Afternoon Tea at The Goring

What a fantastic afternoon tea.
Beautiful hotel.
All staff were very friendly polite helpful & professional.
The tea itself was delicious.
Lovely selection of sandwiches. Fantastic scones & gorgeous cakes as well.
Good choice of teas too.
The service was excellent.

Goring Bollinger Afternoon Tea to celebrate friends birthday, the best choice ever, as we had plenty of time to catch up as well. We were made truly welcome on arrival and when shown to our table. Our choice of tea from the menu was The Goring Afternoon Blend what a wonderful tea, just sorry we couldn’t buy some. The sandwiches were fresh, delicious and nice selection, the scones were light and enjoyable and to top it off the pastries. Absolutely excellent. To add to the special day my friend celebrated with a piece of cake with candle which just finished the afternoon beautifully for her. The service/attention of the staff was excellent. All in all a terrific time was had by both of us. Thank you The Goring.

Wonderful way to start our week in London! Not a detail missed and beautiful sunny day to boot! Attentive and caring service in beautiful surroundings.

We had the afternoon tea. Overall the tea was lovely, there was a strange pea/salmon type mouse to start which we were not fans of but the rest was nice.

It was so fancy, I almost felt out of place. I have you know, this was our first afternoon tea ever, so we felt like total beginners - but also very welcomed by your staff, who is very professional and friendly. The place is VERY stylish and interesting, we enjoyed strolling around the place and the garden. Tea was lovely as well, the scones were the best I ever had, the pastries looked perfect, but could not compete with their taste, the sandwiches however were not that good. The bread was too soft actually. For people like us, that are able to afford this fancy experience once in their lives, it would be courteous to have the price of extra champagne noted down somewhere, this was quite a surprise to us.

A wonderful experience and great service

Tea selection was excellent. Would have liked more variety in sandwiches. Cakes and scones were delicious.

As always, the food was exceptional The table we were allocated was unsuitable because my husband has back trouble and needs to be seated at a proper dining table, not a lounge chair. That was sorted and we were moved but ------ the table we were given was cold and draughty. There was a distinct draught coming from the closed french doors, and a gentleman sitting in the outside area was smoking a cigar, and this pungent smell was surrounding our table, underlying my comments about the draughty french doors. We did ask to move but were told no other table was available. The staff did their best and were very attentive.

Great afternoon tea experience. Perfect savoury and sweet courses. Particularly impressed with the table settings, both those within the lounge atmosphere and the garden conservatory, the freedom to sample as many varieties of tea one wishes and the informative waiting service. And of course the unique boutique atmosphere of The Goring.

Our afternoon tea was absolutely lovely! We had a group of 4 and everything from the food to the service was great. It’s a really beautiful, relaxing atmosphere with a profound attention to detail. The finger sandwiches were really yummy and the scones were delicious as well. The Goring has their own personal tea blend and I would highly recommend trying it.