When you select your tickets, please enter the date and time when you wish to enjoy your afternoon tea. Once you have made your booking we will check to see if the time you have requested is available and send you an email confirming your booking. Please print the confirmation email and bring it with you when visit.
Please note:
Bookings can only be made up until 31st March 2012.
The Fortnum & Mason St James’s Restaurant has closed for full afternoon tea due for refurbishment until April 2012. Guests booked for afternoon tea during this period will take afternoon tea in the Gallery Restaurant, on the mezzanine level overlooking the ground floor Food Hall.
There is a slight change to the afternoon tea menu for this period:
A selection of four finger sandwiches
Scones with Clotted Cream & Strawberry Jam
Chocolate or vanilla cupcake
Madeleine cake or similar
Pot of Classic Tea
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Afternoon tea was invented by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford (1783-1857), one of Queen Victoria's ladies-in-waiting. In her day, the upper crust ate a huge breakfast, little lunch, and a very late dinner. Every afternoon, the duchess experienced a "sinking feeling." One afternoon she instructed her servants to serve tea and little cakes in her boudoir.
The experience was so delightful that Anna repeated it every afternoon thereafter. Soon others followed the Duchess' lead, and in just a few decades the custom of "taking tea" in the afternoon had become well established. At first the practice was limited to the upper classes, but it eventually became so popular that tea shops and tea-rooms began opening for the enjoyment of the general public.
Grosvenor House:
Anna’s Afternoon Tea gives you the full experience including a selection of fine teas, finger sandwiches, buttermilk scones with Devonshire clotted cream and Cornish strawberry jam, selection of cream puffs and French pastries.
The historic Grosvenor House Hotel has been frequented by royalty, celebrities and business leaders since opening in 1929 and continues its time-honoured tradition for exceptional style and service. Set in Mayfair this ‘Grande Dame’ of Park Lane offers a quintessentially British experience. The Park Room and Library is designed to reflect the style, comfort and charm of a living room in an English stately home.
Fortnum & Mason:
Fine selection of teas, luxury and traditional sandwiches, pastries and of course a selection of scones with clotted cream and preserves. Full afternoon tea is served in the Gallery restaurant on the Ground Floor Mezzanine.
There is no better place to enjoy this wonderful English tradition than at the world renowned department store Fortnum & Mason. The store was founded in 1707 by William Fortnum, one of Queen Anne’s footmen. During the 1700’s Fortnum and Mason made a name for itself by selling rare teas and spices, not available anywhere else, much like today
Grosvenor House Hotel (86-90 Park Lane, Mayfair, London, W1K 7AW):
- Monday – Sunday 14:00–18:00
Fortnum and Mason (181 Piccadilly, London W1A 1ER):
- Monday – Saturday 15:00 - 19:00
- Sunday 15:00 - 17:00