In nearly a year now, I’ve not had a half decent brew. So on returning from the U.S. for a week, I made a beeline for the tea cups and cake stands at The Berkeley.
The London hotel’s traditional afternoon tea has a fashionable twist, with the waiter leading us through its Spring/Summer 2012 collection of treats. Each cake, mousse or biscuit has been inspired by the world’s top designers and their must-have items.
There’s the D&G blue wicker basket made from moulded chocolate wrapped around blueberry sponge cake and finished with a tiny gold ‘clasp’. A Christian Louboutin neon yellow high-heeled shoe became a beautifully crunchy biscuit – not forgetting the line of red icing along the heel. And the chefs paid tribute to a Michael Kors gown with a layered mocha mousse cake topped with a leopard print slither of chocolate.
LydiaWarren 