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.

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

Lovely treat for my sister and I. Good value, nice venue (Southend). Clean premises and helpful staff

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.

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

I booked x2 afternoon teas at S&L Blackpool as we were visiting for the day and had a voucher to use. I had struggled to use the vouchers previously. The staff were really good at S&L even phoned me to make sure it was correct for 4 people as I had booked 2 of the same. On arrival a really nice lady greeted us and was more than helpful and very welcoming. The sandwiches were really tasty and fresh. Great selection of everything. Even boxed the rest up for us to take home! Thank you ladies! (22/10/25 1.30pm) unsure of names xx highly recommend them.

We felt so welcome. Our waitress was delightful and nothing was too much bother. The food was gorgeous. Actually we couldn't eat all of it so we brought some home. And then we had a gin to finish so all in all it was a lovely lovely event highly recommend.

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

Amazing the lady who served us was lovely a d topped us up with lots of tea

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.