Head Pastry Chef, Kevin Miller, has a unique eye for detail and has created some desserts with such poignant evocation of Bridgerton life and characters that you cannot fail to be fascinated. Take The Queen’s Diamond (dedicated to the star of the season), which Miller has imagined as a hand-crafted chocolate blended with honey, green cardamom and white chocolate ganache.
Equally imaginative is his creation of A True Love Match, a British staple inspired by Queen Charlotte, which has been translated into a classic layered Charlotte sponge cake constructed from a delicious light vanilla sponge, so elegantly layered with strawberry jam and vanilla twisted cream. Or the masterpiece that crowns the cake stand, which is a rosewater cheesecake filled with raspberry jelly and coated in a fabulous chocolate in a shade of the palest blue.
And bar the Bridgerton element and extraordinarily inventive food, if you love tea and hate tourists, come here. There’s a slightly off-grid quality to The Lanesborough, even though it’s bang in the middle of the Great Grande Dames of London triangle, it’s discreet and chic. Lady Whistledown would have been in her element.
The Lanesborough Bridgerton Afternoon will run from 25 March, for more information visit: lanesborough.com/afternoontea or call +44 (0)20 7259 5599.
