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| - I had occassion to go to MoRoCo this past Sunday. I took my very British mother for afternoon tea. This place has been reccommended to me by a number of people. We have had high tea at a few other locations. In my opinion, better places than MoRoCo.
First, you are warned when you book a high tea reservation to eat lunch that day (high tea starts at 2:30 p.m.). Interesting. The reason? For $55 for full tea, you get four finger sandwhiches, some petit fours, three very small scones and some preserves, lemon curd and devon creme. Cumulatively, one small plate of food if everything were confined to one plate. Although the food is rich, buttery and chocolate-laden, it is still expensive.
The food was good, I'll give it that. Our actual server was also good, though no better or worse than a server at a non-Yorkville establishment would be.
My problem was with my exit. I had made the reservation two days prior and confirmed it the following day. I had to provide a credit card number to secure my reservation, as though it was a hotel room. When I was leaving, a female staff member (hostess perhaps) quite literally chased me down yelling "Wait!". I thought I had forgotten something at my table.
No- apparently, I had some form of verbal contract with MoRoCo which I had deviated from. When I made a high tea reservation for 3 and my husband later decided to order from their brunch menu instead of the tea menu, I was advised not to worry for this time, but that they had prepared all of the tea foods in advance which had now been wasted.
Interesting for many reasons. The most obvious being that there are tea options- including a cream tea or a high tea. I did not at any time specify which one I would be ordering. I don't usually decide what I want to eat two days in advance. Maybe I'm weird.
Anyway, the gist of my review is that while the food is good (not great, but good), it's overpriced (even compared to it's High Tea neighbours like the Windsor Arms and The King Edward Hotel, etc.), it's minimal proportions and to top it off, the management is downright rude to customers who just spent $150 on $5 worth of food.
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