Afternoon Tea in Essex

The afternoon tea for two was fantastic, really good food and lots to eat, the surroundings was so lovely and it wasn't busy.

Spent a lovely afternoon enjoying an Afternoon Tea for my partner and myself brought my son and daughter in law. The sandwiches and cakes were delicious and hotel and staff were warm and friendly couldn’t ask for a lovelier way to spend an afternoon.

My partner and I attended the Maidstone Patisserie Valerie for afternoon tea for two, and it was such a wonderful treat for us both. The staff were friendly and professional, and the service was amazing. Our drinks were brought out first, shortly followed by our three-tier stand, and we each enjoyed 4 finger sandwiches, a warm scone with jam and cream, and 4 small cakes - everything was well presented and delicious. We couldn’t eat all the cakes so they even gave us a box and a bag to carry them in. We were told that we could have as many hot drinks as we wanted as this was included in the price. The staff made us feel so special and the atmosphere there was wonderful. It was also lovely that we could stay for as long as we wanted, so there was no pressure on us to leave after we had finished eating. We enjoyed it so much that we would definitely go again for another wonderful treat. Thank you so much.

We had a lovely and most enjoyable afternoon tea. The staff very warm, friendly and welcoming. The food was 5 star, most enjoyable afternoon.

Lovely afternoon tea. Tasty sandwiches beautiful scones and fabulous cake. In lovely surroundings. Very relaxing.

Was a very good experience, good sandwiches, cakes etc, in very nice surroundings.

We had an enjoyable cream tea given as a gift and paid for a friend to go with us x The staff were very efficient and food cream tea delicious would recommend highly thankyou

Staff were brilliant. The tea was lovely and we enjoyed it

Venue was lovely , waitress was very friendly and the afternoon tea was lush Thanku

Red letter days no problem. Slug and Lettuce Riverside Reading very poor. Waited 5 minutes to be shown to table no one acknowledged us then chose our own. Sat at table for 5 minutes no one acknowledged us. Went to bar waited approx 4 minutes before finally being acknowledged. During all the time we waited three members of staff glanced at us occasionally, never making eye contact or acknowledging us verbally, although the male member of staff continued his conversation with the couple he'd been speaking to outside the venue, when we first arrived. Please forward this to the Slug and Lettuce Riverside Reading then hopefully the experience won't be like this for another Red letter customer, because unfortunately as the provider of the experience it looks very bad for you. The food was nice but only warm, not hot.