I brought up the idea of high tea to Lorrie and Molly a couple weeks ago. They liked the idea so I did some research. After ruling out places based on location, price, and menu, we decided to go to Eteaket, near Princes Street. Lorrie did some research and found out the difference between high tea and afternoon tea. High tea is actually dinner, eaten between 5 and 7pm, and is often fish and chips. Afternoon tea is the light snack between 2 and 5pm. It was actually quite confusing when I first got to Scotland because people would refer to dinner as tea and most of us Americans had no idea what they were talking about.
We went to tea on Sunday, October 30th. The "light" meal consisted of sandwiches, scones, clotted cream, jam, shortbread, pastries, and, of course, a pot of tea. Once the tea came, we each had a timer before we could pour it:
Our food arrived and it was somewhat overwhelming:
Between the five of us, the food barely fit on the table, even when it was stacked.
We pretty much demolished the food. It was all delicious, especially the scones with clotted cream and jam!
This is definitely something the British do right.
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