Afternoon Tea Review: London Landmarks, Town House, South Kensington + A Tantalising Tour of Tower Bridge

Hello again, folks. Today we are indulging the London Landmarks tea at the Town House, Kensington. As the name suggests, this is a themed tea commemorating the landmarks that make up London’s Iconic skyline. Actually, they don’t commemorate them exactly. If we were to accurately portray them as they have been the last few years Big Ben would be surrounded by Twiglets representing scaffolding and the phone box would be decorated with cards of naked women with a river of pee dribbling from the bottom. Personally, I’d have preferred something a bit more obscure. The Whitgift Center, Croydon, carved out of marzipan, perhaps. The Vagina Museum, Camden, sculpted from an avocado with the pit removed etc. But that would attract a pretty niche market of one, so here we are, eating a praline Gerkin and living it large

Oh, You Little Teas! Waterside Café review – Little Venice

Greetings, folks. Coming to you all the way from Venice. Little Venice, that is. Why is it called that? Well, according to legend a number of local estate agents (boooooo!) started using the name after WWII when it appeared in an obscure detective novel to describe a house overlooking the canal. Clearly author Margery Allingham and the estate agents (hiss!) never actually visited Venice or indeed Holland, as if they had they might have noticed that the area looks nothing like the former Republic and everything like Amsterdam, a city famous for not having Venice in it.

Afternoon Tea review: The Oxo Tower Restaurant, Bar & Brasserie – Southbank

Greetings, folks. It’s time to start spending money again. As this is the first afternoon tea taken since February 2020 – a carefree time when you didn’t have to evacuate a building whenever someone sneezed – I’ve chosen to visit the OXO Tower Restaurant, hoping to ease back onto the high-octane world of eating small things and pretending they constitute a meal