Today on the trip was MLK day. I knew the parks would be crowded, so I planned mostly a non-park day. But, to start the day I did book two FPs at MK before heading to GF for afternoon tea.
We got up and got to MK around 10:30am. We went right to our first FP towards its ending time. SDMT here we come! I am riding a roller coaster in a dress. Let's do this!
And now we're off to Peter Pan!
And now, we're done! We got into the park, rode my two favorites that have huge stand-by lines and got out in under an hour. It was nice to just get a small dose of the parks for the day. And why not see this view if you can do it.
We took the resort monorail for some extra fun to get over to GF and arrived just in time for our noon reservation. This resort is just too beautiful to not have a 1000 pictures.
So cute, I could faint.
Right outside the Garden View Tea Room they have Chip and Mrs. Potts in the floor tiles.
We started coming here a few years ago and loved it! Even Rob really enjoys it here, so it's not just for ladies. We even go to tea time at a super fancy pants hotel near us here at home for special occasions. We just love tea time!
We were seated right away and it was pretty empty when we first arrived, but filled up as time went on and was totally full but the time we left, so I think this is one place that reservations are a must.
Our server Taylor was by far the friendliest person we have had here, so we were off to a good start.
Here is a look at the menu options. You choose your tea package and your tea and dessert option.
We both selected the Bedfordshire Tea. It's nice to have the cheese and fruit that come with the Cheshire Tea, but for an extra $15 each to have it, we'll pass thank you very much.
For our tea selections I went with the Summer Berry green tea and Rob chose the Enchanted Forest Black Tea.
I love the warmers to keep over your tea pot to keep your tea nice and hot the whole time.
Sugar cubes for the tea.
Drinking my tea like a lady.
Our beautiful tea sandwiches. Clockwise from the top we have sweet curry chicken, Poached Pear and Gorgonzola Cream Cheese, Fire-roasted Tomato with Oregano-Goat Cheese, Onion Tart, Cucumber, and Egg Salad.
I love, love, love the curry chicken and egg salad the most. What I really like is that they don't put a bunch of onion or celery or filler things in these which I don't like with egg salad and curry chicken. So these are perfect! Rob hates egg salad, so I got his sandwich too which was even better. The onion tart is also fabulous and has that sweet caramelized onion flavor which I love. The poached pear was almost good. The flavor profile was good but the texture of the pear didn't appeal to me. The fire-roasted tomato was good, but goat cheese isn't my favorite as it is a bit strong for me, but Rob liked it because he loves goat cheese. The cucumber is traditional and good but certainly not a huge standout flavor wise. Overall the tea sandwiches were a hit!
We also have our beautiful display of sweets.
We have the strawberry preserve tart and the Buttery Golden Raisin Scone with Devonshire Clotted Cream, Lemon Curd and Apricot Jam.
I love the tart but the scone is even better! I like the apricot jam with it a bit more than the lemon curd but the Devonshire cream is my favorite. My only complaint with this is that I wish there was about 3 times as much of the clotted cream.
For dessert you can choose from pastries, strawberries and cream or seasonal trifle. I was going to let the flavor of the trifle make my decision. Today it was lemon which I am not a big fan of, so I went with the pastries and so did Rob.
We each got a chocolate covered strawberry, vanilla bean swan and two French macarons.
How cute is this?
We loved the strawberry and the vanilla bean mousse was perfect. I was glad it wasn't a fruit flavored mousse. I didn't know which macarons had what flavor so I chose the green one assuming (correctly) that it was pistachio and another that ended up being vanilla bean. I loved the macarons so much! Rob thought they were okay and when I asked he didn't know what flavors they were. Cultured.
This was our best tea time experience so far! Service was great and the food was excellent. I forgot they don't accept TiW here, which is a bummer, but it's totally worth the cost. Our tea time here at home runs $25 per person for a similar experience, so it doesn't seem like Disney has a huge upcharge here at $35 per person.
If you haven't done tea time I highly recommend it! And if you have a male significant other digging in their heels about it thinking it's only for the ladies, just show them this review. My hubby loves it. He looks forward to it as much as I do and there's lots of men in there at tea time, so they won't be alone.
After tea time we made our way out to catch a bus back to DS. It's always fantastic getting to spend time at this beautiful resort. I will use any excuse I can to be here!
. Glad you enjoyed your dish! 
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We've done it twice before and loved it both times, so I'm really excited to dine there again...
