{"id":1873,"date":"2014-10-26T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2014-11-04T21:07:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T21:07:48","slug":"afternoon-tea-at-coombe-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveeatsleepfood.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Tea at Coombe Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been to Coombe Abbey before, it was such a beautiful day when we went and everyone was buzzing from the lovely weather.<\/p>\n

There is a huge park which most people generally go for, I went for a look inside the house and went around the grounds, to be honest after visiting a few houses I tend to get confused with which house is which. I do remember it being quite dark and medieval. Coombe Abbey was founded as a monastery in the 12th century.<\/p>\n

I was really excited about going for afternoon, the booking has to be made in advance and this was the only Sunday that was free, although a little inconvenient as it was the weekend of Diwali and having eaten a lot I did wish another weekend was free but I just had to deal with it and have a fat weekend!<\/p>\n

At the time of the booking I told them my dietary requirements of being a Pesicatarian and were they able to cater for us? they had to check and said yes they would. We arrived for the tea at 12.30, I didn\u2019t have any breakfast as I wasn’t very hungry and you know how filling these Tea\u2019s can be.<\/p>\n

The orangery where the afternoon tea was held was really peaceful and calming, although it was a cold day it felt warm in there. It was a lovely area and I really like the ambience. They had some period features which worked well with the rest of the room. I love the fan and the gold details against the muted green\/grey coloured walls. There was also this private area that was guarded with curtains it reminded me of somewhere the queen would sit!<\/p>\n

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We were seated (not where the queen would but it would do!) and where asked which drinks we wanted my mum and I, both ordered a coffee, although we did want a cappuccino and latte these were both not included in the afternoon tea and were extra, we didn\u2019t think that was really fair. We just ended going for a normal coffee. I went for the decaffeinated coffee which I found was absolutely horrible, it came in a cafeteria and I waited a few minutes before I plunged the top down. I don\u2019t think I have ever had worse coffee before!<\/p>\n

I did wonder if they had remembered my dietary requirements. I mentioned this to the waitress and she said \u2018could you please remind of this again\u2019. For me this was a bad start, but this has happened to me a number of times, so don\u2019t always expect your dietary requirements to be held.<\/p>\n

We were getting quite hungry and realised that it was after 1pm and the food still hadn’t arrived. I have been to a few afternoon tea\u2019s and it\u2019s never arrived that late before, the food is usually made and need to be plated up.<\/p>\n

When cake stand arrived, they replaced the trifle with the same piece of cake. I did notice that there was the rocky road chocolate mousse still on the plate which did look amazing as you can see from the photos but I know rocky road has marshmallows so that was a no no for me. I was shocked the chef didn\u2019t know this! they brought the stand back with an empty space and I asked will this be replaced with something else? they said the chef can give you more sandwiches, which they did.<\/p>\n

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The sandwiches were OK, I liked the vegetarian one, the salmon needed more flavour. The cheese sandwich lacked in flavour also. I really liked the hummus wafer it was really different and it caught my eye. <\/p>\n

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As for the sweet items, I only tried the scone at Coombe Abbey as I only had room for that as we had extra sandwiches I found the scone was a bit dry. Later on I tried a bit of the coffee and walnut cake which was not that amazing but I did like the coffee icing. The apple tart could have done with slightly more flavour too.<\/p>\n

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Overall I don’t think we had the best afternoon tea experience. I wasn’t sure if it was because they didn’t catered for our diet. However the service and time for the food to come out was quite delayed too. I wouldn’t recommend it though.<\/p>\n

Overall:<\/strong> \u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> Coombe Abbey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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