What: Soho-based bakery Cutter & Squidge are putting their own stamp on afternoon tea with their latest offering. Famous for its unique and quirky creations – spearheaded of course by the Biskie, this is no run of the mill job.
Eat: Lift the lid on the first layer and indulge in a selection of mini sandwiches and smoked cheese scones. Next up is the main event, in the shapely form of a Biskie – the one-of-a-kind fusion of biscuit/cookie /cake filled with lightened buttercream, jams, and award-winning caramels, and a slice of the aptly named dream cake. Both confections use only the finest all-natural ingredients. To finish, an assortment of little sweet treats, including handmade marshmallows, mousses, brownies, and truffles.
What: Afternoon Tea is always a sure-fire earner of brownie points. Fortnum & Mason are pulling out all the stops with their special afternoon tea at The Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon.
Eat: Signature tea towers will be complemented by a plate of delicate pâtisserie designed exclusively for the Mother's Day weekend – including black forest cake with striking mint chocolate work, passion fruit curd, raspberry cheesecake, and salted caramel choux bun. The table can be decked with additional gifts including the new Fortnum & Mason candle collection infused with the grocer's world-renowned teas. Choose beautiful aromas of Earl Grey, Lapsang Souchong and Jasmine.
What: The Ampersand Hotel is bringing back their amazing Mother's Day themed tea, available from Monday 29 February – Sunday 6 March. The hotel's talented pastry chef Mi Kyung Jeong, has created a special Mother's Day Afternoon Tea that boasts all the favorites.
Eat: Start by enjoying a selection of finger sandwiches including Gloucester old spot ham, whole grain mustard on Mediterranean bread, spring smoked salmon, dill and cream cheese on brown bread, among others. Follow this with homemade white chocolate and plain scones, with Devonshire clotted cream and homemade strawberry preserve as well as delicious pastries including rose cupcake, spring tart, Simnel cake, Earl Grey opera, rhubarb compote with rosé champagne.
What: For the day, The Orangery at Kensington Palace will be putting on a special Mother's Day Afternoon Tea complete with a harpist playing on Mothering Sunday from 2 – 4 pm.
Eat: Treat her to an afternoon filled with pastries, orange scented and currant scones, and finger sandwiches in the beautiful setting that is The Orangery. Each tea will be decorated with edible rose petals and a complimentary glass of Rose Spumante Prosecco for each mother. Afterward, enjoy walking through the beautiful grounds of Kensington Gardens.
What: Launching this week, Kurobuta at Harvey Nichols are introducing Scott Hallsworth's unique take on afternoon tea with his Tokyo Tea Party. The menu changes weekly and is served Monday-Sunday from 3-6pm.
Eat: Tasty tea-time treats with an Asian twist. Think warm Kabocha scones (Asian squash), artichoke chopsticks, punk rock sushi, toasty chicken katsu sandwiches, and sticky short rib buns. There's also Green tea ice cream, as well as daily "sweet surprises". All this will be washed down with the coffee or Kurobuta's super refreshing, homemade iced tea.
Eat: The sweet selection includes winterberry custard tart, apple and pear strudel, Battenburg cake, chestnut macaroon, and Oreo cupcake, alongside plain and fruit scones. Nibble on prawn cocktail sandwiches, goat's cheese, and tomato palmier, chorizo rolls, ham and cheese croquettes and the much-loved avocado on sour rye.
What: March brings a bright and creative start to the year with new limited edition creations from Executive Pastry Chef Zoe Wager at Conrad London St. James. Conrad Catwalk afternoon tea offers elegant canapés and light bites to create a delicious journey through the eras of fashion.
Eat: Bites of delicate savory morsels designed to tempt the palate include beetroot wafers, smoked mackerel with horseradish and beetroot caviar. Miniature cherry tart with onion confit and choux pastry offer a fresh and clean taste, whilst the delicious selection of individual finger sandwiches include smoked salmon and crème Fraiche and coronation chicken. The traditional scone has been reinvented with flavors of vanilla bean, raspberry and served with passionfruit curd.
What: Treat your mom to a superb evening tea involvement with The Promenade at The Dorchester. Unwind on their agreeable, high-supported, tufted divans and appreciate a customary British Afternoon Tea joined by a glass of Laurent-Perrier Brut champagne. As an exceptional blessing, all moms joining The Dorchester for evening tea will bring home a little bunch of posies.
Eat: Savory nibbles on offer are, a choice of home-made finger sandwiches on craftsman bread. There are additionally warm raisin and plain scones from their bread kitchen presented with home-made strawberry jam, a regular jam, and Cornish coagulated cream. To complete, there's a fine exhibit of cakes and cakes, and a decision of their uniquely chosen excellent and uncommon teas.
What: Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, the Sanderson is welcoming everybody to appreciate the magnificence of their Mad Hatter's Afternoon Tea. They can hope to find the menu's covered up inside vintage books, tea kettles enhanced with lords and rulers and sandwich plates enlivened with merry go rounds, birdcages and ticking clock.
Eat: Those with a sweet tooth will appreciate the red velvet Ladybird Cake, corrupt scones, and extraordinarily made for Mother's Day, a chocolate pot with raspberry coulis. The appetizing chomps incorporate master sandwiches, for example, great cucumber, rich smoked salmon with caviar scotch egg, and white crab eclairs, all made with a claim to fame fixings.
What: For Mother's Day, The Montagu are revealing their extraordinary Haute Tea, joined by luxurious shocks and extravagance prize draws. Besides, every woman who goes along with them on Sunday, 6 March, will bring home a sumptuous blessing pack with liberal treats and encounters from Molton Brown, Newby Teas, Beauty Rose and bounty more.
Eat: Stylish canapés incorporate smoked salmon sushi, panther print brioche with foie gras and chicken liver parfait, goat's cheddar mousse tartlet, cook meat with horseradish and a decision of popular sandwiches. For sweet fans, dive into vanilla and licorice pannacotta, red velvet precious stone studded macaroon and a chocolate gold stiletto. Adhering to custom, warm organic product scones with lashings of handcrafted strawberry jam Cornish thickened cream and lemon curd are additionally accessible.
What: Get lost in a capricious world 'through the rabbit gap', with the St James' Court, A Taj Hotel's Afternoon Tea in Wonderland, with an elite choice of finger sandwiches, wanton baked goods, and Queen's formula strawberry drop scones.
Eat: The mixed menu of cakes and baked goods is roused by characters and peculiarities from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, similar to 'Ruler of Hearts' mango tarts, 'Drink Me' strawberry mixture, 'Caterpillar's Mushroom' raspberry marshmallows, white chocolate mousse teacups, and pocket watch macaroons. Going with finger sandwiches incorporate Alice English cucumber and cream cheddar on beetroot bread, fish footman fish mayonnaise on white bread and Lory Cornish Yarg and tomato with redcurrant jam.
What: The quintessentially British experience of evening tea has been given a contort with Hush's Gin and Jam mixed drinks, giving you the ideal reason to put some tipple in your lunchtime. Every mixed drink has been curated with Hush's own one of a kind gin and tea, matched with a delectable hand made jam only made for Hush by Wendy Brandon.
Eat: Classic lunchtime treats, including rich finger sandwiches, warm scones with coagulated cream and jam, macaroons and Earl Gray creme brûlée, served close by a determination of craftsman free leaf teas by H. R. Higgins of Mayfair. Served in the wonderful surroundings of Hush's Silver Room, the tea is a quintessentially British encounter, all including Hush's London-refined boutique gin.
What: The Lanesborough will dispatch an exceptional evening tea this current Mother's Day, in the help of mothers2mothers, the philanthropy which tackles the intensity of Mentor Mothers to end pediatric AIDS in Africa. As of late re-opened after its 18-month restoration, the inn will give £5 from every tea which will be accessible between 6 – 24 March straightforwardly to mothers2mothers.
Eat: The inn's star Head Pastry Chef, Nicolas Rouzaud has made an exceptional evening tea to move mindfulness and gifts for the reason. Served in the staggering encompasses of the inn's fancy eatery Celeste, the tea incorporates an uncommonly structured cake propelled by the philanthropy's logo, alongside finger sandwiches, patisseries, and handcrafted scones.
What: The extravagance boutique inn offers a work of art and private Mother's Day evening tea in the rich surroundings of The Jazz Lounge. Everybody can appreciate evening tea while tuning in to the live musician in the 1920s roused room.
Eat: Created by Pastry gourmet specialist Cristiano Paolini the alluring Mother's Day Afternoon Tea consolidates the exemplary with the contemporary and incorporates groups that have been hand-chosen from the world's prime bequests. The inn has its own tea sommelier who offers an astounding scope of tea – including the mark Churchill mix which consolidates the harshness of a dark tea with the sweetness of vanilla and amaretto. All tea is matched with fragile developments of sweets and finger sandwiches.