Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Afternoon Tea

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You can ask us anything you like, including the afternoon tea you're gonna see us have today. Anyway, we're hungry, let's go. So I'm just gonna take you through the afternoon tea, as you can see there. You've got the savouries there, which is the Coronation Chicken Sarnie sandwich. Salmon and Dill Quiche with Saffron Mayo, the Egg Mayonnaise and Watercress Sarnie. The Spinach Roly-Poly and the not quite as it seems Beetroot Macaron. You've got the Scrumptious Sweets there. I won't go through all of them as well, but I'm really looking forward to that very messy eaten mess. And the afternoon teas there, you've got at £58 per person, but you can upgrade to a Cocktail Afternoon Tea for £72. The Champagne, various ones at £72 and £76, all going up to £78. For the teas, you've got the Chocolate Noir, the Caramel Noir, the Lemon Verbena or the Berries and Hibiscus. They've also got Lychee and Rose, which I know Kelly will probably go for. You can also do an extra glass of Champagne or one of the cocktails here of your choice. So that's your choice here at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Okay, so this is the Caramel Noir tea. And he said it's just to be enjoyed because they're infused teas, so it's meant to be enjoyed just like this. But I said, you know what, I think I am going to need milk and sugar. So he's dropped off some sugar and he's gone to get some milk, but let's try it as is. You can tell the caramel, but I know that I will need milk with this. So mine is the Lychee and Rose. Now when these came, you can really smell that. I can smell Kelly's caramel and this rose. It smells wonderful. Black tea, but let's try it. Do you know what, that's refreshing. It's almost like a squash cordial. It's not really strong, but it's got a beautiful, beautiful taste. I love the rose as well. It's very floral, very fruity. That's delicious. This is going to be great with cakes and sandwiches. I don't tend to put sugar in mine because we have the cakes, which sweetens it. So really looking forward to that. So Kelly's now added the milk and sugar. So she's going to try a little more of a sweetened version of the Caramel Noir. Yeah, that's better for me. Good. Does it taste of caramel? Yeah, it tasted of caramel before that anyway. And it tasted of caramel when I added the sugar. And it tastes of caramel now that I've added the milk. But because it was quite light in the first place, I think I need it to infuse a bit more. So once it's infused a bit more, then yeah, it will really bring out the flavour. Okay, so I'm going to go for it now. I'm going to go for the egg one first. It's looking really juicy, really moist as you can see there. Okay, here we go. The bread is really soft. I can taste the pepper there as well. You can just about see there's chives in there. Yeah, you can open it. You can see there's chives in there as well. Very, very fresh. Beautiful sandwich. I know you sort of said this is a bog standard when you were getting it at Afternoon Tea, but it is very pleasant. I've ordered two. Okay, this one I'm really looking forward to trying. This is the Spinach Rolly Curry. It's got the caramelised jam on the top. It's all good. No, that's okay. It's good. Here's the caramelised jam on the top. We've got the Spinach Rolly Polly. Let's give it a try. These onions on that really add to it. You've got that note of sweetness in there. As you can see, you've kind of got the spinach. It's got that wonderful creamy, very, very silky. It's hummus. That's the cream. It's hummus. That's fantastic. That's really, really good. I know I'm jamming all the sandwiches so you guys can see. Right, now this is the interesting one. This one is the Coronation Cauliflower. Now, Kelly's got chicken. I've got Coronation Cauliflower. So this is the pescatarian version. Let's give this a go. Nice, neat little square sandwich. That is amazing. Lovely, subtle curry flavour to it. Really juicy. The raisins in there. Or sultanas, I think. I think we can just about make out that's a sultana right there. It's really juicy. Absolutely. That is delicious. That's my favourite one so far. Right, now this was the Salmon. Is that right? Yeah, Salmon. Look at that. It's almost like a little loaf cake. Well, it's almost like a little tart. Let me try this one. Here we go. That is delicious. You can see there's a little salmon piece in there. That's going to zoom in. You know what it's like? It's almost like having a salmon omelette. It's absolutely fantastic. It's almost like a little quiche. Oh my gosh, they're getting better and better. Right, last but not least. This is the beetroot macaron. And this is one that's really nice as well. Okay, here we go. I've never had a savoury macaron before, certainly. That's amazing. It's so nice. It's got an element of sweetness into it. It doesn't really taste much to me. It's a very, very, very subtle beetroot taste. But it's so sweet and undertones under that as well. That's really good. And do you know what? The order I ate them in is the best order to eat them in, I think. I just got lucky there because it starts off and it gets sweeter as it goes on. So it's almost like having a savoury and sweet thing. That's really good. I've been very impressed with these sandwiches so far. I'm going to let Kelly try them now. Okay, here we go. So this is the egg. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to open it up a little bit. So you can see the inside. Let's just try it. I really like the flavour of it. I don't know if it's the best egg sandwich that I've had. Do you know what? I've got to say, it's one of the best I've had. I'm trying to compare it with maybe Portnum's. Because Portnum's is our favourite, isn't it? It's very good. Now, the onion jam really intrigues me in this. Do you know what? I'm really looking forward to you trying this. Try and get a bite of the onion jam when you take the bite. And I've got a little bit here, so I'm going to try it with a little bit and see. Let's try it. It is good. You know what? It's similar to what I've tasted before in any afternoon tea. Yeah, I've got to say, I've never had a combo of hummus and spinach before. But I thought that worked really well. Onion jam. So good. Onion jam, onion marmalade. It's really good. Yeah, I found it as a real sweetener. The fact that you've eaten a lot just shows how good it is. Now, this is where our sandwiches differ. This is the only different one because you've got coronation chicken. Mine was cauliflower, coronation chicken. How did you find your cauliflower? Really good. I love the little decoration on that. It is cute, isn't it? And it's a perfect square. Now, you've got some good chunks of chicken in there. So, I just want to show what it looks like. So, let's do this. Dry, really delicious. And Mark's right. It just gets better as you go along. So good. I'm interested in trying these last two. So, this one is meant to be like a salmon tart nut. But it's delicate. I can feel that it's soft, it's quiet. And it's warm as well. It's a little bit squidgy. So, let's give it a go. It's fantastic, isn't it? It's like a little salmon quiche but it reminds me of a salmon omelette. I love my omelettes. What do you think? It's true. I'm not a lover of fish. The pastry is sweet. It's got that little bit of egg and then the salmon is smoked. And I'm not really a lover of fish. It's not that I'm not a lover of smoked. Sometimes smoked stuff doesn't agree with me. But you can really taste the flavour in there. It's really good. This is like a butter of some sort, I believe. Because it's not mustard, but it looks like mustard. That is good. Last but not least. It almost felt like a giant sea urchin. This one was a really nice surprise for me. Let's dig in. Beetroot cream cheese. It's beautiful, isn't it? It's like sweet but not sweet at the same time. It's really good. What do you think of the order that I said? I think we ate them in the right order. I'm not sure whether I would swap around the tart and the... I don't know. Mainly it's difficult. It's really good though. Really good. Okay, so we actually get an extra refill. And this is mine. This is how it looks. So there's Kelly. She has gone for the second refill, which is right there. And they've done me a little refill too. So just to let you know, here you do get... At least one refill. We will see if we can get more. But for now, we're going to chow down in these. I'm so full. Okay. Okay, so here we go. I'm just going to spread the jam. This is the snozzberry jam. It's still warm. It's crazy. It's so soft. And warm. It's good. Really? I'm not sure it's the best one I've had. What jam do you think it is? I know it's snozzberry. But what does it taste a bit like? Strawberry jam. Ah, okay. It looks like strawberry jam. It's good. And I was so eager. I've put jam on the other one as well. I'm going to start with the cream cheese one to see what this one tastes like. And Kelly's right. These are so light and fluffy. They're really warm. Let's try it. Oh wow. That's really, really good. It's like a combination of cream cheese but also with a very, quite sharp lemon. But the two combine each other so well. Lemon? I hope it's pineapple. Pineapple. I don't know why I say that because it's got very strong citrus taste. But you can really taste the pineapple. What's that pineapple drink you like? It's not the one we had at Disneyland. Oh, pineapple dole whip. It tastes like a pineapple dole whip. It's that good. That's fantastic. Okay. The smell's great. Wow, these ones are so good. Really good. I can't get over how light these are. Totally different from the other ones I've had. Some of them are harder. But these are really, really good. Excellent. I'm just going to show the cream cheese and the pineapple. So let's give it a go. Hmm. Oh, I really like that. Yeah. I had high hopes for it. No, I really did enjoy that. It is, there is a real tang to the pineapple. I like that. I thought you would like that, you know, but. All right, stick to the snowsbury jam. Mmm, good. So, although it was my birthday last week, they asked what we were celebrating. I told them it was my birthday last week. I didn't say today. But they so kindly gave me a happy birthday cake. That was so nice of them. So thank you so much, One Aldridge, for doing this. Really, really do appreciate it. Now here's something I only just spotted. If you look at the upside of the cup, it's actually got the One Aldridge name on there. Exclusively for them. I did thought it was quite unique, their cutlery there. The little pattern. So I did think that was a nice little touch. And look at this. The cakes have arrived. They look fantastic. They're served on this little box. You've got these, it looks like the grass inside there. Or is it moss? It looks absolutely amazing. So we've got, Kelly and I have got very similar ones. But this is the pescatarian. So this is the Willy Wonka chocolate bar with the gold leaf. Now the pescatarian one is gelatine free. Kelly's will have gelatine in. We have got the lemon, I think it's the... No, it's the violet. No, no, that's the blueberry. This one is the lemon. I'm pretty sure it's the lemon in there. This is the drink from the chocolate waterfall. This is Augustus Gloop. This one is the blueberry, which has got the blueberry tart here. And this one is the Eton Mess. But of course, there's the big candy floss. So you've got the theatre of that right there. You've got to guess what the flavour is. Yeah, as Kelly said, we've got to guess what the flavour is. So I'm really looking forward to trying this. Also, they did say there's a little draw here. Now let's have a look. Oh, shall we do it at the end? Oh, we'll do it at the end. We won't do it. We'll wait for the gift, but there's a draw there. So just bear in mind, when you have the tea, there's a draw here. I can't wait for this. It's amazing. But I don't want to miss you, baby So I stand up and speak It's my mind Oh Okay, so here we go. I am going to start off with, I don't know whether to start this way or the other way. So I think maybe the other way. So this one is different to Mark's one. So this has gelatine in it. So this is the main difference you get in your afternoon tea if you're going for pescetarian or vegetarian. This one has gelatine in it. And this is the Willy Wonka bar? Yeah, that's right, with the gold leaf on the top as you can see. There's the gold leaf. There we go. So let's try it. Good? So creamy. And the base has got little bits of just like a lime in their base. Really, really good. I'm enjoying that. That's so good. Oh Okay, the next one is this one. I don't even know what this is. But it is purple like Violet Beauregard. So. I'm pretty sure this is the one with the lemon. I'm pretty sure I've surfaced it with lemon. I didn't hear the lemon part so we'll find out in a second. We shall find out. But it is, yeah. Here we go. It's very light. It is lemon. Yeah. But it's very light. It's hardly it's only an inch. So it's not like a tangy or anything like that. It's really lightly flavoured. Oh you can see the lemon there. It's like a custard. Not as good as the first one though. So this is the next one. Now this one is the blueberry. Okay. I'm itching to know if that's meringue or cream on the top. It's meringue. It's for sure meringue. They've blow torched it. This is cherry. That's blueberry. Okay. Blueberry's normally purple. Alright let's try it. Blueberry. Yes because it's by it makes sense that it's blueberry. It's good. But nothing's topping that Oh the chocolate one. The chocolate one. It's not sour. It's light and it's fluffy. So it's good. But it's not as good as that first one. So let's try the eaten mess. So they've got 3-4 layers. So you've got the 3 layers here but that I would count as the 4th layer. Yeah that looks very sort of meringue. I love love eaten mess. I really can't wait to try this one. I feel my spoon might be a little bit big for this but Oh yeah. That's what I was trying to get all the way to the bottom. Oh is that sour? Oh that's right up my street. I'm looking forward to that one. No? That's not for me. But I'm going to try the Worcestershire cream. Save some room for later. Here we go. Wow. Nice? It just tastes like chocolate milk. It's not like anything. Oh my god. That's wow. I think it's got caramel in it. So our server was telling us. So that's going to be interesting. I can feel something sticking at the bottom. Maybe I just need to mix it. It's a normal chocolate milkshake but the last thing that I'm going to try is the candyfloss. Okay so here we go. This is it guys. We've got to guess what flavour it is. Now we can't unfortunately do it at the same time because we have a small table. So Kelly's going to go first and see if she can guess. I love the fact they've done candyfloss. I think this is a really good touch. What flavour do you think it is? Candyfloss. Now our waiter did say it has got a flavour. Snosbury? Snosbury? Who's ever heard of a Snosbury? What do you think? Go on. Guess the flavour. It's candyfloss. Alright let me give it a go. Alright here we go. I've still got chocolate taste in my mouth so that might affect. That's my excuse for trying to guess. I'm taking this very seriously. Here we go. Because it tastes like candyfloss. I want to say like a strawberry or a raspberry but yeah Kelly's right. It's got no, it does taste like candyfloss but it's got no distinguishing taste to it. I love it because it's candyfloss but oh no I think it's bubblegum flavour. Oh okay. I'm guessing bubblegum. I get a slight taste of bubblegum. We'll find out in the last couple of weeks. As we said in this bottom drawer here there is a surprise. So let's see what it is. With a grand reveal. Oh what's this? Oh it's popcorn. Tremendous things are in store for you. Many wonderful surprises await you from Willy Wonka. Look at that. Oh it's absolute popcorn. There you go. Popcorn, butterscotch essence and caster sugar. So it's sweet popcorn. What an amazing surprise. So we should put a little disclaimer actually when I do this as well for the grand reveal. But there you go. That's what's the surprise in the drawer. Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. And just before we go, we've just finished our afternoon tea. There's this fantastic chocolate fountain here. Look at this. Churning the chocolate. That is so so good. We've had an absolutely wonderful time here at the afternoon tea. So we'll do our final thoughts when we get back home. So we are back and we're going to keep our end of thing review short just purely because the video has gone over 30 minutes. So what did you think? I really enjoyed it. It's one of those ones that it's been a long time since I've really enjoyed an afternoon tea. I agree. I thought it was really really nice. Okay, let's talk quickly about the sandwiches. I really liked the sandwiches. I liked the egg one but you know I also liked the little tart. Oh that salmon tart was delicious. Yeah it was really good. It reminded me of a salmon omelette. Oh did it? I don't know why but it was so nice. Almost like a salmon quiche. Now I'm not a big fan of quiche. Yeah, yes, yeah. But it's, but I love omelette. That was so good and I loved it as well. Mine was the actual coronation cauliflower. You had the coronation chicken. Yes, yes, yes. I had the coronation cauliflower. That I found delicious. I found that really nice. Really flavourful. A very subtle slight curry flavour. Yeah. Delicious. All the savouries. Yeah they were good. I liked all the savouries. Yeah, again it's the second one I think I've loved all the savouries. I was gonna say so we did get one refill just to let you guys know. Yes. Now they didn't give us a second refill but they said are you ready for your scones so they brought them out so we actually went straight for the scones. Had we asked I think they probably would have done them. I think. It's a possibility but it's hard to know. Yeah. It's hard to know. They didn't really come out and say do you want a third helping. Exactly. They just brought out the scones so just bear that in mind. If you do want more sandwiches don't be afraid to ask. I don't think they would say. They can only say no. Yeah, they can only say no. Exactly. What do you think of the scones? Yes. Do you know what it is? I don't like to fill up on scones. In general but I do like scones and I did like their scones but in general I don't like to fill up on scones. But I love their scones. Their scones were so light and fluffy. They had the snozberry jam and they had the pineapple. Now you'll see on the video, Kelly didn't try it on the video because I only had to cut the video down a bit shorter so you didn't see your reaction. You didn't like the pineapple thing. I thought it tasted like pineapple dole whip but you really didn't like the pineapple topping on it. You didn't think it was that nice. Yeah. Yeah, like it's a tricky one because I'm always conscious when I eat scones anyway because they do fill me up quite a bit so I can't do you know what? I'm going to be honest I can't even really remember the pineapple so it can't have been that good because if it was good I would have remembered it. You didn't like it. You didn't like it. I loved it. I thought it was like pineapple dole whip. I thought it was that good. Right, going to be last but not least, what did you think of the cakes? I enjoyed the cakes. What I loved about the cakes was the theatre of it. Yes. Bringing out two boxes with all that on top. Now as you saw, mine was different to Kelly's only two bits were different. Yeah. But that's because the chocolate cake had gelatine so mine didn't obviously. You didn't like the Eton Mess because you said it was too tart. Yeah. But I really enjoyed that. Yeah but that's not your thing. Now again because our video was hitting 30 minutes I had to save time so I didn't show my reactions but I really really did enjoy that Eton Mess. I thought it was very tart a very strong tart bitter flavour. Not bitter but you know that. Yeah I mean I loved the candy floss and stuff like that but I've got to say I think, I did enjoy the sweets but I think I enjoyed the savouries more. Really? Yeah I think so. The chocolate milkshake you enjoyed that. I did enjoy I'm not saying I didn't enjoy the sweets. Yeah. What I'm saying is I enjoyed the savouries more than the sweets. Now I thought that they were some of the best cakes we've had. I preferred the cakes there to the Shard's one. Yeah. So to the Peter Pan ones purely because there was more choice. Yes. Now Peter Pan you got three. This one I think off the top of my head I think it was about five or six. Yeah we had different ones because there was even candy floss and then there was the cake and then there was the milkshake and then wasn't there the round ball as well. And that was the surprise. That was the surprise I thought it was fantastic they did popcorn in with the surprise I thought that was a really nice touch. Yeah. Because he did say to us there is it so it's butterscotch flavour for anyone who doesn't know. It says on here it contains popcorn, butterscotch butterscotch essence and caster sugar. So it's butterscotch flavour you have there. We forgot to ask the waiter for the flavour of the candy floss because we had to guess that. And I couldn't tell what it was. I thought it was bubblegum flavour. I just thought it was candy floss. Candy floss doesn't even have a flavour. So where would you rank this in our afternoon teas? So we've done the Shard we've done Shard. We did the Park Lane one. Park Lane. Sorry Knightsbridge one. Knightsbridge one. This one. Did we. Is We've done Sanderson's. We've done a few. No in this series. Oh in this series we haven't done Sanderson's. We did Sanderson's a long long time ago. Yes. So they're all going to be. This is going to be an afternoon tea series for this year. Oh and Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast. Right. So I think the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ranks number one at the moment in this series. In this series. There you are. At the moment. Now we are going to have more afternoon teas coming up in this series because I'm just trying to think. So obviously we've done previous ones and but we haven't done my favourite one. This series. Well that would be to come. Yeah. Question I've got to ask you. So this is ranked number one so far by Kelly. Yes. Would you go again? Oh yes. Of course. I would go again. We would thoroughly recommend this afternoon tea. It's really nice. The theatre's great. The actual actions there. The food. The sandwiches as Kelly said are delicious. What's your number one? That's a difficult one. Of this season. Of this season. Probably this one is up there. Right. So I would say these are really is a really good afternoon tea. The savouries I agree are one of the best we've had and I've got to say that. The savouries are absolutely fantastic. Yeah. The theatre of the boxes was great. I was going to say and the scones were delicious. Overall a fantastic afternoon tea. We didn't even mention you had the hot chocolate. Oh yeah. Which was again you really liked as well. Yeah. Yeah. You'll see that actually as I rotate it round there as well. We only just showed a little bit of it. We didn't see Kelly eating it as well. Yeah. The teas were really good as well. The whole afternoon tea. Okay you don't get the views of the show like you do but the whole theatre of it was absolutely fantastic. Yeah. I really liked it. There you have it folks. So a huge recommendation from both Kelly and I. That's it from Mark and Kelly's trips tips and things. Thank you for watching our video and don't forget to like share and subscribe. All of that stuff just really helps the channel. And don't forget to join us on our live chat every Tuesday and every Friday 6pm UK time where you can talk about anything you like including the afternoon tea you see us eat today. Until then do look after yourselves, take care and remember you're never too old to have fun. We will see you in our next video. Bye for now. Bye for now.