Travel alot on Easyjet, Ryanair and any other carrier that will take us to where we want to go. Ret...
Travel alot on Easyjet, Ryanair and any other carrier that will take us to where we want to go. Retired from working a Scheme Manager and lots of knocks on door to now knocking on doors of hotels.
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Afternoon tea seems to be an English affair that a lot of us enjoy. Having been for tea at The Ritz any other afternoon tea would be a hard act to follow.
My daughter and I where shopping and thought we would go and try the Marks and Spencer afternoon tea. The cost of this is £8-35 for two, not bad when you pay a couple of quid for a cup of tea or coffee.
Afternoon Tea is served to you at your table on a three tier stand, with a Devon Scone, Clotted Cream and Jam on the bottom and top tier and the pack of sandwiches of your choice on the middle tier. It looks o.k. but the sandwiches are in the see through packaging and not arranged to look nice. I suppose that it is food hygiene that probably stops the staff taking them out of the packaging and placing them on a plate……..We also had a pot of tea, Marks and Spencer Gold Label Tea, which gave the two of us two cups, and a small jug of milk.
The choice of sandwiches left a lot to be desired as you can only have what they have in their fridge already made up in the packaging. If you where a vegetarian and your companion not then the choice is limited. I myself am not a fish eater so the prawn etc pack is a no go for a start. You can get the obligatory egg mayo which gives you 4 of the same, or the veggie which consists of egg mayo with 3 cheese sandwiches, or the all meat. Out of 10 this would be 6 a little more if the presentation had been better.
It was very nice, the scones where delicious, and you had a good amount of cream and jam served with it, so out of 10 they would have 9.
The tea, well I have to admit I am a real tea person, with leaves and a strainer, but I do also admit to drinking Marks and Spencer Gold Label Tea, which I may add is getting harder to buy in the loose leaf variety, so out of 10 I will give the score of 10.
As I say all in all it was very nice but the presentation could have been a little better, so well done Marks and Spencer.
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