{"id":5954,"date":"2015-02-08T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2024-06-01T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:16:47","slug":"afternoon-tea-sofitel-rose-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/afternoon-tea-sofitel-rose-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"988\" class=\" wp-image-5958 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-Chiara.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\">I&#8217;m starting\u00a0to run out of ways to describe a London afternoon tea. Seriously, does anyone have a <em>food writing for dummies<\/em> book they can recommend? After so many tea blog posts last year, I decided to wait a bit before sharing my afternoon tea with Chiara at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofitelstjames.com\/en\/the-rose-lounge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rose Lounge<\/a>. True, all the photos with Christmas decorations now don&#8217;t really make sense anymore. But hey, see all these rose petals? And our table was in the shape of a heart (which I totally missed by the way). It could just as well be a Valentine&#8217;s theme, right? So let&#8217;s just go with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1485\" height=\"991\" class=\" wp-image-5956 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-2.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"988\" class=\" wp-image-5955 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-Menu.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\"><br><a href=\"http:\/\/machedavvero.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chiara<\/a> had been invited by The Rose Lounge at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofitelstjames.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sofitel St James hotel<\/a> to try their afternoon tea, and she asked me to join her. Forget my complaint earlier about a food writers block, I will never say no to afternoon tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming in from the dark, cold, wintry weather outside, we were seated in front of the fireplace. The whole room looked warm and cosy with comfortable chairs and sofas, <del>and Christmas decorations all around<\/del>&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"987\" class=\" wp-image-5966 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-champagne.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\"><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"988\" class=\" wp-image-5963 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-3.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\">We started with a lovely pink champagne cocktail (I prefer bubbles over&nbsp;milk with my tea) and then they brought us the sandwiches and scones. Traditional, but as you would expect from a place like this, very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"988\" class=\" wp-image-5961 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-Sandwich.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"986\" class=\" wp-image-5968 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-cake.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\">As you can see in the pictures above, we were served sandwiches and scones, but what was missing were the pastries. As usual I&#8217;ll eat what is put in front of me, so I was already getting quite full when they invited us to come have a look at the selection of miniature French pastries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"986\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5970 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-cakes.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"986\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5972 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-5954-post\/Rose-Lounge-Sofitel-London-Afternoon-Tea-4.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon Tea at the Rose Lounge - Sofitel St James London\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were looking so good! And not so miniature to be honest. It was hard to choose, but we both picked two&#8230;and had to give up after a few bites. I&#8217;m afraid that otherwise I would have fallen asleep in that chair with the harpist playing <del>Christmas songs<\/del>&#8230;romantic love songs in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But being able to choose your own pastries was a nice twist and made it different from other traditional afternoon teas. I definitely enjoyed the whole experience and would love to go again&#8230;As soon as I&#8217;ve finished my <em>food writing for dummies<\/em> book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to run out of ways to describe a London afternoon tea. Seriously, does anyone have a food writing for dummies book they can recommend? After so many tea blog posts last year, I decided to wait a bit before sharing my afternoon tea with Chiara at The Rose Lounge. True, all the photos with Christmas decorations now don&#8217;t really make sense anymore. But hey, see all these rose petals? And our table was in the shape of a heart (which I totally missed by the way). It could just as well be a Valentine&#8217;s theme, right? So let&#8217;s just go with that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,27,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-trip","category-europe","category-food-drink","category-london","category-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}