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In this charmingly restored old Florida home, proprietor Sylvia Price, a very British sort of lady, has put together a sophisticated luncheon menu that ranges from Waldorf chicken salad and stuffed tomatoes to the full tea service ($17.75 per person; make a reservation) of petites fours, nibbles, and cucumber sammies. A proper English cream tea includes homemade scones, jams, lemon curd, and the thickest, most decadent clotted cream you've ever stuffed your mouth full of. Price's array of teas, including organic greens and Earl Grey, is mind-boggling, but the one to try first is her homemade chai, a wake-up call of a drink redolent of spices and orange rind.
A proper British tea has no place in the heat of a South Florida summer, until that lazy afternoon when you crave an escape from the blazing sun. Behind the shade of white lace curtains, pastel-colored ladies' hats and gauzy wedding veils decorate the walls. From a bookshelf, a picture of Princess Di brings an aura of propriety to the proceedings. Tea arrives in pots covered in flowery cozies. This is a meal designed for long hours of gossip and languid sipping. Each of the tea sandwiches... More »
Anyone who's ever dissed British food has never sat down to an English cream tea, an entity exactly as decadent as it sounds, in a very proper way, of course. Or put it this way: An English cream tea makes you want to plunge your face directly into the dish of clotted cream, strawberry jam, lemon curd, and scones (a biscuity cookie-cake) and sort of, well, roll around in it. But you and the ladies who lunch at Serenity Gardens Tea House will have to keep your lascivious thoughts to... More »
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