by Lyndsey Thomas | Mar 2, 2018 | Yorkshire's Best Afternoon Teas
Skipton’s new bar and kitchen, Alexander’s has been on my radar for a good few months. The joint keeps flashing up on my Insta-feed. Cracking looking cocktails one minute, pictures of packed-out sun terraces the next. Kids eating ice cream, delicious...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Jan 15, 2018 | Yorkshire's Best Afternoon Teas
Reviewed by Ellie – My First Ever Afternoon Tea Hi, I’m Ellie and I’m an afternoon tea virgin. Yep, you read that right, I’ve never had afternoon tea before. A struggling, skint university student – you’re much more likely to find me stuffing my face with...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Aug 18, 2017 | Yorkshire's Best Afternoon Teas
A proper posh Yorkshire Dales treat in a setting straight out of Mary Poppins High Tea comes with a whole new meaning at The Devonshire Arms in the Yorkshire Dales… If, that is, you’ve got the cash to splash out on their ‘High Flyers’ Afternoon...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Jun 26, 2017 | Eating & Drinking, Yorkshire's Best Afternoon Teas
Carlton Towers Afternoon tea was introduced in England by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840. The Duchess would become hungry around four o’clock in the afternoon. The evening meal in her household was served fashionably late at eight...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Jan 22, 2017 | Eating & Drinking, Yorkshire's Best Afternoon Teas
Trust me when I say that The Grand Hotel in York is very ‘ginerous’ with the quantity of gin and tonic that accompanies their marvellous Hendricks Gin afternoon tea. I can’t think of a better way to kick off my fortnight of 37th birthday celebrations...
by Lyndsey Thomas | Apr 21, 2016 | Eating & Drinking, Special Features, Yorkshire's Best Afternoon Teas
Well-dressed ladies gossiping and giggling, and pretty waitresses with French-maid style frilly aprons and bonnets rushing to attend to them. The first Bettys Café Tea Rooms opened nearly 100 years ago in Harrogate in 1919, and today there are six across Yorkshire....
