Image courtesy of The Langham London Perhaps it’s only fitting that the place to first commercially offer afternoon tea in London should now be recognized as having the best in town. Serving London socialites and fancy pants hotel guests since 1865 (when this newly found …
Photography by Chris Osburn Bloggers Hollow Legs and The Deptford Dame might have beaten us to the bubble tea with their reviews, but Londonist is still intent to share our two fish balls of an opinion about Panda Panda, a newbie “oriental sandwich bar” in …
Meet the frappucino’s sexier cousin, the exotic one he sort of secretly fancies. Originally from Taiwan, bubble tea is ice-blended black tea and plenty of milk shaken to a deliciously frothy consistency with soft chewy “bubbles” of tapioca at the bottom. Californians refer to the …
Photography by Chris Osburn Over the past year or so, we’ve been generally pleased with our visits to the Royal China Club; we loved sampling their dim sum and thought their free chopstick lessons for children was as cute a gimmick as any London restaurant …
In a recent competition, Londoner Sarah Wain became the only female in the top ten TrustMark tradesmen in the country. That’s pretty special but considering she worked suited and booted in Savile Row PR for the first part of her career, we’re doubly impressed that …
Cups of tea! Dressing up boxes! Ornate, floral crockery! Staff dressed in monochrome! Cupcakes! You get the gist. We recently discovered the simply adorable Betty Blythe tea shop and fine food pantry in beautiful Brook Green and didn’t want to leave. The drool-worthy shelves of …
Photograph by Chris Dreyfus Somewhere between The Secret Garden and Alice in Wonderland is London’s little haven of sweetness. The walled garden tucked behind Rococo Chocolate’s Knightsbridge store transports you to a world of tranquillity far away from the hustle and bustle of the London …
Over the weekend, the Royal Lancaster Hotel offered a Fairtrade Banana Afternoon Tea with a selection of freshly prepared Fairtrade banana finger sandwiches, “banana fancies”, and a choice from a selection of Fairtrade teas. The introduction of this especially a-peel-ing menu coincided with the end …
Then you have a choice to make. You can either join the Linnean Society in their historic headquarters for a talk on the history of tea, or you can join the Brick Lane Circle and Roy Moxham at the Whitechapel Idea Store for a, erm, …
Has the Bramah Museum of Tea & Coffee, of 40 Southwark Street, closed for good? The website insists that the museum is only closed for ‘refurbishment’ until early 2009, but To Let signs were quite clearly visible adorning the exterior of the building when Londonist …
Pandering to gender stereotypes is always going to get our attention. Remember when TfL tried to tell the little ladies how to use the tube? The sillies. Well, now a West London hotel is beefing up their afternoon tea to attract more men. Manly men …
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