The Orangery
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Saturday, June 21
We headed to Kensington Palace and its Orangery for high tea. The Orangery is a beautiful, rather small building with a soaring ceiling that was originally used by the royals to grow orange trees. Now anyone can walk in and order tea and cakes. The whole area is airy and lovely and each table had its own mini orange tree complete with tiny oranges.
We headed to Kensington Palace and its Orangery for high tea. The Orangery is a beautiful, rather small building with a soaring ceiling that was originally used by the royals to grow orange trees. Now anyone can walk in and order tea and cakes. The whole area is airy and lovely and each table had its own mini orange tree complete with tiny oranges.
Being rather hungry (even after my large portion of paella….yes) I splurged for the full Orangery Tea. The menu: cucumber and cream cheese finger sandwiches; fruit scone with clotted cream and jam; a slice of orange cake; and choice of tea or coffee. As I really don’t care for tea I kind of cheated and ordered a cappuccino, but since coffee was an option I think I can be forgiven. The finger sandwiches were…interesting. I love fresh cucumber sandwiches in the summer (made with my mom’s fresh cucumbers, of course), but the crustless English bread was so cheesy. It was basically Wonderbread. I enjoyed my scone a great deal more and piled it high with clotted cream. When my massive slice of ultra rich orange cake arrived I was too full to even hope of finishing it. Luckily Megan and Brielle assisted me (Megan most ably) and we polished off every crumb of that fantastic cake.
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