DD and I both decided on the Buckingham Palace for our tea. It came with our choice of tea, teas sandwiches, a scone and a jam tart and choice of tow pastries, strawberries and cream or trifle for desert.
DD chose the Gardenview Blend for her tea, our waiter said it had hints of chocolate and berries, DD said it tasted like water, so I tried it after having a cup of mine, I agreed with her, tasted like sugar water. Im not sure if it did not steep long enough but she ended up ordering a sprite. I chose the Princess Blend, hints of vanilla bean and strawberries
, this was very good. I wanted to purchase some to bring home, but forgot to stop and buy some.
The tea sandwiches came with an onion tart usually, but the waiter said they were trying out some different sandwiches for an upcoming menu change and offered us one of them as a replacement for the onion tart. I stayed with the onion tart, but DD opted to try one of the new sandwiches. Her choices were, roast beef with a horseradish cream, wine poached salmon, or roasted vegetable. DD chose the roasted vegetable. The tea sandwiches we received were pear and gorgonzola, DD and I both loved this one and are trying to recreate it at home, it was the perfect sweet, salty, savory sandwich. There was shrimp salad, I ate both as DD wouldnt touch hers, it was tasty but not incredible. There was chicken salad that was a little salty but okay. One was cucumber and watercress, this one was better than the chicken but still not wow. The last one was egg salad, DD doesnt care for egg salad so she didnt eat hers. It was egg salad, nothing special. The onion tart was really good, I could have quite happily eaten quite a few more those. The roasted vegetable sandwich was served open faced and had thin slices of summer squash and zucchini with an herb spread on a baguette. She let me have a bite and ate the rest herself. It was no bigger than the rest of the sandwiches so maybe 3 bites total. DD said it was good, I thought it was rather bland, but so were some of the other sandwiches.
The scone with the Devonshire cream was very good the scone was light with just a hint of sweetness. DD wouldnt try the cream and put jam on her scone, not one crumb remained on her plate from that scone. The jam tarts are very sweet in contrast to the scone. In hindsight I should have eaten some of the jam tart between bites of the scone, it would have balanced the sweetness of the tart a little.
DD chose two pastries for her dessert, an éclair which said very good and a chocolate covered strawberry which she said was fantastic and asked if she could have more. I told her no as I knew what was coming next. I had the biggest bowl of fresh strawberries and whipped cream. Those berries were sweet and juicy and the whipped cream was to die for. It was the perfect dessert.
DD's Dessets
Strawberries and cream
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, the chocolate chip cookies ears were dipped in chocolate and DD scoffed those up before I knew it, she did give me a bite of cookie and it was soft and chocolaty just like I like them
, neither of us liked it and we threw it out. I wish I could remember what flavor it was; receipt says Van/plain Fudge mix. We enjoyed our snacks as we waited for the show to start.
