Afternoon tea is a rip off largely aimed at ripping women off

@Choux, I don't think I have ever seen a Hungry Horse so possibly they don't trade in the rural SW UK.

I went with my male partner, and he enjoyed it too.

Most places I have been too don't offer more stuff. I think that's rare now.

I have also done afternoon tea on cruises too. Either in final dining room with the stands. Or just help yourself st buffet.

I loved the buffet version! Pick your own sarnie and I skipped the score mostly and had cakes. Think I did it every day for those weeks!

There are 250 Hungry Horse pubs apparently.

DS works in a very exclusive boutique hotel, where the food would definitely rate Michelin stars if they were bothered, but they don't because they are full anyway. Michelin is a marketing tactic and a score keeping device.

Yes!

Afternoon tea is overrated, imo!

I don’t think anyone actually knows 🤷🏼‍♀️. It’s one of the mysteries of life, even Google gives mixed answers.

I would like to know before I die, maybe when I retire I’ll try to get to the bottom of it and become one of those people who dedicate their lives to solving mysteries and crimes. I will visit cafes and bakeries and interview people and find a research team.

I just discovered that McDonald’s do a hot cross bun pie whilst googling for answers so all was not wasted 😂.

Me. In a lovely place.

I had an auntie and when she died we had an afternoon tea to remember her, as it was one of her favourite things. When her and her sister were in their 80s, her sister's daughter treated them to afternoon tea at flashy places such as The Ritz. She loved it. After she would talk about the little sandwiches and cakes. She inspired me to go to afternoon tea in Lucknam Park, Wiltshire, for £48, and the room to have it was beautiful. Then we could go for a walk around the garden after. I really enjoyed it.

Cock is extra.

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Stockport v New York

Savoury Morning Tea is a thing. With mini meaty sliders instead of sandwiches and savoury pieces as well cake. Often a mini soup or sausage roll, that sort of thing.

I like it cos I can drink more coffee in the morning!

Most 5 star hotels will be upward of £50 each.

This. Most posters really aren't getting it. Everything marketed at women is more expensive. And there's only a handful of things that are actually FOR women (bras, menstrual products etc) - the rest is just stereotyped bollocks. Of course no one is forcing women to go and have expensive afternoon tea but neither is anyone forcing women to buy an expensive "lady's" razor instead of a cheaper and betger "men's" one. But the fact they are marketed and priced the way they are is down to systemic sexism yes. I agree there are a million more important things to worry about. But it's still annoying. And yes OP ooh a cheeky prosecco arghhh it is so cringe and gross (and I actually like prosecco!)

Specially the ones that charge over 50 quid ahead.

Where the fuck are you going for afternoon tea - the Savoy???

The most posh hotel near me (think gorgeous country house wedding venue type place) charges £25 per head. You can add a glass of fizz for £5 to £7. It's beautiful patisserie, a full 3 tier cake stand, and you can sit for hours chatting with no one chasing you to buy anything else. We would spend way more on a "night out" of meal and wine so it's pretty good value for a catch-up with friends.

I don't think it can be found in my area, outside of a supermarket cafe.

I am NOT the original poster saying a meal out for four costs £28 but I do know where to find such food.

I quite like an afternoon tea, but then again I'd eat pretty much anything in mini form. Christmas time is a particular treat, I have many mini dinners from M&S.

Adult Mains from £8.79. Kids meals £3.99. It's a chain but might not be the same price countrywide.

www.hungryhorse.co.uk/pubs/lancashire/cherry-tree/menu?type=kids+menu&section=starters

And I'd take your option too @fungipie very happily, but this was a present.

I noticed a lot of people commenting that they prefer more sandwiches to cakes when they go for afternoon tea.

There is a very popular place in the Lake District that does an “alternative afternoon tea”
Instead of just tiny cucumber sandwiches and scones it does soup, smoked salmon and prawn cocktail, mini burgers, fish finger sliders, or mini fish and chips, scotch eggs, pigs in blankets, sausage rolls etc…
They do scones and a couple of other cakes but it’s mainly savoury.

I think it’s great Value at £35 each and includes a glass of Prosecco or a Bellini, I don’t drink tea or coffee so normal afternoon tea is wasted on me.

The menu changes regularly but I’ve included a link in case anyone visits the lakes and wants to give it a try.
@Coddy it sounds like it might be more up your street, no giggling girlies saying “ohhh this looks naughty!” and taking photos with glasses held up, There have been bacon sandwich includedAfternoon tea there as well!

Ah well- give me a decent cuppa, scone, decent jam and clotted cream :) I am easily pleased. Lol, honestly.

I remember a thread on what constitutes ‘a round of toast’. I don’t remember if a consensus was reached. I think a round of toast is a slice, and a round of sandwiches is two slices sandwiched together with a filling, aka a sandwich. But I may be incorrect.

More than you would expect @fungipie . It cost that, with staff discount, for two, and no prosecco. Patisserie is expensive because it's so highly skilled and time consuming.