This tea set is available through July 10, 2015, at Kensington Hotel. It is in celebration of the Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum. When my friend came to London to visit and wanted to have afternoon tea, I jumped to the chance.
Price: £35 (click here for 25% off discount valid through 10/07/2015 on afternoontea.co.uk)
Sandwiches are always my favorite part of afternoon tea. Consists of the classic smoked salmon, cucumber, egg mayonnaise, and lobster filled finger sandwiches. Mmmmmm.
Scones were the perfect size, crispy on the outside and soft in the inside. Just how I like it!
The crabmeat and pea puree concoction was not bad, excited how you'd imagine crabmeat and pea puree to be. The quail egg is dusted with a fine layer of edible gold, so is the little crispy roll which is filled with some kind of jam and foie gras paste? Not a food expert and totally forgot to memorize the menue. Overall very special presentation, but I don't really care the for taste much.
Let me just say, the sweet treats look just irresistible. So cute and dainty. The macaron had heavy almond taste, but dense and chewy texture. I'm not a huge fan of jam filled macarons anyways, so it wasn't very special in my opinion. Both the cake and cookie are decorated by fondant. Again, I've never had good tasting fondant, so these were no exception.
The panna cotta was very good though. It is more on the sour side, so tasted like yogurt. The white chocolate pearl on top also has a strong almond taste which I like. The chocolate muffin tasted more like a cakey/chewy brownie to me. Surprisingly good as it was not too sweet like the other sweet treats were. The butterfly is a dainty piece of milk chocolate. I did take the icing/buttercream off of the muffin. Never a fan of icing to start with.
Would I go back if they did a collaboration for another fashion exhibition? Definitely. Anything limited edition just makes it sound so exclusive and make me want to take the opportunity.
My favorite: the brownie muffin
The show stopping: gold quail egg
Hope you all are enjoying summer!
xoxo
Amanda
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