Afternoon tea recommendations?

[AliMonkey]

I’ve been invited to my colleague’s wedding. We’re friendly at work and have similar outlooks on life but I wouldn’t say I know her really well and have actually never met her fiance. They don’t have a wedding gift list (and when asked she said “no, we’d just love to share our day with you”). But I don’t want to go empty-handed as I want to show my appreciation for her inviting me (only me and one other colleague invited). She and her fiance will be moving in together for the first time and, as they both own their flats, they will have loads of stuff so don’t think I should buy something for their flat, even if I knew enough about their tastes to do so. She’s not a big drinker so don’t think eg some nice wine would be good either. So thinking about buying them a voucher (eg Virgin Experience) for a nice meal out or an afternoon tea (the latter probably more within my price range) in London or Surrey or Sussex. Any recommendations for something not necessarily posh but a bit of a treat costing £40-£80ish for the two of them? Or alternatively another gift idea?

You'd be better getting them a gift card for an afternoon tea local to them (e.g. in the nearest town) loads of places do them near to me.

I absolutely hate gift experience things as presents, the venues are rarely convenient so it actually becomes a faff to organise. A good gift should require minimum effort of behalf of the receiver!

We went to Scoff and Banter tea rooms on Oxford St as an Afternoon Tea treat and it was really wonderful. I'd thoroughly recommend.

Have a look at their trip advisor reviews and I've attached their menu below so you can see the options

I agree, Sandstorm, needs to be convenient but personally I'd be a little disappointed with a voucher for something really local as might be somewhere I'd go anyway. I was deliberately a bit vague re location but they could get to many parts of the three places I mentioned in 30-40 mins which to me would be fine. Key thing is flexibility re timing, ie not a voucher that can only be used on a wet Wednesday in the next six weeks ...

HeresMeh, thanks for the Scoff and Banter recommendation - looks great and location is fairly convenient too. Only thing that worries me is that latest TA reviews seem to be from 2016?!

Hi again @AliMonkey

I've just double checked cause I know that I popped a review on in June when I went.. check out the following link which says the last review was posted on 2 Sept...

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/RestaurantReview-g186338-d10436580-Reviews-AfternoonnTeaattScoffBanterrTeaRooms-LondonnEngland.html

There's a few locations for Scoff & Banter but the one we went to was within a Raddison Hotel off of Oxford St

Good luck with your search xx