Saturday was the day I had been waiting for all week - the day of High Tea at the Victoria Room in Darlinghurst. High Tea is very big around Sydney, it seems as though every bar and restaurant does it in an attempt to captivate what they think is "English"; I'm not sure I know of many places to go to for High Tea in England, other than the Ritz. Anyway, we arrived a little early for our booking, and were both very hungry having saved ourselves since breakfast for the treat; luckily they managed to fit us in and we had soon ordered our tea and the anticipated selection of sandwiches, petit fours and scones. The place itself was done in what I suppose can only be described as British-Raj style - it was very shabby chic. After what seemed like forever, High Tea came out in all it's yumminess on the traditional three tiered silver stand. On the top was a selection of tiny crustless sandwiches, of which our favourite was cucumber, creme fraiche and dill; the second tier housed the little cakes - a mini cupcake each, a viennese whirl each, a chocolate and raspberry mousse each, and a lemon tart each; the bottom tier held the scones complete with cream (not clotted unfortunately) and jam. The sandwiches and cakes were delicious but the scones were a bit a of a disappointment - I don't think a scone is quite right without clotted cream!
Our gluttonous afternoon was followed by a lazy few hours by the pool with a book at our apartment catching the rest of the sun. Sunday was spent doing exactly the same thing (minus the High Tea, of course). A restful weekend as this Friday we're off to Melbourne, yay!
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