Afternoon tea at Cedar and Elm is a superb excuse to suit some fancy snacks in between lunch and dinner.
Few higher excuses exist for consuming elegant snacks and a number of desserts in the midst of the day than afternoon tea. The menu at Ravenna’s Queen Mary Tea Room helpfully describes it as a meal designed for “high-society girls” trying to fill “the void between lunch and dinner,” which makes it a enjoyable vacation custom, particular outing with youngsters, or nice option to meet up with pals who wish to steer away from alcohol. (This isn’t so true of excessive tea, which is a heartier, later meal, although the 2 are generally conflated within the US.)
Among the metropolis’s best-known afternoon teas require a little bit of planning, comparable to Cafe Flora’s sequence of seasonally themed vegetarian tea service (vacation, spring, Halloween) and Resort Sorrento’s month-to-month “extra Italian than English” model. However there are many locations prepared so that you can increase these pinkies and produce on the clotted cream regularly.
Queen Mary Tea Room
Ravenna
Colourful multitier towers of treats with dwell music make tea time really feel fancy at Cedar and Elm.
Cedar and Elm
Kenmore
Fairmont Olympic
Downtown
Tea is a longtime custom on the downtown lodge. After a prolonged renovation, tea service now occurs Friday by Sunday within the lounge space of the foyer’s extraordinarily good-looking Olympic Bar, the place armchairs and love seats ship a extra relaxed really feel. Every tower of sweets, sandwiches, and savory bites mirror the polished fare contained in the George restaurant simply up the steps. Your choice from the dozen loose-leaf tea choices will get steeped within the pot, so the end result is finessed, however not overly difficult. The bookshelf-heavy environment skews decidedly grownup, however the Fairmont has a tea menu for teenagers that trades crab profiteroles for cake pops (and even tea for cocoa or lemonade). Reservations open one month upfront and e book up quick.
Polished dessert professional FogRose Atelier makes tea time a completely trendy affair.
FogRose Atelier
Kirkland
White marble tabletops set with polished gold utensils at this downtown Kirkland dessert specialist give afternoon tea a sublime, trendy spin that attracts in {couples} on mid-day dates, tweens feeling fairly grown up, and upscale child showers. The plush powder blue chairs make for comfy seating throughout the 90-minute session that includes limitless cuppas from the menu of 10 teas and a three-tiered tower of treats. FogRose’s signature orange scone sits on the high, with a seafood-heavy savory choice on the backside. The center of the meal, although, are the seasonal sweets in between, like London fog macarons, pumpkin cheesecake cream puffs, and caramel apple mousse cake.
