Afternoon Tea

The tradition of Afternoon Tea dates back more than 200 years when, struck by hunger pangs somewhere between lunch and dinner, the Duchess of Bedford invited her friends over for tea and ‘a light refreshment’ in her rooms at Woburn Abbey. Word of her teatime innovation spread, and on her return to London, ‘Afternoon Tea’ was deliciously inescapable.

Now, some two centuries later, The Sweet Shoppe continues the tradition with precisely-cut sandwiches, fresh-baked cakes, unsurpassable scones and tea.