We reserved an high tea here in the beginning of this year. Staff was very nice, because I have a quite difficult diet now (no meat, no nuts and no to all the things preggie women can't eat) Which left them with difficulties for high tea.
Still, they were very friendly and came up with alternatives. Only didn't know I couldn't have raw salmon either, so I was stuck with the cheese sandwiches and my love had to eat all that lovely salmon (poor him). Although I was happy with young cheese, I felt they also could have used a more.. expensive.. luxurious cheese? Goat's? Or maybe Brie or Camembert?
Because there was a whole pile of them, I was quite happy with the "ordinary cheese" because using richer cheeses would have also meant they would be very heavy on the stomach. But quality before quantity yes? Fewer sandwiches with more luxurious ingredients would have been lovelier!
The sandwiches were simple, but tasty. We had some scones, those were also nice. A little simple, but ok! And then we got a giant desert course. Our eyes started to shine. And our bellies protested, because we just had all those sandwiches!
But it all looked so good!
Unfortunately.. the brownies were very dry. Not the chocolate mushiness one would expect. The petit-fours were simply cake and strawberry jam (maybe those always are, I don't eat a lot of pastry so excuse me if I am being too simple about them), the cheesecake was ok-ish and.. I don't really remember the other deserts on the plate now, but I know that we were stuck between relief (because if it truly was DELICIOUS we had to eat it all!) or sorrow that it was such a letdown.
Oh well. It was just high tea. So we didn't have lunch or diner or whatever. So we still need to sample this. Still, the place it self is cute. It's near the forests of Amelisweerd and Rhijnauwen (beautiful walking areas!) so it might still be a very lovely place to sit town in between walks. read more