Afternoon Tea at Browns, Glasgow

It was my elder daughter Emily's birthday last weekend. Time flies so fast that already one week has gone! No wonder why I am getting old and feeling older quickly.  Anyway, Happy Birthday again, Emily.

Our sort of ritual for birthday treat is that we go to Jo Malone for hand massage (with a fragrance used during the massage for a present) and then go for lunch. So, after the massage, we, Emily, Marian and myself met up with my husband at Browns (http://www.browns-restaurants.co.uk/locations/glasgow/) for a relaxing afternoon tea for four.

Browns has afternoon tea menu (http://www.browns-restaurants.co.uk/media/ugc/menus/2014/10/08/Browns_DN_Afternoon_Tea.pdf) for £16 for two people that consists of finger sandwiches, fruit scones and mini desserts with pots of tea. Sounds great and it was really great!

As it was Emily's birthday, I asked Lucy, who looked after our table if they could make up some nice cocktail for a birthday girl.  10 minutes later, she brought this lovely cranberry cocktail with some mint. I tried a little and it was very delicious and refreshing.

We chatted away for a while and finally our Afternoon Tea has arrived!

We started off with finger sandwiches which are smoked salmon & creme fraiche, egg & watercress and cucumber & cream cheese.  Breads were really nice and soft, fillings were really delicious.

We then moved onto scones. They were big, round scones which were lovely and warm that came with crotted cream and strawberry jam. 

We then moved to mini desserts which are rich chocolate mouse, Victoria sponge cakes and meringue with blue berry and cream.  Chocolate mouse was really lovely but also really really rich. I liked the Victoria sponge cake which was really delicious and moist. 

You would think there were not much portion to begin with but as always, once we got to the last tier of cakes, we were feeling too full to finish all.  I had both an audacity and cheekiness to ask for 'cake-away' which Lucy was happy to accommodate for us.

As I have said before in my previous blog, Afternoon Tea always tastes much better taken where it is served. Once you 'cake-away' to eat left-over at home, you can never re-create the same ambience and excitement of eating the delicious cream cakes and desserts and they never taste the same neither. 

I think my tactics next time would be to go straight to the cakes to start off and work the way backwards, i.e. eating the savoury sandwiches the last.  See if this works so that we can eat everything on cake stand, ha ha ha.  

We all however enjoyed our afternoon tea very much at Browns. I think it is reasonably priced (basically it is £8 per person!) with good quality sandwiches, scones and cakes, served with great customer service and we felt we were well looked after.  I hope Emily had a lovely birthday. I certainly had a relaxing day at both Jo Malone and Browns on her birthday!

Well, that's all forks!