![]() Another landmark London experience under our belts and saved for posterity. 5/5ĭesserts: A little bit of everything, and all of it delightful. Scones: Just the one, but the blueberry and orange jam makes it a mighty fine one. Savoury selection: Delicious, and the comte cheese egg and soldiers pushed it over the edge. Service: Lovely waiting staff who couldn’t have been more attentive. ![]() This came out with me the next day, providing a welcomed distraction between South Ealing and Acton Town as my tube stalled at a red signal One of the two takeaway boxes I brought away at the end of the tea. Okay, I need to stop hanging around these unisex toilets. Turner Prize art installation meets ‘ 2001: A Space Odyssey‘ meets ‘Alien‘ meets inside-out Kinder Egg collection Take out the rainbow panelling and this is the pastel version of the giant eggs hatching in Roland Emmerich’s ‘ Godzilla’Įgg-shaped “pee-pod” toilets. Ta-ra, you kitschy curio.Įgg-shaped toilet cubicles, or “pee-pods” as I have christened them. The pink palace may have had a facelift, but we shall preserve its vintage, day-glo, Doris Day/Rock Hudson 60’s sex comedy vibe for all eternity. So, as a belated goodbye to The Gallery of old, let’s pay homage to Jayne Mansfield’s boudoir with pithy captions and fabulous photos. It is, without doubt, one of my favourite afternoon teas and worthy of every bit of the hype it has received, though things have changed quite a bit since my visit late last year. So, reverting to the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words to make up for my laziness, I present you with a pictorial tour of my adventures at Sketch. All the classics), I have little time for waffle. However, owing to a recent spate of unexpected journeys across the globe (Poland, Bangor. ![]() It was… well, expensive, though as I’ve mentioned, this was the era before wiping yourself on the shower curtain to avoid buying loo roll was a viable cost cutting measure, and as my then £60pp afternoon tea has now skyrocketed to £75pp, I feel I got something of a bargain. Dining at this glamourous, Michelin-starred extravaganza had been an ambition of mine for years, and it didn’t disappoint. Whilst recently sorting through photographs on my phone, I realised that this was an experience too good to remain forever trapped in The Cloud. Sadly, being the sort of blogger who writes better in their head and is often distracted by shiny objects, I put writing about this experience on the backburner where it simmered to the point of evaporation. I was able to tick ‘Afternoon tea at Sketch’ off my ‘Teas To Taste With Bankruptcy Nigh’ bucket list during the halcyon days of 2021, back when we could still afford to eat and didn’t need an overdraft to boil the kettle. A shorter post today, but don’t let the lack of paragraphs fool you. Served Monday-Sunday 11:00 – 16:00 Afternoon tea at The Gallery at Sketch, Mayfair
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