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Where to get the classic British tradition of sandwiches, scones and sweet treats, with tea and sometimes bubbles.
Five sittings a day in a gilded room off Piccadilly, with a cake trolley, a pianist, and a jacket and tie for the men.
HotelOver £80
The Ritz has served afternoon tea since it opened in 1906 and the Palm Court is the room it happens in: a long mirrored space off the Piccadilly entrance, marble-floored, gilded, planted, with a pianist through the afternoon. It is the version of this that every other version is measured against, which is why it goes in five sittings a day and is booked weeks ahead.
What arrives is the full form - finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and strawberry preserve, pastries - and then the cake trolley, wheeled to the table so the last course is chosen rather than plated and can be chosen more than once. Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free teas are built to the same shape rather than apologised for.
The dress code is real and enforced: jacket and tie for men, no jeans or sportswear for anybody. Children under sixteen are exempt from all of it.
Booking recommended
Sittings at 11:30, 13:30, 15:30, 17:30 and 19:30, every day. From £95, children £73. Men are asked for a jacket and tie, and jeans and sportswear are admitted on nobody; the dress code does not apply to under-16s.
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