Afternoon Tea at Thomas' Burberry

About a week and a half ago me and my best friend Amy did a two-night trip to London, it’s something we do as a yearly thing going away together for a few nights. When deciding what, we wanted to do I was looking at the Thomas’ café in the Burberry store on Regent Street and saw on their menu that they did afternoon tea. I have never done afternoon tea and I think Amy had only done it once previously, so I pitched the idea to her and she agreed. Burberry is also one of my favourite brands I love their My Burberry perfumes, so to do their afternoon tea was a dream come true. We made the reservation about two weeks in advance without any problems and you tell them you want the tea when you arrive.

Thomas’ café it located on the Second Floor of the Burberry store, once we went down we were greeted by a waiter so confirmed the reservation and we were then taken up some very beautifully decorated stairs to our table which was very well presented next to a big window to the left and the bar to the right which you could sit around if you wanted to. It was a very simple but chic room, there was Burberry pieces in glass cubes on display which added enough decoration.

 

We were then presented with a beautiful drinks menu in a book style, once again this was just very simple and had the gold Thomas’ logo on it. Then we got presented with the menu which was on a single sheet of paper, where it explained to us that the tea consisted of sandwiches, cake and a choice from the Aga. However, neither me nor Amy drink tea so for an extra charge we swapped the tea for some homemade lemonade. The waitress also asked if we would like some water which we did. I cannot fault how quickly they bought everything out to us we weren’t waiting long at all and we could see our lemonades being made in front of us.

The food was put on a little two-tiered glass stand with the cakes on the top and the sandwiches on the bottom, then the choice from the Aga was bought out separately. From the Aga, we choose the crumpets which came with their own little pot of Thomas’ Strawberry Jam. The food was consisted of five cakes and 3 different sandwiches of which there was two slices and two crumpets.

Cake

Raspberry Tart

Berry Dome

Lemon Cake

Millionaire Shortbread

French Fancy

Sandwiches

Cucumber on White Bread

Salmon on Granary Bread

Egg on Brown Bread

 From this selection, I had the Salmon sandwiches, the French fancy, the Raspberry Tart which I took the raspberries off and a buttered crumpet. I enjoyed what I had it was nice, apart from the icing on the French Fancy sticking to the plate but that’s a minor issue. Amy had everything else apart from the Egg sandwich which neither of us are fans of. Our favourite thing had to be the crumpets, they were amazing I’d go back and eat them again and again. The best part is that Amy got to keep the jar of Thomas’ strawberry jam for nothing which is a nice little touch to the service.

 All in all, this was priced at £32 for the tea, £6 for the two homemade lemonades and £5 for the bottle of water we shared (plus a 12.5% discretionary service charge). We ended up paying £24 each roughly and we were in there for about 45 minutes to an hour because the service was just that quick. We were happy with the tea and we are glad we done it and can’t really fault it. I would recommend it doing it if you haven’t tried it and you are a big fan of the Burberry brand. I love the fact that this was my first afternoon tea experience. We will definitely be going back for more of the crumpets, we cannot get enough of them.

If you are interested in booking afternoon tea or just a meal at Thomas’ Burberry, then you can book here.

Until next time

Stacey x