Our British Afternoon Tea

The 21st April marks National Tea Day and we thought we’d celebrate the occasion by hitting the refresh button on our popular afternoon tea. Executive chef Dale Osborne and Head pastry chef Ji Sun Shin have updated our contemporary British tea to include delicious new savoury and sweet treats.

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Sorbet & champagne: our new ‘Summer Cocktails’

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We think this summer should be all about sorbet and Champagne! Refreshing, flavourful, fun, and always a treat.

As a child, summers in Italy for Luca, our Bars manager, were full of fresh, fruity sorbets, and he wanted to recreated that feeling of childhood delight in a delicious frozen treat. Like chefs, bartenders get inspiration from seasonal produce and Luca is no different. He explained that “creating new drinks is about taking familiar techniques and adopting them, and being inspired by the environment you’re in, so with these drinks I wanted to use the beautiful British summer fruits and herbs available to us, and make a delicious sorbet”.

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