Afternoon Tea

Where to get the classic British tradition of sandwiches, scones and sweet treats, with tea and sometimes bubbles. Many book up months ahead, and the most popular cannot seat a walk-in at all.

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The Withdrawing Room at The Lanesborough

A Regency room at Hyde Park Corner, in a building that spent a century and a half as a hospital.

HotelOver £80

The Lanesborough is the old St George's Hospital, built in the 1820s by William Wilkins - who also designed the National Gallery - and run as a hospital until 1980. The Withdrawing Room is done in the Regency manner the building came from, and the name is the eighteenth-century one: the room the company withdrew to.

The tea changes theme through the year rather than staying fixed, which is unusual at this end of the market and is either the appeal or the objection depending on your view of a themed cake.

Where
Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7TA
Nearest station
Hyde Park Corner · 2 min walk

Booking recommended

From £92, £102 with a cocktail, £110 or £115 with Laurent-Perrier. The theme changes; it has been running a Bridgerton tea.

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