HIGH-TEAHIGH-TEA
Indulge in the 200 year old tradition of High Tea & Champagne, served in the spectacular Grand Drawing room, on the family crested porcelain gifted by the last king of France, Henri V, Count de Chambord, to his private secretary, the Count de Vanssay, in 1868.
The tradition of Afternoon Tea dates back more than 200 years when, struck by hunger pangs somewhere between lunch and dinner, the Duchess of Bedford invited her friends over for tea and ‘a light refreshment’ in her rooms at Woburn Abbey.
Word of her teatime innovation spread, and on her return to London, ‘Afternoon Tea’ was deliciously inescapable.
Now, some two centuries later, high-tea is considered one of the most uplifting and fulfilling of rituals -- famous the world over for the precisely cut sandwiches, fresh-baked cakes, unsurpassable scones and tea. In France, we have adapted this slightly, to replace scones with our famous patisserie, and enhance tea with a glass…or two of champagne!
