It’s a tough one this. Hard to judge by simple cream tea standards, since we plunged in and had the full afternoon. This included a range of sandwiches and quite insane numbers of cakes as you can see in the picture.

But let’s stick to what we know and discuss the scones and tea. Tea - perfectly nice, but the pots were small and we had to ask for extra. The first jug of milk had unidentified floating black bits in it - but was changed without argument.

Scones - both fruit and plain were provided. With lashings of clotted cream and gallons of jam - but the jam was blackcurrant - and a tart blackcurrant at that. Pleurgh! Scones themselves, could have been plumper, moister and more generous with the fruit - especially considering this was a high-class establishment. But you can’t fault the presentation. Look at that sprinkling of icing sugar, embrace the scattering of genuine strawberries!

The rest of the tea - sandwiches and cakes were excellent - the lemon drizzle and shortbreads proved particularly popular with our party - so I don’t like to be too mean. But I’d be pretty narked if I’d paid £6 for the simple cream tea and got those scones.

£12 for full afternoon tea - if you wanted the regular cream tea - £6