AFTERNOON TEA AT GROSVENOR HOUSE – A BRITISH TRADITION

“A proper Tea is much nicer than a very nearly Tea” – A.A. Milne

Grosvenor House, London’s largest five star hotel, currently undergoing a multi-million pound restoration, has launched a new concept in afternoon tea in its newly revealed Park Room.

Overlooking Hyde Park, the Park Room offers welcome respite from the bustling West End. Its new afternoon tea menu is designed to appeal to a wide audience and features the traditional afternoon tea menu in addition to an a la carte option allowing guests to choose exactly what they want.

Highlights include old fashioned favourites including freshly baked scones and hot toasted crumpets with butter and comb honey. For those in search of a more exotic alternative, Moroccan tea and Turkish coffee will be accompanied by Medjool dates, Barazec biscuits and Baklava.

Fresh, traceable produce will be used throughout the menu including oak smoked salmon from the Hebrides, free range eggs and organic Devonshire farmhouse clotted cream. Plain and raisin buttermilk scones will be home made in the Grosvenor House kitchens and accompanied by Boddington’s strawberry jam. Loose leaf teas will come from Jackson’s of Piccadilly.

Children will be enchanted by a specially created “Grover” tea time menu including tropical fruit salad, homemade bite size sponge cakes, a choice of ice cream and biscuits. Named after the hotel’s eponymous British Bulldog, children will also be given their own cuddly Grover to take home.

In addition to afternoon tea, the Park Room will offer light breakfasts including fresh fruit and warm, freshly baked croissants and pastries. Homemade soup, salads and sandwiches will be offered over lunchtime and in the evening, canapés and Champagne will precede dinner whilst digestifs and savouries will follow until the early hours.

The Park Room at Grosvenor House will be open from 7am to 2am. For reservations or further information call +44 (0) 207 399 8452 visit www.grosvenor-house.co.uk

Prices for afternoon tea start from £9.50.