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From 3 November to 3 January, except Christmas Day, only the festive tea is served, at \u00a3120 on weekdays and \u00a3130 at weekends. Booking essential.","website":"https://www.maybourne.com/en/hotels/claridges/restaurants-bars/afternoon-tea","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["children","historic","hotel","over-80"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Tea in the hotel's own foyer, in the jade-and-white striped china that is Claridge's signature.","note":"The Foyer and the Reading Room run into each other under Claridge's art deco, and tea is what the rooms are busiest for. The china is jade and white stripes and has become enough of a signature that the hotel sells the set so people can lay it at home.\n\nThe sandwiches are built on British specialities, smoked Scottish salmon among them, and the pastries change with the season. The teas run from a deep oolong to the house Claridge's Blend, and the staff will put one against the food rather than leave you to guess.\n\nThree versions - traditional, champagne, rose champagne - except between early November and the first days of January, when the festive tea replaces all of them.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Foyer & Reading Room at Claridge's, Claridge's, Brook Street, W1K 4HR, London","in_area":{"slug":"mayfair","name":"Mayfair"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Korda's office, Grosvenor Street","s":"alexander-korda","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":81},{"n":"Charles Ede","s":"charles-ede","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":89},{"n":"Ben Brown Fine Arts","s":"ben-brown-fine-arts","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":112}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":727},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":803},{"s":"the-veranda-at-the-goring","m":1662},{"s":"the-gallery-at-the-savoy","m":1889}]},{"slug":"the-gallery-at-the-savoy","name":"The Gallery at The Savoy","area":"Strand","address":"The Savoy, Strand, WC2R 0EZ","station":"Embankment","walk":4,"lat":51.510127,"lng":-0.120499,"hours":[[12.0,18.75],[12.0,18.75],[12.0,18.75],[12.0,18.75],[12.0,18.75],[12.0,18.75],[12.0,18.75]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 12:00-18:45","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.thesavoylondon.com/restaurant/afternoon-tea/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"From \u00a390, children \u00a345. Twilight Tea runs from 18:00 to 21:30 at \u00a349, with a cocktail in place of the champagne.","website":"https://www.thesavoylondon.com/restaurant/afternoon-tea/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["children","historic","hotel","over-80"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Tea under a stained-glass dome with a pianist, in the hotel that has been serving it since 1889.","note":"The Savoy has served afternoon tea since 1889, when fashionable London came for sandwiches, patisserie and thes dansants with a band playing. It happens now in the Gallery, under a stained-glass dome that lights the room from above: peach-toned, planted with palms, a marble walk down the middle, and a pianist through the afternoon.\n\nFinger sandwiches, the hotel's own scones, patisserie, and more than thirty teas to choose between. A high tea adds a hot savoury course; champagne is extra.\n\nIf the afternoon is gone, Twilight Tea runs from six, which is the same idea after dark with a cocktail instead.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Gallery at The Savoy, The Savoy, Strand, WC2R 0EZ, London","in_area":{"slug":"covent-garden","name":"Covent Garden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Monet's window at the Savoy","s":"claude-monet","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":16},{"n":"Michael Faraday statue, Savoy Place","s":"michael-faraday-statue-savoy-place","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":114},{"n":"Sakurado","s":"sakurado-covent-garden","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":127}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":1240},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":1484},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":1889},{"s":"the-veranda-at-the-goring","m":2221}]},{"slug":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","name":"The Palm Court at The Ritz","area":"St James's","address":"150 Piccadilly, W1J 9BR","station":"Green Park","walk":2,"lat":51.507191,"lng":-0.141425,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":"https://www.theritzlondon.com/dine-with-us/afternoon-tea/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"Sittings at 11:30, 13:30, 15:30, 17:30 and 19:30, every day. From \u00a395, children \u00a373. 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.","website":"https://www.theritzlondon.com/dine-with-us/afternoon-tea/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["children","historic","hotel","over-80","vegan"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Five sittings a day in a gilded room off Piccadilly, with a cake trolley, a pianist, and a jacket and tie for the men.","note":"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.\n\nWhat 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.\n\nThe 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.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Palm Court at The Ritz, 150 Piccadilly, W1J 9BR, London","in_area":{"slug":"st-jamess","name":"St James's"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Wolseley","s":"the-wolseley","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":42},{"n":"Modern Art","s":"modern-art","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":72},{"n":"Peter Harrington","s":"peter-harrington","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":97}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":253},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":727},{"s":"the-veranda-at-the-goring","m":1102},{"s":"the-gallery-at-the-savoy","m":1484}]},{"slug":"the-veranda-at-the-goring","name":"The Veranda at The Goring","area":"Victoria","address":"Beeston Place, SW1W 0JW","station":"Victoria","walk":3,"lat":51.497615,"lng":-0.14553,"hours":[[12.0,18.25],[12.0,18.25],[12.0,18.25],[12.0,18.25],[12.0,18.25],[12.0,18.25],[12.0,18.25]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 12:00-18:15","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.thegoring.com/food-drink/afternoon-tea-in-the-veranda/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"Traditional \u00a375, with Bollinger \u00a385, with Bollinger 2014 La Grande Annee \u00a3105. Saturdays also in the Dining Room. No sportswear, trainers, shorts or ripped jeans.","website":"https://www.thegoring.com/food-drink/afternoon-tea-in-the-veranda/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["50-to-80","historic","hotel"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Tea over the hotel's own lawn, a few streets from Buckingham Palace, with a Bollinger if you want one.","note":"The Goring opened in 1910 and has been serving afternoon tea for the whole of that time. It happens in the Veranda, which looks out over the hotel's own lawn and tree-lined borders - a private garden of a size that has no business existing this close to Victoria - and on Saturdays in the Dining Room as well, in velvet chairs under Fromental wallpaper.\n\nFinger sandwiches, warm scones and cakes, and the current menu is built around the clothes Elizabeth II wore, each sweet dressed for the occasion and the whole thing finished with the cocktail she was fondest of. There is a mocktail in place of it, a Bollinger version of the tea, and a version with the 2014 La Grande Annee for anyone having a very good year.\n\nThey ask you to dress for it, and say so plainly: no sportswear, trainers, shorts or ripped jeans.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Veranda at The Goring, Beeston Place, SW1W 0JW, London","in_area":{"slug":"westminster","name":"Westminster"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Badiani Victoria","s":"badiani-victoria","c":"desserts","cn":"Desserts & Gelato","m":160},{"n":"Royal Mews","s":"royal-mews","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":169},{"n":"Market Halls Victoria","s":"market-halls-victoria","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":178}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":1102},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":1286},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":1662},{"s":"the-gallery-at-the-savoy","m":2221}]}]}