Majestic High Tea at The Victoria Room, Darlinghurst – Closed
Edit: CLOSED
OH HAI! So how was your weekend dudes? Awhile ago I won a Red Balloon voucher from Nuffnang and so on Sunday, the boy, the mothership and the mothership’s sister and I went to The Victoria Room (Level 1, 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst) for the Majestic High Tea ($65) which includes a glass of Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut NV Champagne. High tea without the champagne is $45 which I think is pretty reasonable esp as the fruit infusion teas were awesome
The Victoria Room is dark and climbing up the stairs is especially tricky after the harsh sunlit glare driving from Parra. The place is packed full of frocked up ladies chatting away and immediately the boy pouts and crosses his arms. Thankfully our table is in one of the quieter corners, away from the bridal shower group and after procuring his beer Noods uncrosses his arms and relaxes.
3 tiers of deliciousness! See those glasses of champagne clustered down the bottom of the photo? The boy and the mothership’s sister do not drink champagne ohoho more for me wheeee! And hey, I’m curious- do you people start from the top of the tier and work your way down? So savoury foods first, dessert saved to last? Cos I uh kinda start from the scones layer and then sweet and then end on sandwiches… my reasoning is that the sweets tier is always crazy sweet and I always feel like exploding from sugar overload.
I have to say I have high, high expectations of scones at a high tea. I’ve just had so many failure scones that I always reach for the scones first to get the disappointment outta the way but these babies were awesome! Though I wished that there were 2 plain and 2 date scones on a tier for 2 instead of having to share! Light and fluffy with the perfect crumb these scones were fabulous slathered with the Chantilly cream and jam.
Ah my favourite tier the sweets! The classic baked lemon cheesecake was my fav on the whole tier, cute as a button mini cheesecakes with just the right amount of zing balanced by a creamy, smooth cheesecake and buttery biscuit base. The dark chocolate cup with chocolate mousse, cream & fresh raspberries was cute but considering it was dark chocolate it was sooooo freaking sweet and lol it reminded me of my chocolate cupcake. The strawberry & vanilla shortbread tart was buttery and flakey, and speckled with the lives of several vanilla beans, and lastly the red velvet cupcake which was moist (ahem I miss you Ninja!) but could have done without the massive amounts of icing sugar in the creamed cheese icing. Did I mention my aunt is diabetic? Woot more desserts to share! And no I didn’t invite her along just so I could have her share of desserts lol what dya take me for!
And lastly the sandwiches. The bread was fresh and fluffy and woot no crusts ahaha I’m easily pleased 😛 There were- chicken & wild herbs; cucumber, crème fraiche & dill; smoked salmon, rocket, lemon, capers; watercress, celery, walnuts & goats curd. Noods has managed to scoff his share of the sandwiches before I’d even finished my scones but luckily he manages to steal some from the motherships tier who is not too fond of goat’s cheese and from my share since I can’t stand celery. I kinda wished there was a sandwich that had tasty or swiss cheese in it or maybe a mini quiche? Lol I wasn’t a huge fan of the chicken sandwich cos mine had bits of cartilage, the salmon was my fav but I have issues with dill so palmed the cucumber one off to Noods too who ended up getting quite full in the end.
The act of pouring tea into a strainer is still a novelty with me. I’m not a huge tea drinker so stuck to the safe option of ordering a ‘Fruit Infusion’ Turkish Apple tea. Loved the delicate tea cups but had issues with the burning hot metal teapots. Are there not more prettier teapots available?
Say cheeeeese!
Aftermath.
