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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Peacock Alley at the Willard.[/quote]

Went there recently and it was terrible. Do not recommend![/quote]

Really? I'm the OP who was there today. We enjoyed it a lot.

I do admit service wasn't great (they didn't bring cream for the tea and it took me forever to flag someone down to ask for it, and when I asked for it the waiter snottily told me that cream doesn't go with the tea I ordered and I had to show him I'd ordered black tea and then he said "Oh, yes, you can have it with that kind" and went and got it, so yeah, that was super weird and annoying--I think I know whether or not I want cream in my tea). And I was thirsty and drank my water pretty much right after sitting down and they didn't refill it until I was about to leave. So I wasn't crazy about the service, but it certainly wasn't terrible. The scones were fantastic, the clotted cream/jams/lemon curd were excellent, the tea sandwiches fine (nothing to write home about) and the dessert pastries fine (again nothing to write home about). [/quote]

Tea.with cream is blasphemy.  But of course I'm an anglo lifelong tea drinker.  [/quote]

NP. Then why is it consistently served with cream and sugar?

Also, you’re pretty uppity for someone who can’t manage a single sentence without a punctuation error.[/quote]

Pretty normal thing to put cream in black tea -- even for Anglo lifelong tea drinkers, lol. [/quote]

Not in the UK, if that is what you mean by Anglo. Milk, never cream. But you’re in the USA so of course do whatever you want![/quote]

Not PP, but why milk but not cream for English people? They’re essentially the same thing 🤔[/quote]

They're not, though. Does anyone drink straight cream? And if you drink milk, don't you buy a particular fat content? (Tea takes whole milk, btw, not skim)[/quote]

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