Afternoon tea - again

One of many, many things in Britain I do love dearly is the traditional afternoon tea. It's difficult to find just the thing here in Sweden though - if you don't make it yourself. And of course it has to be cream tea, not necessarily with clotted cream, whipped cream is often tastier, in my humble opinion.

Today Anne and I went to Sheraton hotel's Lobby bar for afternoon tea. Served daily form 15-17 o'clock. For the price of 110 SEK you'll get a pot of tea and a buffét with scones, sandwiches, pastries and cookies.

The bar is actually voted one of the 40 best hotel bars in the world by the American business site Forbes.com. I don't know if that's true, but it was kind of cosy with big armchairs to snuggle up in and a sort of artsy openfire-installation close by.

The cucumber sandwiches were really good, the scones rather dry - what better to hide that with than whipped cream? -, I wish they would serve strawberry and/or rasberry jam instead of blueberry jam and orange marmelade with cream tea in Sweden too. Actually I think there should be a law on that! The pastries was a bit boring, dry and not very tasty except for the strawberry (?) mousse. The cakes we didn't tasted.

All and all, quite alright, but still far from really good. Vetekatten is both good value moneywise and tasty, Chaikhana teahouse is simply luxurious (best tea ever, in Stockholm!) and very yummy. And then we have that little hidden gem of Skafferiet i Hamnen in Gustavsberg (from where the picture is, last Spring).