Welcome to another entry in my irregular event, Afternoon Tea Diaries. Last weekend we headed into our favourite afternoon tea destination to celebrate my birthday. This is our fourth time visiting Oxi Tea Rooms and once again we had an amazing experience.
One of the reasons we love going to Oxi Tea Rooms is that the food looks and tastes amazing, and the themes are always high concept, interactive and different. The themes change every few months which means that every time you go there are some things that are the same, such as the two different pressings of tea, but the food is always very different and often there is a little keepsake to take home as well.
There are about 30 different varieties of tea that are available to choose from. I do try to choose different flavours every time, which doesn't always work. For example, I didn't really like the tea I chose last time. This time I chose a Kenyan Chai flavour and it was really good!
The current theme is Hatched: The Loop / The Paradox, which takes the participant from our earliest solid food through different experiences in life through to a representation of the end of life. It is high concept and lots of fun. For example, the image on the top right is representative of the baby porridge that so many of us start as our first solids. This time the menu also featured quite a few native ingredients such as green ants and finger lime.
There is often a bit of theatre, from how beautiful everything looks, to the crack of ultra thin chocolate shells encasing creamy mooses. This time, the final course took that to the next level.
We are big fans of Oxi Tea and will be back again for the next menu. There was a four course dessert menu that we might try another time. I am also conscious that there are lot of other afternoon teas that we can try so we will need to make a concerted effort to go to other venues. They will have to be exceptional to live up to the Oxi Tea Room experience.
You can read about our previous visits to Oxi Tea at the following links
Saturday -
Sunday - Out for dinner
Monday - Tomato and Rice Soup with pork dumplings
Tuesday - One Pot Pizza Mac (new)
Thursday - Beef and Pepper Pot Pie
Friday - Out for dinner
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