A Kids Afternoon Tea at The Sir Stamford
“So Lorraine, how has life been? Busy? ” Five year old Laura says to me earnestly, holding a wine glass full of water with both hands around the bowl to steady it. She looks at me her legs crossed wearing a pearl patterned knitted dress and diamanté bow in her hair. She along with her sisters Olivia and Eloise and their mum Liss are joining me at the Sir Stamford’s kids afternoon tea. When I was offered the chance to try the kid’s afternoon tea, I instantly thought of these three adorable sisters (who are very polite and well behaved too). In fact, rumour has it that they’ve been talking about nothing else but this ever since they found out. The kid’s tea is $32 per child and the traditional adult’s tea is $44 per adult.
Laura in a most appropriate afternoon tea dress
“This place is fancy!!” Eloise says giggling. “Yesss” Olivia says grinning widely looking around, eyes wide like saucers taking it all in. We sit down at our table and the girls are given a wine glass of ice water which they carefully negotiate towards their mouths (no spillage-well done!) and wait for their food. I adjust the gerberas that they’ve handed me, each one a different colour.
“How long till the food comes?”
“How many seconds?”
“Is it 17 seconds?”
The questions come from each girl as they prepare the food. What to a hungry child is eternity is in fact about 10 minutes in wait.
The Kid’s High Tea stand
I remember my childhood by the food that I ate. When I was six years old I visited Singapore where I tried sarsaparilla for the first time. I remember the first time I ate oysters and spat them out and the first time I ate a cream and jam sponge cake and requested it every year afterwards for my birthday. So as this is the girls first high tea I am aware of how exciting it must be. When the two three tier stands arrive, one for adults and one for the children, there is much excitement, much like a spaceship landing on the table.
The favourite layer-forget sandwiches, the sweets are where it is at! From front: Chocolate & Coconut Crackle, Fairy Cupcake with Strawberry & Sprinkles and Banana & Berry Split
Eloise as big sister makes fast work of the chocolate and coconut crackle
Laura loves her cupcake
The first thing they all grab for is the banana and berry split cups of which are eaten in about four mouthfuls with much relish and giggles. I didn’t try the sweets from the kids high tea, the girls made fast work of that but the chocolate and coconut crackles were deemed nice but also too hard by little Olivia who couldn’t finish hers. Eloise on the other hand loved them and Laura ate her studiously. The fairy cupcakes with strawberries and sprinkles were of course a crowd pleaser and disappeared quickly while the sandwiches divided them.
From front left: Egg & chive, poached chicken & parsley and ham and cheese sandwiches
Olivia and her banana and berry split
Well intentioned older sister Eloise takes a lettuce leaf and nibbles on it but there is some prompting needed by mummy Liss to eat the sandwiches when there are so many sweets on offer. The girls seem to go for the ham and cheese sandwiches whilst the egg and the chicken is left behind. I tried both the egg and the chicken and they’re good particularly the chicken which is flavoursome and moreish.
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