I'm more into coffee but somehow I was roped into going for afternoon tea to commemorate mother's day. If I had been the one planning, it would have been a bloody mary brunch since I'm not one to enjoy acting subdued as the picture is in my head of ladies drinking tea. My first sip of well-filtered ice water told me the tea was going to taste great. The service was impeccable. The savories and sweets were tasty, I especially loved the curry egg salad and cucumber finger sandwiches,cranberry scones with lemon curd (YUM) but best of all was the champagne split (Laurent-Perrier)which is included with the Grand Royal tea for $40.00. We were served from a split but it seemed we were splitting it with anyone that wanted a refill-they kept it coming. We sat by the piano so the music was just loud enough that we could manage a bawdy conversation. The champagne reminded us that we had much to talk about.
Bonus- it wasn't crowded which is surprising for such a big day, we were able to relax and take our time, none of that sense of need to turn the table.
Bravo!