Part II of Rache’s birthday present to me was afternoon tea with the girls at the Met Bar. The Afternoon De-Light at the Met Bar offers an interesting and modern twist on the traditional afternoon tea: promising a healthy alternative to the usual calorie-laden afternoon treat, the Met provided us with a selection of cupcakes, sweet and savoury, scones and ‘no-bread sandwiches’. Not a trace of unrefined sugar, flour or full fat anything was supposedly in site.

The afternoon tea started off well with our very fresh teas delivered to our table – so fresh that my ginger tea was literally bits of ginger in water. It was extremely soothing on the throat if not exactly sweet to taste. When we first arrived we were sat at a small table for four but were soon moved to a cosier booth table when one became available (although if you heed my advice our original table with ordinary chairs seemed much more comfortable for seating and eating.)

The food part of the afternoon tea was delivered all in one hit and whilst impressive looking we were disappointed to see that there wasn’t actually one of everything for everyone to try … which wouldn’t have been so much of problem had the “no-bread sandwiches”, cupcakes, cakes and scones actually been fairly easy to share. Additionally, though priced at a fairly hefty-ish price of £25, there were strictly no re-fills either which to me seemed a little on the cheap side. The waiter tried to explain it away as a logistics thing – claiming that the chefs had produced an exact amount based on the bookings only. I wasn’t impressed. Sure the sweets were more than enough for us but we probably could have done with some more of the savoury bearing in mind, as I mentioned earlier, that they weren’t particularly shareable. I wasn’t being greedy honest!

Overall, the experience at The Met was pleasant if not particularly striking experience though sadly this was one afternoon tea where we all actually walked out hungry and craving McDonalds!