High Tea experiences in Sydney
It is an English tradition amoung the high society to have afternoon tea with arrays of delicate cakes, scones and sweet breads. This, is now known as high tea, and many of Sydney's top cafes and coffee lounges now offer great high tea package to suit all tastes and budgets, a good way to sample some of the best cakes and pastries, and is a leisurely way to spend a lazy afternoon.
Some of the first of coffee lounges to offer the high tea experience, the Tea Room, at the top of the famous Queen Victoria Building, has always been a classy venue for receptions or high end dining. It is meant to be a prestige venue, not just for high tea, but for events such as weddings or say the university alumni association conferences and business breakfasts.
Booking essential.
It's no surprise the high tea package is one of the most popular in town with this award winning luxury hotel. Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. French influenced menu, whose chef Mark Stone, is currently the only chef in Australia to have accredited French haute cuisine brand, Lenôtre certification.
It means the cakes and the pastries are certainly not to be missed, perfect combination with a pot of freshly brewed fine tea.
A beautiful boutique hotel at the foot of the harbour bridge, this is a hidden secret in the business of high tea. 'Tea Master' Tjok Gde Kerthyasa's creation of 20 different blends of tea and the menu to match is sure to put a smile on every connoisseur's face.
The Sheraton offers two types of high tea menus. You can either choose the traditional set with scones, jam breads, cakes and biscuits, or try the contemorary menu with a little something differet like lemon grass and lychee jelly. For those with a bigger ambition can also choose to have their high tea buffet style, with unlimited serves of both menus. Packages are served with bottomless coffee and tea which means you are welcome to stay for as long as you like.