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2021-11-11
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A very poor facsimile of an afternoon teaAfter weeks of anticipation, I am sorry to report that afternoon tea at The Drawing Room of the St. Regis was a disappointment. Hotel The hotel and restaurant are beautiful The brand perfume piped throughout the hotel is dilutive to the dining experience Tea Tea came in huge pots with a teabag inside. No loose leaf tea, no strainer. There is no choice but to let the tea steep to death until it's poured out. There are plenty of high quality teabags on the
After weeks of anticipation, I am sorry to report that afternoon tea at The Drawing Room of the St. Regis was a disappointment.
Hotel
The hotel and restaurant are beautiful
The brand perfume piped throughout the hotel is dilutive to the dining experience
Tea
Tea came in huge pots with a teabag inside. No loose leaf tea, no strainer. There is no choice but to let the tea steep to death until it's poured out.
There are plenty of high quality teabags on the market. BUT not here. The tea quality was terrible. They tasted variously: Ashen. Peaty. Artificial. Or just plain weak. (We tried Darjeeling, Puer, Jasmine, and Moroccan mint).
Sidebar: The tea is branded as Plantation by Teakha. But that can't be right. Visited Teakha plenty of times, the quality has always been consistently high. Have they stored it badly and let it all rot?
Savoury and sweets
Al the cakes and savoury snacks looked beautiful in the trolleys. Wheeling them up for selection was a lovely touch.
Quality ranged from ok to poor. The lobster avocado in a tin was nice. Everything else was too dry, too hard, or too bland.
Scones
The baked scones were warm and delicious, crumbly texture was just right.
The clotted cream was in a sorry state. A tiny (half tablespoon) portion, dry and crumbly in texture (not dense and creamy), with very weak dairy flavour. The whole point of scones is loading it with clotted cream, so... this is a fail.
Service was ok, not great. We had to ask for everything, from water for tea, to moving onto the next course after finishing the previous.
In a nutshell:
Looks lovely. Taste, not so much. Really NOT OK at $468 for one and $788 for two.
Looking at another review dated Sep 2021, the tea leaves and clotted cream then looked high quality, so not sure why they have slipped so far, so fast?
九月見到好好地,兩個月內質素跌千丈，搞乜？
Fix it please. And fix it fast.
张贴
