Afternoon tea started out as a typically upper class pursuit. Even Queen Victoria (pictured, right) got into the spirit, and had her favorite cake, the Victoria sponge, named after her. - Hulton ...

You're an American in London. You've visited Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the Tower of London, but there's one more thing you want to check off your to-do list: tea. No, not just any tea. We're ...

The community is cordially invited to an immersive experience that brings a classic British tea time tradition to Grand Rapids at High Tea GR. Their mission is to promote, encourage, and cultivate ...

British food is having a moment in the United States as Americans embrace tea parties, scones and clotted cream. Hotels and bakery counters ground these flavors in spaces that many consumers recognize ...

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea,” wrote Henry James in “The Portrait of a Lady.” “Teatime” is one ...

It began with a rumbling stomach, or so the story goes. One afternoon in 1840, at around 4 p.m. Anna Russell, the duchess of Bedford, complained of a “sinking feeling,” according to the British Museum ...