it was love at first sight – we’d never seen anything so exquisite. Then, it was reputation – once we heard Britney was a fan, we wanted in as well. So that’s how we ended up trotting along to the Langham London this week, to try the new Stephen Webster Bijoux Tea that launched last month.
First thing to know – book ahead. Weekends can book up to five weeks in advance. Weekdays are a little easier, since there are three sittings. On the day we went, there was space for the 5.30pm sitting. But you don’t want to risk that – book about a week in advance.
Second thing to know: the Bijoux Tea isn’t the only one on offer. There’s also the Wonderland Tea (the standard one, £38) High Tea (£38, served from 5-6.30pm with things like crumpets and fruit cake) and the 1865 Langham High Tea (£40, served from 7-8.30pm, including cold canapés and fruit). The Bijoux Tea is more expensive, at £49pp. So what do you get for your extra cash?
Absurd prettiness, for a start – the tea is a work of art, and you’ll probably feel guilty about destroying it. But hey, it’s there to be demolished.
There are three courses to the tea, as with a normal one: sandwiches, scones, and cakes. But that’s as close to a standard afternoon tea as you get. Instead of smoked salmon and cucumber sandwiches, you get “smoked salmon and cream cheese with cucumber pearls”; instead of chicken, it’s poached quail breast with grapes and violet (yes, violet). The traditional egg sandwich is a duck egg – an actual duck egg – perched on a nub of bread, while there’s also one with lobster and piquillo peppers on a sub roll and a tiny apple-shaped, green icing-covered choux pastry filled with foie grass and apple.
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The Langham London's New Afternoon Tea Is Diamond. Literally.
Mmm, afternoon tea. It doesn't have to look good for us to take an interest, but that's always a bonus. Hence we're currently salivating over the Stephen Webster Bijoux Tea at the Langham Hotel London.
Stephen Webster, for those who don't know, is a jewellery artist, so the tea - which has been inspired by his Murder She Wrote collection - is lovely and bright, or, as the Langham says, "celebrates both British fashion and traditional afternoon tea with transgressive design and literary heritage." No diamonds, unfortunately, but you do get shimmering icing and gold cakes.
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San Fran's Crescent Hotel to Host an Exotic Pop-Up Tea Salon
It's summer and a hot cuppa may be the last thing you want. But we'll risk overheating to take some sips at Crescent Hotel's pop-up salon, but there won't be an egg salad sandwich or Earl Grey in sight.
Dubbed Kettle Whistle, the exotic three-flight afternoon tea will feature Taiwanese oolong and some untraditional pairings. The event will take place throughout the Bay Area each month. The inaugural pop-up tea salon will take place in the hotel's Burritt Room on June 25.
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In the Mood for Proper Scones with Devonshire Clotted Cream?
Okay, we admit that sometime before we had our coffee this morning, the Royal Wedding got to us and melted our hard hearts just a tad. We're not sure which part was our favorite exactly, but Kate's departure (and the first glimpse of the Sarah Burton-designed Alexander McQueen dress) from The Goring definitely ranks up there.
As we've previously reported, The Goring is Middleton headquarters this week, as Kate stayed there last night, prepped for the wedding there, had her final fitting with Sarah Burton there, and her parents will remain there tonight. Therefore we're betting that it's going to be a feat to access the hotel to soak in some of the royal spirit. In fact, The Goring will likely be overrun with Royal Wedding-obsessed tourists and locals alike for the next few months at least.
Therefore, you're going to need another suggestion for a great hotel afternoon tea, hmm?
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The Drake Gets Royal Wedding Fever with Its Own Tea and Nuptials Screening
London hotels have been seeing wedding bells like crazy for the impending nuptials between Prince William and Kate Middleton, but it looks like royal wedding fever is coming stateside. The Drake in Chicago is joining the Kate and Wills craziness with its own fit-for-a-princess event London's Calling: The Royal Wedding Tea Party on April 29.
The hotel's Palm Court will be decorated as if there were an actual British wedding taking place there, with fake wedding cakes on display, an aisle runner, flowers and more. While you won't be able to watch the vows live there, you won't miss a second of the royal I-dos, since it'll be shown on one large-screen and five 50-inch plasma TVs. A bride and hat models will also make the rounds throughout the room during the service.
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The Cavendish Jumps on the Bandwagon with a Royal Wedding Tea
Just as we predicted, the Royal Packages are coming thick and fast. Last week we found a selection of Royal Wedding Afternoon Tea deals we'd happily get in on and now we've got to add one more; the latest hotel to offer tea and Kate cake is The Cavendish London.
The Cavendish’s Royal Afternoon Tea features Victoria sponge cake, fruit cake with royal icing, a selection of Katie's chocolate truffles, Williams pear and almond tart and the usual scones and sarnies. We’re a little disappointed with the lack of fresh ideas here, but we’re sure the food will good, even if it isn't truly Royal. On the plus side, at only £18 per person it’s the cheapest high tea we have come across.
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Some Royal Wedding Packages We'd Happily Get In On: Afternoon Tea
You may not want to stay in London on a Royal Wedding Package (because you have more sense than money, like), but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on the Kate-n-Wills joy. No, for a fraction of the price, you can just fill your stomach instead! If you want to have a royally nice afternoon tea, try some of these wedding specials.
Hilton Park Lane
The Hilton London Park Lane have created a Royal Wedding Sapphire Afternoon tea - named after Diana's Kate's engagement ring. Sadly there's no sapphire for you, but it does include references to the gem throughout.
The tea includes a Loveberry cocktail, cupcakes with "K" and "W" decorations and bouquet icing, shortbread wedding cake and passion fruit hearts. Combine these with the usual suspects and you got yourself the Royal Wedding Sapphire Afternoon tea. Available from April 26 - May 1, from £32 per person. You can book online here.
The Royal Horseguards
The Royal Horseguards Hotel, never ones to miss a out on a high tea package opportunity, has come up with a Regal Afternon Tea and judging by the photo it looks pretty good.
The menu plays on words and it too has Sapphire tea, coronation chicken sarnies, miniature iced wedding cake, Queen of Puddings, Kir Royale jelly, English Rose cupcakes and William and Kate inscribed heart-shaped cookies. We just hope it's served on a Union Jack table cloth like in the photo. Priced at £32 per person and available throughout April.
The Langham London
The Langham Hotel London's Tea Royale’ is the most expensive Royal Wedding high tea we've come across at £51.50 per person, however this is the Langham we're talking about.
Apart from the royal price there's a glass of Champagne Laurent-Perrier NV to start, Westminster Abbey chocolate cake, Apricot and Raspberry Royal Crown and Royal Champagne jelly. To be brutally honest it doesn't look like there's been that much effort on the hotel's side here apart from sticking a "royal" name in front of the ingredients. But at least the food will be good. Available throughout April.
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High Tea And Hearts At The Sheraton Park Lane
With its cousin the W London Leicester Square hogging the lime light, we thought we’d check-in on The Sheraton Park Lane, and whilst we were there we thought we’d check-out the high tea, it was Valentine’s day after all.
Stepping inside the hotel is like stepping back in time and not always in a good way. Some of it could do with a revamp - the toilets, staircases and lobby all need bringing back to life, although we noted some work taking place so hopefully it’s getting a facelift.
But we couldn’t fault good old Palm Court which is looking just as grand as ever. Nor could we fault the selection of sandwiches, scones and cakes which we ate to the sound of a harpist. The high tea served here is about as traditional as it gets, only we opted for the V day spesh.
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Lift Your Pinkie Finger for Vegetarian, Stella McCartney Tea Time in Hong Kong
How much do we love proper hotel tea times? So much, and when you throw fashion into the equation, especially sustainable fashion and an organic sensibility, we're ordering the Oolong faster than you can say "crumpet." For March, it looks like the best hotel to do tea will be the Landmark Mandarian Oriental Hong Kong as they pair up with vegan British designer Stella McCartney for a unique menu of only organic, vegetarian items.
What's more is the whole thing is to be inspired by her feminine Spring/Summer 2011 collection, but as food:
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The Dorchester Now Taking Reservations for Fashion Tea with Amanda Wakely
We really enjoyed sharing afternoon tea with Katy Perry at Claridige’s last year. Ok, ok we may not have been invited by her but that didn’t stop us getting extra close to her table and gawking.
So when we saw that The Dorchester was running a special afternoon tea with Amanda Wakeley we couldn’t resist sharing it with you. Especially as the designer will actually be present, table-hopping to solve your shopping queries and share her experiences of the fashion industry.
Yes folks, Fashion Week is once again rearing its stylish coif in major cities all over the world and that means hotels are doing what they can to remain in vogue.
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At Swissôtel The Howard in London, It's Never Too Early for Christmas Tea
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas everywhere we go. And with Christmas decorations comes Christmas cocktails, Christmas menus and of course Christmas afternoon tea. The five star Swissôtel The Howard, London got in there first with their Christmas afternoon tea starting as early as Nov 15th.
The hotel recently won the National Baking Industry Award 2010 for its TLSee Afternoon Tea so we guess it’s got to be worth a trip.
The festive afternoon tea will have shortbreads in the shape of miniature Christmas trees, reindeers and candy canes, traditional Mince pies, Cinnamon Cup cakes and the usual scones and sarnies. As Christmas is the time of giving the hotel will also be offering a free TLSee mug to every guest who orders a cup of mulled wine.
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