Cake

[camberwellbeauty]

So if it was your birthday tomorrow and you wanted to go somewhere and eat Cake, where would you go?

[elsie tea]

If you're going to be 5, it has to be a Hello Kitty cake in true picnic style at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. Fingers crossed we don't all freeze...

[Applespider]

One of the hotels in the West End for afternoon tea

If you have last minute shopping to do, I think Selfridges and John Lewis also do afternoon tea (plus a champagne option)

[ljs]

Claridges or Fortnum and Mason ?

[Tarot]

Ritz.

[Ms_Lilith]

I know this isn't a place to go and eat cake, but this is a cool place to buy some. http://www.coxcookiesandcake.com/

[legalbeagle]

The Dorchester do a lovely tea.

[wee quinnie]

I'd go to Patisserie Valerie. Mmmmm.

[Jeremy]

Patisserie Valerie is great! Or tea at Ritz/Dorchester/Berkeley/etc if you have the cash. Sketch could also be a good bet at the top end.

[ruffers]

I'm a big fan of Sketch, although sometimes I find the Cake over stimulates my Shatner's Bassoon ;-)

[Jah Lush]

Another vote for Patisserie Valerie.

[jumpinjackflash]

Greggs, SE15

[Tarot]

Lyons Tea shops.

[dbboy]

In Camberwell you could try Caravaggio on Camberwell Church Street, have used it many times and is always good.

[GinaG3]

Maison blanc. One on fulham road I believe. Always had our cakes made at one in Oxford. Gorgeous!

[PeckhamRose]

The opening post was 22 December.

So what did you do yesterday in the end?!

[camberwellbeauty]

SO after considering all the replies (I thank yew) and checking on-line 'best teas in sarf london' dot com .. i'm afraid too many were out of our price range (you classy lot) plus I had three under tens in tow, so we went to the Mudchute Kitchen on the Isle of Dogs. If you don't already know - you go to Greenwich, through the foot tunnel, through the park, up the slippery slope, cross the stables and all the way there .. and it was shut!! Crapping Crap. Bitter disappointment, so we ended up at the Old Brewery in the Navel Museum in Greenwich. Lovely place, lovely muffins, lovely beer, but not quite what I wanted. Ah well, better laid plans next year. Or maybe a Hummingbird Bakery will open in the old launderette site by the Plough, off the Lane, near the Icleand, etc etc ..

Happy Christmas one and all x

[camberwellbeauty]

Er, did I mean navel ..? or navel ..

[Tarot]

;-)

Ha hem. Starting the kids a bit early on muffins and beer, dont you think.