The Goring High Tea 🫖

If it’s good enough for our future Queen 👑 then it is more than good enough for us! The Goring is famously where Kate Middleton stayed the night before her wedding to Prince William in 2011. The hotel even received a Royal Warrant from the Queen in 2013 for hospitality services to the Royal Household.

The hotel employs footmen dressed in traditional red and gold uniforms, complete with white gloves — a delightfully old-school touch you rarely see anymore.

The Goring’s private garden sometimes features life-sized sheep sculptures as a whimsical nod to the family’s ancestral sheep farming roots in Devon. (…where we have just come from)

The Goring is famously decorated with hand-woven Gainsborough silk wall coverings, including in the Dining Room. Some took up to two years to complete.

Now the review of the High Tea 🫖 Experience: the service was impeccable and the food was delicious. You could actually ask for more sandwiches which we probably shouldn’t have in the end because we couldn’t finish our cake 🍰 & tart selection which came out on a three tier stand. Marta and Mark received their own little birthday cakes with candles 🎂 in them to celebrate their 50th birthdays from last year which was a very lovely touch. The Goring Team also left Marta a personalised card! It is definitely not something you would do every day unless you were Kate Middleton because the final price which included a glass of Bollinger and a gin and tonic came to £130! Extremely fine dining at a Michelin star 🌟 restaurant. But the memories: PRICELESS 🥰

We were tempted to buy one of the sheep 🐑 which each Guest receives complimentary when staying, but they were an extra £25 so we thought we had perhaps spent enough for the afternoon.

It is a very balmy 25° in London today and, yes, extremely warm. Our bellies are sufficiently full!Read more