The Victoria Room for High Tea, Darlinghurst
Karma is a funny thing. I firmly believe in karma, good deeds garner good and bad deeds garner bad and I for one am constantly shocked when I meet nasty people and I often worry about their karma. Thankfully those people are few and far between and I make sure I concentrate on the many lovely people I meet. When I first met my dining companion Trissa, it was at the Adriano Zumbo Charity cake auction. She had just paid over $100 for one slice of cake and I was standing by the doorway when she came in and asked for a box to put it in. I said congratulations to her and she smiled and said thanks and then asked if I would like to try some.
Trissa from the Zumbo cake auction
She was of course a virtual stranger to me so I was surprised that not only that she offered some to me as she didn’t know me but also because she had just paid over $100 for that slab of precious 6 layer mousse cake and was yet so giving of her precious bounty. I declined her kind offer thinking that she must have been mistaking me for someone else but perhaps my eyes betrayed me and she insisted several times that I try it as her husband doesn’t have a sweet tooth and she bought it mainly as it was for charity. I succumbed and tried a slice of heaven.
I took a photo of her for my story and gave her my card. She knew of NQN and she emailed me and we corresponded through email and I found out that she had a blog of her own. We became friends after that and had a forensic dinner party and other adventures but I always felt like I should give her something back in return for her initial generosity at the cake auction. So when I was offered a Majestic High Tea for Two at The Victoria Room and I knew that Trissa had never been to High Tea before, I invited her along. Call it karma through cake.
I’m meeting Trissa there and as I walk up the stairs having dodged the rain outside and clutching my umbrella. “Would you like me to take your umbrella?” enquires the polite woman showing me to my table. “Errr” I say clutching my precious Wicked Umbrella shaped in a witches hat. “Ahhh it’s a special umbrella” she says knowingly. I told you, people that understand my kind. We’re seated at the very sexy, elegant room. It’s dark – very dark actually and gives you the impression it’s late at night. There are beaded hangings, fringing and it’s very much like the Singapore Raffles hotel but with Victorian table and chairs and embroidered Louis XIV chairs. There are girls everywhere, dressed up, wearing glittery headpieces (my hat feels less conspicuous here), dark nail polish heels and little clutches. You can imagine I felt quite at home here.
Piper-Heisieck from Majestic High Tea $55 per person
Tables are a little squishy so we have to do a bit of expert manoeuvring to get seated and we’re shown our menu. The Majestic High Tea comes with a glass of Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut NV Champagne which is sparkling but as both of us are on restricted licenses, we mournfully only take a sip or two of the delicious bubbly.
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