London Fashion Week Afternoon Tea at The Ampersand Hotel

Enjoy London Fashion Week in true style with Afternoon Tea at The Ampersand Hotel. With deep sofas and studded armchairs, scarlet velvets, and kingfisher blues, The Drawing Rooms is where English heritage meets the 'salon de thé' - the whole instilled with a contemporary Ampersand feel.

London Fashion Week Afternoon Tea

Savoury Gougères:

Gloucester old spot ham, sauce gribiche

Seven & Wye smoked salmon, dill & cream cheese

Coronation chicken and cheese with fruit chutney

Homemade white chocolate scones, jams & clotted cream

Pastries:

Mango, orange & blueberry 'perfume'

Cookie heels on top of a chocolate catwalk

Raspberry & rose mousse, sugar diamond handbags

London Fashion Week Afternoon Tea at The Ampersand Hotel is available from the 13th until the 22nd of September 2013.

£27.50 per person

London Fashion Week Cocktail - 'Coco Chanel' At The Beaufort Bar The Savoy

Coco, Coco Chanel Cocktail

Created by Chris Moore and Fabrizio Fiorito. Coco changed the course of fashion history and she also loved to drink. She was known for believing that red wine and caviar would keep her young. Champagne was also a favourite tipple.

Grey Goose infused with rose and jasmine, Lillet Blanc, Red Wine and Blackberry Reduction, Moët & Chandon 2004. Served in an 1890’s wine glass and garnished with jasmine and rose tea spray and black sugar pearls presented in a small caviar tin.

www.fairmont.com/savoy-london/

MAD HATTERS AFTERNOON TEA PARTY, The Dorchester

MONDAY 28 OCTOBER - SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER

The Mad Hatters Afternoon Tea Party in The Promenade at The Dorchester is a must! with performances by English National Ballet School’s young dancers in collaboration with English National Ballet. The Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse and Alice herself will be found pirouetting, plié-ing and jeté-ing amongst The Promenade tables, stopping to share magical tales with younger guests.

From Monday the 28th of October to Sunday the 3rd of November Afternoon Tea will be served at 2.15pm and at 4.45pm daily.

£51.00 per adult including a glass of champagne

£56.50 per adult with Laurent–Perrier Rose champagne

£30.00 for children aged 5-11

£1 from every booking will be donated to Cancer Research.

Prices are inclusive of VAT and exclusive of service charge at 12.5%.

Art Decadent Tea At The Beaufort Bar, The Savoy London

The Beaufort Bar exudes an unashamedly old-fashioned glamour. In a theatrical, Art Deco interior of jet-black and burnished gold décor, the bar is all about champagne, cocktails and cabaret. The bar stands on the hotel's former cabaret stage that was graced by luminaries such as Carroll Gibbons, the Savoy Orpheans and George Gershwin. This tradition is continued by nightly live entertainment with occasional appearances from cabaret legends and up and coming talent. The bar offers one of London's most extensive choices of champagne by the glass and by the bottle including rare vintages from Louis Roederer and Cristal. These are accompanied by classic and new cocktails served with a witty and playful presentation. Nightly live music and entertainment complete the atmosphere.

The Beaufort Bar, with its dark luxury, gold leaf and champagne, has inspired an indulgent new afternoon tea. Available on Sundays, the Art Decadent Tea has all the ingredients for a lazy afternoon; chilled champagne, Tipsy Tea cocktails, interesting savory selection, warm scones slathered with cream & jam and a tempting array of gorgeously wicked tea pastries.

Menu

Art Decadent Tea 

Glass of Moutard Prestige Rosé NV Champagne 

Savoury

Beetroot and cerney goats cheese macaroons,

Crabmeat salad "black & White"

Gravalax cone and premier cru caviar,

Foie gras ballontine served with pistachio shortbread and rum cherries,

Devon red beef tartare and soft quail eggs

Refresher

Champaign sorbet

Freshly baked raisin and plain scones with home made jam also served with

cornish clotted cream and lemon curd.

Decadent Sweets

Verrine of hazelnut and cremeux with mango passion raspberry crunch

That was Amazing!!

"black & white" battenberg

Grand finale

An Art deco Tower that showcased some devine chocolates made at the hotel.

Includes selection of teas

The Art Decadent Tea is priced at £42.50 per person and is served in the Beaufort Bar on Sundays from 2:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m -- Bookings can only be made for the Art Decadent Tea by email or phone.

Albertopolis Afternoon Tea at the Ampersand Hotel, London

For a taste of Britain’s rich cultural heritage, there are few better locations than South Kensington. From the V&A to the Royal Albert Hall, the streets are overflowing with imposing artistic institutions.

Nicknamed Albertopolis – after its royal patron, Prince – the area is also home to The Ampersand. This privately owned boutique hotel, just off the main road, offers Victoriana with a modern twist. Interiors are inspired by botany, music, geometry, ornithology and astronomy.

The Albertopolis afternoon tea is served in the Drawing Room. It’s a riot of bird prints; on the chairs, cushions, walls and light-fittings. While the menu – created by pastry chef Ji Sun Shin – is a gastronomic stroll down Exhibition Road.

Sweet, floral Jasmine Silver Tip tea is accompanied by an Opera cake topped with edible sheet music (never has Beethoven's Fifth been so tempting). A piece of gingerbread, cleverly shaped like an artist's palette, with colourful blobs of 'paint,' is deep, peppery and delicious.

The Feuilletine tart – a praline shell, filled with mango mousse – features painted tuiles. There’s the Royal Albert Hall (on a square of delicious dark chocolate) and the Albert Memorial (on tasteless, too-thin white).

Albertopolis Afternoon Tea: £27.50 per person or £39.50 per person with a glass of Champagne

www.ampersandhotel.com

BB Bakery County Hall - Tea Salon, London

As you enter the rather beautiful BB Bakery County Hall, you're immediately hit with the sweet smell of baking as your eyes fall upon the most wonderful and seemingly endless cake counter in front of you.

London meets Paris with this quaint, yet modern boutique bakery. All cakes are baked daily by an expert French team of pastry chefs.

Guests can enjoy a full Afternoon Tea experience with a selection of sandwiches, cakes, mini cupcakes, freshly made scones with clotted cream accompanied with a great choice of loose tea from Bartjeman & Barton.

Located just a minute walk from Big Ben, London Eye, London Dungeons and Duck Tours, BB Bakery County Hall is an impressive venue for anyone seeking a delicious Afternoon Tea.

BB AFTERNOON TEA

Finger sandwiches

Freshly baked scones

Sweet pastries

Mini cupcake

Macaroons

Natural orange juice

Choice of teas

£22.00 per person, 

£29.00 with a glass of Rosé French Champagne

www.bb-bakerycountyhall.com

BUTTERFLIES AND ALL THINGS SWEET...THE STORY OF MS B’S CAKES

Bonnae Gokson’s book Butterflies and All Things Sweet opens a window into the inspiration and ideas behind her extraordinary cake designs. Unique in the world, these cakes encapsulate the creative vision of the woman who made her name working with luxury brands including Chanel, Giorgio Armani, W Hotels and Ritz Carlton.

Butterflies and All Things Sweet is not a cookbook, but a visual feast, exploring the ingredients, ideas and inspiration behind the works of edible art through lush photography shot on location in Hong Kong—the home of Bonnae Gokson’s cafes and restaurants—and internationally.

The ruffles of a petticoat. The petals of a delicate peony. Rolls and rolls of satin ribbons in a dozen shades of red. The startling purple hue of taro at the market. The juicy citrus cells of a pomelo, the jewel-like seeds of a pomegranate. Fragrant ripe raspberries at the height of their perfection. The gold luster of a butterfly’s wing, glimpsed and then gone. “When there’s a lot going on, it is the simple things in life that are the most powerful,” she says.

Bonnae Gokson’s privileged upbringing exposed her to fine dining, grand entertaining and extensive international travel, and these influences shaped her destiny as the Hong Kong style icon she is today.

Yet it is her quest for authenticity and joy that drives her creativity, resulting in cakes that taste as extraordinary as they look. “A little flour, a little sugar, a little butter and the power of the imagination: that’s what it takes,” she says. From pure raw ingredients to the last bite, when all that remains is a few crumbs on a hand-painted porcelain plate, each cake is a celebration of all that is sweet and transient in life itself.

Bonnae Gokson’s Hong Kong cafes and restaurants include Ms B’s Cakery, Sevva and C’est La B.

Ms B says “The cakes I create for my customers are like butterflies, here and then gone, devoured in a few sweet bites. This book is the story of my cakes. It’s my thinking cap in a visual form. Spools of brightly colored ribbons, the seeds of a pomegranate, a fragment of handmade lace that holds memories of my years in fashion, the petals of a peony : all these things inspire me to create cakes that give pleasure to my customers. My cakes are also the story of what’s important to me in my life. I value creativity and integrity. I’m fortunate to have had a lifetime of exposure to beautiful things all over the globe, from fine art to high fashion, and now cakes are the medium in which I express all that I’ve absorbed and all that’s important to me“

www.amazon.com/Butterflies-All-Things-Sweet-Story