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It cannot accommodate dietary requirements of any kind, which it says plainly and which is unusual enough to check before booking.","website":"https://www.maybourne.com/en/hotels/the-berkeley/restaurants-bars/the-berkeley-cafe","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["50-to-80","hotel"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Cedric Grolet's pastry put through a British afternoon tea, in a pale cafe rather than a tea room.","note":"Gou\u0302tea is a joke that works in two languages: gou\u0302ter is the French habit of something sweet in the afternoon, and this is that crossed with the British ritual. It is the work of Cedric Grolet, the pa\u0302tissier whose trompe-l'oeil fruit made him the most photographed pastry chef alive, and it runs in the Berkeley Cafe - Re\u0301mi Tessier's pale, curved room - or at the chef's counter, rather than in a panelled lounge.\n\nFinger sandwiches and warm scones arrive as they would anywhere; what is different is the sweet half, which is Grolet's. The hotel is blunt that it can accommodate no dietary requirements at all, because of what goes into them.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"Gou\u0302tea at The Berkeley, The Berkeley, Wilton Place, SW1X 7RL, London","in_area":{"slug":"belgravia","name":"Belgravia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Wilton Row","s":"wilton-row","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":162},{"n":"Harvey Nichols","s":"harvey-nichols","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":256},{"n":"Romanian Cultural Institute","s":"romanian-cultural-institute","c":"international-culture","cn":"International Culture","m":260}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-withdrawing-room-at-the-lanesborough","m":241},{"s":"the-veranda-at-the-goring","m":894},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":985},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":1158},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":1201},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":1232}]},{"slug":"the-crystal-moon-lounge-at-corinthia","name":"The Crystal Moon Lounge at Corinthia","area":"Whitehall","address":"Whitehall Place, SW1A 2BD","station":"Charing Cross","walk":1,"lat":51.506532,"lng":-0.123897,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":"https://www.corinthia.com/london/restaurants-bars/crystal-moon-lounge/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"From \u00a375 Monday to Thursday and from \u00a385 Friday to Sunday; champagne is extra.","website":"https://www.corinthia.com/london/restaurants-bars/crystal-moon-lounge/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["50-to-80","hotel"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Under a Baccarat chandelier of a thousand crystals, in a hotel built for the Victorian civil service.","note":"The Corinthia occupies a building of 1885 put up as the Metropole, one of the grand railway hotels, and taken over during both wars by the government - it was the Ministry of Defence's until 2007, and the room this lounge sits in was offices for longer than it has been a hotel.\n\nThe lounge is named for the Baccarat chandelier over it, made of about a thousand crystals, and the tea underneath it is the traditional form done carefully rather than reinvented. The price splits on the day of the week, which is worth knowing before booking a Saturday.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Crystal Moon Lounge at Corinthia, Whitehall Place, SW1A 2BD, London","in_area":{"slug":"westminster","name":"Westminster"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Heine's lodging, Craven Street","s":"heinrich-heine","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":108},{"n":"Bazalgette memorial","s":"bazalgette-memorial","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":117},{"n":"Scotland Place and Horse Guards Avenue","s":"scotland-place","c":"harry-potter","cn":"Harry Potter","m":130}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-gallery-at-the-savoy","m":463},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":1005},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":1181},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":1215},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":1317},{"s":"the-gallery-at-sketch","m":1399}]},{"slug":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","name":"The Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon","area":"St James's","address":"181-184 Piccadilly, W1A 1ER","station":"Piccadilly Circus","walk":4,"lat":51.508236,"lng":-0.13817,"hours":[[11.5,20.0],[11.5,20.0],[11.5,20.0],[11.5,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.5,18.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 11:30-20:00; Fr-Sa 11:00-20:00; Su 11:30-18:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://support.fortnumandmason.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360002781997-How-much-is-Afternoon-Tea-per-person-at-the-Diamond-Jubilee-Tea-Salon","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"Classic tea from \u00a384, savoury \u00a385, high tea \u00a386, children \u00a360.","website":"https://www.fortnumandmason.com/diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["children","over-80","store"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Fortnum's own tea salon on the fourth floor, opened by the Queen on the first joint engagement she made with her two daughters-in-law.","note":"Fortnum & Mason has sold tea since 1707 and this is the room where it pours it: a salon on the fourth floor in the shop's own eau-de-nil green, reached by the staircase that winds up through the middle of the building.\n\nIt opened on 1 March 2012, named for the Diamond Jubilee, and Elizabeth II came to open it herself with the then Duchess of Cornwall and the then Duchess of Cambridge - the first official engagement the three of them made together, and the reason the room has the name it does.\n\nThe classic tea is sandwiches, scones and cakes with the run of Fortnum's own teas, of which there are a great many and the staff will steer you; a savoury version and a high tea with a hot course sit above it.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, 181-184 Piccadilly, W1A 1ER, London","in_area":{"slug":"st-jamess","name":"St James's"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Hatchards","s":"hatchards","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":27},{"n":"Dickinson","s":"dickinson","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":37},{"n":"The Weiss Gallery","s":"the-weiss-gallery","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":37}],"near_same":[{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":211},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":253},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":315},{"s":"the-gallery-at-sketch","m":550},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":803},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":816}]},{"slug":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","name":"The Drawing Room at Brown's Hotel","area":"Mayfair","address":"33 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BP","station":"Green Park","walk":4,"lat":51.509278,"lng":-0.142408,"hours":[[12.0,18.5],[12.0,18.5],[12.0,18.5],[12.0,18.5],[12.0,18.5],[12.0,18.5],[12.0,18.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 12:00-18:30","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/brown-s-hotel/dining/the-drawing-room/afternoon-tea/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"About \u00a380. Live music through the afternoon.","website":"https://www.roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/brown-s-hotel/dining/the-drawing-room/afternoon-tea/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["50-to-80","historic","hotel"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"A panelled Mayfair drawing room with a fire, a pianist and a cake trolley, in the hotel Kipling wrote in.","note":"Brown's opened in 1837 and was London's first grand hotel, put together out of a row of Mayfair houses by a former valet to Lord Byron. The Drawing Room is the front of it: panelling, fireplaces, deep chairs, and live music through the afternoon, which is unusual enough that people book for it rather than around it.\n\nThirty-odd teas including the house blend, finger sandwiches, plain and fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry preserve, and cakes brought round on a trolley so the last course is chosen at the table.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Drawing Room at Brown's Hotel, 33 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BP, London","in_area":{"slug":"mayfair","name":"Mayfair"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"David Zwirner","s":"david-zwirner","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":42},{"n":"Faraday Museum","s":"faraday-museum","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":47},{"n":"E.B. Meyrowitz","s":"e-b-meyrowitz","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":65}],"near_same":[{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":233},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":241},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":315},{"s":"the-gallery-at-sketch","m":389},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":505},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":505}]},{"slug":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","name":"The Foyer & Reading Room at Claridge's","area":"Mayfair","address":"Claridge's, Brook Street, W1K 4HR","station":"Bond Street","walk":1,"lat":51.512519,"lng":-0.147526,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":"https://www.maybourne.com/en/hotels/claridges/restaurants-bars/afternoon-tea","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"Traditional \u00a395, with champagne \u00a3110, with rose champagne \u00a3125. 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":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":306},{"s":"the-gallery-at-sketch","m":418},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":505},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":727},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":731},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":803}]},{"slug":"the-gallery-at-sketch","name":"The Gallery at Sketch","area":"Mayfair","address":"9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG","station":"Oxford Circus","walk":4,"lat":51.512734,"lng":-0.141486,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":"https://sketch.london/the-gallery/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"From about \u00a380. A 12.5% service charge is added.","website":"https://sketch.london/the-gallery/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["50-to-80","hotel"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"Tea in a pink room hung with 239 David Shrigley drawings, served on crockery he drew too.","note":"The Gallery is the room that made Sketch the most photographed dining room in London: walls in a particular shade of pink, velvet banquettes, and two hundred and thirty-nine drawings by David Shrigley hung frame to frame from floor to ceiling. The crockery is his as well, so the cup you drink from has a Shrigley line on it.\n\nThe tea is properly done underneath the decor - sandwiches, scones, patisserie - but nobody comes only for that. The lavatories are in egg-shaped pods up the stairs and are their own attraction.\n\nThis is a Georgian townhouse on Conduit Street with four different rooms in it; the Gallery is the one that does tea.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Gallery at Sketch, 9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG, London","in_area":{"slug":"mayfair","name":"Mayfair"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Pilar Corrias","s":"pilar-corrias","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":68},{"n":"Hauser & Wirth","s":"hauser-wirth","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":89},{"n":"Hamleys","s":"hamleys","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":108}],"near_same":[{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":389},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":418},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":550},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":595},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":616},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":633}]},{"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-crystal-moon-lounge-at-corinthia","m":463},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":1240},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":1444},{"s":"the-gallery-at-sketch","m":1481},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":1484},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":1519}]},{"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":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":42},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":241},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":253},{"s":"the-gallery-at-sketch","m":616},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":650},{"s":"the-foyer-reading-room-at-claridges","m":727}]},{"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-withdrawing-room-at-the-lanesborough","m":720},{"s":"goutea-at-the-berkeley","m":894},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":1102},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":1133},{"s":"the-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon","m":1286},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":1314}]},{"slug":"the-withdrawing-room-at-the-lanesborough","name":"The Withdrawing Room at The Lanesborough","area":"Belgravia","address":"Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7TA","station":"Hyde Park Corner","walk":2,"lat":51.502335,"lng":-0.152653,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":"https://www.oetkerhotels.com/hotels/the-lanesborough/restaurants-bars/the-withdrawing-room/","hours_checked":"2026-09-17","hours_extra":"From \u00a392, \u00a3102 with a cocktail, \u00a3110 or \u00a3115 with Laurent-Perrier. The theme changes; it has been running a Bridgerton tea.","website":"https://www.oetkerhotels.com/hotels/the-lanesborough/restaurants-bars/the-withdrawing-room/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":["booking"],"osm":null,"types":["historic","hotel","over-80"],"runs":null,"scope":null,"verdict":"A Regency room at Hyde Park Corner, in a building that spent a century and a half as a hospital.","note":"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.\n\nThe 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.","note_links":null,"maps_q":"The Withdrawing Room at The Lanesborough, Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7TA, London","in_area":{"slug":"belgravia","name":"Belgravia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Royal Artillery Memorial","s":"royal-artillery-memorial","c":"monuments","cn":"Monuments & Ruins","m":54},{"n":"Wellington Arch","s":"wellington-arch","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":128},{"n":"Apsley House","s":"apsley-house","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":143}],"near_same":[{"s":"goutea-at-the-berkeley","m":241},{"s":"the-veranda-at-the-goring","m":720},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-connaught","m":887},{"s":"the-palm-court-at-the-ritz","m":946},{"s":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley","m":988},{"s":"the-drawing-room-at-browns-hotel","m":1048}]}]}