My lovely BFF, Y, took me for afternoon tea yesterday. We went to Fortnum & Mason at the Royal Exchange.
Amazing building, the architecture of the grade 1 building is stunning. It was a good tea, and fab company.
It all went by in a flash. The train journey there and back gave us plenty of opportunity for uninterrupted chat and catch up.
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We were fortunate to be seated in a corner booth, so it was one of the 4 most comfortable tables.
It was a proper china teapot, china plates, and decent leaf tea - and a good selection to choose from. Often, it's a cheap teapot, or a spuddly teapot, or cheap tea, any of which really spoils the experience (for me, anyway).
The highlight of the meal was a pâtisserie item which was shaped like a
tiny, bright green, apple. We speculated that it would be marzipan, but
it was actually a mousse cake, with tiny apple pieces in stewed apple in the centre.
It was divine.
I'm suffering today from an overload of sugar (my sugar tank has been overloaded for some time), but it was worth it.
