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This is my very first holiday post in what I hope will be many more to come! I've been bitten by the travel bug and it's got me bad. Where I once used to pillage the internet for info on restaurants, it's now for cheap flights to anywhere within a 3 hour radius of London.
Matcha is produced from green tea which is grown in the shade, hand-picked, dried, de-stemmed, and then stone-ground into a fine, emerald powder.
Crisp dark chocolate shells are filled with a reduction of lemon and white chocolate, with flecks of lemon zest throughout, or try the salted caramel squares.
‘Macaron’ tea from the ‘Héritage Gourmand’ tea range at Mariage Freres is housed in a silver canister with a neon pink label, that is embossed with more silver detailing.
Created by sisters Laura and Steph, the tea sets from Bombay Duck feature designs of whimsy and exotic imaginings, of romantic colours and carefree patterns.
The ‘Gourmet Collection’ from Newby features loose leaf teas contained in jewel-toned tea caddies, which are beautifully pressed into undulating lattices.
It's been a very good evening with some decent food at the buzzing Tanner and Co, that I would recommend for dinner with friends who actually turn up ;)
The What Katie Ate cookbook has fast become one of my favourite and most trusted cookbooks on the shelf.
Afternoon tea can be had for £58 pp with additional glass of Laurent-Perrier. This is one I will be thinking of ardently, and returning to imminently.
