To be sick of "afternoon tea"?

[Geordieminx]

It's gone the same way as cupcakes and "shabby chic" hasn't it?

Afternoon Tea used to be naice.. It's used to be treat but now the world and his wife has jumped on the decking bandwagon.. It's a total rip off and is usually toss

For example.. Hotel today. Country type place, not uber posh but nice.

2 fingers of cheese and pickle sandwiches and 2 fingers of egg.

A one bite sized plain scone

A piece of dry ginger cake

2 petite four sized pieces of short bread.

£20

This is not afternoon tea. It's piss.

It seems that every fecking cafe/bar/hotel now serves afternoon tea to fill the void space between lunch and dinner. £20 for 2 slices of bread, a scone and a piece of cake... You just wouldn't would you? Well no, not if it was served on a plate... But hey stick it on a fancy tiered cake stand and you can charge what you like.

Robbing bastards.

never again

Rant over

[ilovesooty]

There's a Betty's in Ilkley.

[VivaLeBeaver]

Harlow Carr has a Bettys.

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

This may be my natural home

I am on a major diet at the moment, my love for scones with yes, butter jam and cream - strawberry jam please, plays no small part in this.

at all you eating afternoon tea

[Bogeyface]

Anna that is weird, every time I have been there it has been perfect :( There have been a couple of times when I have almost had to trip up the waiting staff to get noticed admittedly, but apart from that it was great. I put that down to lack of training (ex-head waitress, so I am quite critical!)!

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

Another Scone here. Last year we had a really good afternoon tea at the Hilton in Glasgow; the food was plentiful, and they had these charming Charles Rennie Macintosh style teapots that I still lust after.

[Bogeyface]

Scone rhymes with own.

As you were.

[Bogeyface]

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

Bogeyface, where I live (Florida), it certainly does rhyme with "own," but I am trying to change that.

[currentlyconfuseddotcom]

Scone rhymes with on

[Bogeyface]

Scone rhymes with on

It doesn't you know, it really doesn't!

[squoosh]

The town of Scone is pronounce skooooooooooon.

[LittleMissLucy]

Yes, you need Claridges or the Ritz when the pianist is doing his bit in the middle.

[currentlyconfuseddotcom]

Bogey do not speak such sacrilege!

[AlwaysReadyForABlether]

I'm going to York next weekend and plan to spend Saturday afternoon stuffing my face in Betty's. Do you need to queue to get in? I seem to remember hearing something ages ago about huge queues.

[LittleMissLucy]

If you go early, no lining up. Later it gets, longer the line.
Taylors in the shambles is much nicer - dainty tea pots and a view of the street from timbered rooms.

[newyearnewattitude]

Actually it's cream and then jam.... It was invented by us Devon folk and only the silly Cornish (and those failing to be authentic dontcha know but failing miserably) do it the backwards way!! It's sacrilege to put cream on last and anyone who does should be shot!!!

[ExcuseTypos]

Yabu

We've just booked afternoon tea at The Wolseley.

I can't bloody wait

[Geordieminx]

I think in conclusion.. Posh places are fine.

Every other cafe/hotel/bar/restaurant jumping on the bandwagon charging £20+ for a stale sandwich, a rubbish scone and a couple of biscuits is piss.

Amen

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

But if you put the cream on first you wouldn't get any on your nose and that's half the fun

[newyearnewattitude]

You obviously aren't putting enough clotted cream on!

I find that is the main problem outside of Devon.... Down there you can buy huge 5lb tubs of it all year round.... When I moved away I was shocked to find only piddly tubs available at stupid prices!! You need at least 2 inches thick of it on each side of the scone.... (and it's also lush on bread as an after school/work treat with the crusty bit of the cream too)

[apatchylass]

You need to find the nearest Peyton & Byrne. They serve fresh juicy cake - each slice the size of a small independent country, and naice tea - all in at around a fiver.

[Wibblypiglikesbananas]

I'd like to recommend another two lovely places - The Thatched Cottage in Brockenhurst in the New Forest and the Petersham Hotel in Richmond. Both delicious.

I would like to express my disgust at the afternoon tea place in Chester (which shall remain nameless) where scones were served with squirty cream! Total and utter sacrilege...