Afternoon tea Sunday 18 May 2014
A bevy of lovely ladies graced the Chez Shamwari table today for a private booking. To match the occasion, today’s menu presented a host of different flavours, colours, textures and even cuisines....
View ArticleAfternoon Tea Sunday 29 June 2014
What’s a birthday without cake? Yes, indeed. So what could be more apt than taking afternoon tea to mark such an occasion? I was privileged to be asked by a cake loving and like-minded friend to...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea – Sunday 18 October 2014
How time seems to fly because no sooner has the teapot been put away from the last occasion, it’s time to put the kettle on again for some more afternoon tea delights. Today’s guests were all ‘first...
View ArticleChristmas Afternoon Tea Sunday 14 December 2014
I always look forward to designing my Christmas afternoon tea menu each year. There are so many wonderful flavours and delicious food to match the festivity of the season. While there were the usual...
View ArticleLunch – Sunday 22 February 2015
Ah, the institution that is Sunday lunch. With winter hanging on outside, the inclement weather battering the windows, it really was most fitting to be enjoying the warming comforts of good food and...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea Saturday 7 March 2015
I have a very small select group of ‘regulars’ amongst my guests and today’s visitors were some of those lucky ones – not because people don’t want to come back I hasten to add. On the contrary. The...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea – Sunday 29 November 2015
With autumn in full swing and the festive Christmas season knocking on the door, it was to this seasonal ‘palette’ of flavours and treats I turned to for inspiration when designing this menu. I also...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea 10 January 2016
There could be no better way to start the year off than with an afternoon tea. A private booking no less where ‘the fat man in a red suit’ had adorned the relevant Christmas trees with gifts of an...
View ArticleXmas Afternoon Tea – 11 December 2016
Christmas is certainly one of my favourite times of the year and putting on a festive themed afternoon tea is always great fun. Items on the menu this year featured interpretations of some of the more...
View ArticleChristmas Afternoon Tea 10 December 2017
Sandwiches Walnut & Roquefort biscuits Turkey, chestnut & cranberry sausage rolls Designing the verrine! Chocolate, cinnamon and mulled wine verrine Mince pies Xmas cake
View ArticleAfternoon Tea at the Saltaire Festival September 2018
Sandwiches and savouries Ginger snap & tropical entremets Blackberry macarons and buttermilk scones Tropical entremets
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