fulmine
[quote=gorefidel][quote=fulmine]Fortnum's Breakfast Tea. Seriously, I love it. Have to go back in there tomorrow to stock up, thinking about it. Staff are great in the food hall, all seem to be Scousers.[/quote]Interesting fact...well I found it interesting. Twinings and Fortnums are owned by the same family (Westons). Think they still are. Also the restaurant on the 4th floor does the best carvery ever. Only charge a £1 extra for wine off the shelves.[/quote]Wow (genuine wow, that), didn't know that. Yes, love the restaurant on the fourth floor. Mate of mine interviewed Terence Stamp up there once. Stamp loves a bit of Fortnums. One of the happiest days of my life was a couple of years ago, walking through Piccadilly Arcade and Stamp was walking towards me, bang opposite, just me and him, walking towards each other down this long arcade. He's one of my heroes, silly as that might sound. I'm trying to be all cool, thinking "fucking hell, it's Stamp!" He looked down at my shoes (Tod's, they were) and then he only bloody nodded at me and said "nice". Stamp!
gorefidel
[quote=fulmine][quote=gorefidel][quote=fulmine]Fortnum's Breakfast Tea. Seriously, I love it. Have to go back in there tomorrow to stock up, thinking about it. Staff are great in the food hall, all seem to be Scousers.[/quote]Interesting fact...well I found it interesting. Twinings and Fortnums are owned by the same family (Westons). Think they still are. Also the restaurant on the 4th floor does the best carvery ever. Only charge a £1 extra for wine off the shelves.[/quote]Wow (genuine wow, that), didn't know that. Yes, love the restaurant on the fourth floor. Mate of mine interviewed Terence Stamp up there once. Stamp loves a bit of Fortnums. One of the happiest days of my life was a couple of years ago, walking through Piccadilly Arcade and Stamp was walking towards me, bang opposite, just me and him, walking towards each other down this long arcade. He's one of my heroes, silly as that might sound. I'm trying to be all cool, thinking "fucking hell, it's Stamp!" He looked down at my shoes (Tod's, they were) and then he only bloody nodded at me and said "nice". Stamp![/quote]Many years ago Fortnum's were one of my customers. I used to have 6 monthly meetings with the FD and he's take me to lunch on the 4th floor restaurant. He told me that they'd designed the place to appeal to ladies who lunched alone. And put it on the 4th floor so they could feed and then shop on the way down. They also had subsidised prices to attract them. Seemed to work. When they re decorated it, they had to recreate the place exactly as it was (before it got dowdy) so much so they traced the guy who created the original screen prints (well his grand daughter) bought the plates and then re decorated. Dead nice people. Even Gary Weston (who owned it and Associated British Foods) and was a billionaire. He bought his shirts out of the Sunday Express (if you remember the artist impression adverts at £4.50 a pop) and got the tube to work on his own.
fulmine
Good old Fortnums. It's like the Savoy, isn't it? Proper posh, but not snobby. Very occasionally, when I've got something to really celebrate, I'll sit in the American Bar at the Savoy with a few mates and get spoiled rotten while getting slowly shit-faced. Lovely.
gorefidel
fulmine wroteGood old Fortnums. It's like the Savoy, isn't it? Proper posh, but not snobby. Very occasionally, when I've got something to really celebrate, I'll sit in the American Bar at the Savoy with a few mates and get spoiled rotten while getting slowly shit-faced. Lovely.
Yeah.... it has style and not a bit snobby. Well, given they introduced baked beans to England and they invented the scotch egg, so it would hard wouldn't it?
Blue_Lou_Boyle
so how much would you pay for a pot of tea for one?[quote]FORTNUM’S TEAS All served as a Pot of Tea for One CLASSIC TEAS £5.00 Breakfast Blend Royal Blend Queen Anne Blend Earl Grey Classic Darjeeling Broken Orange Pekoe Lapsang Souchong Green Earl Grey Jasmine Herbal Infusions: Blackcurrant, Elderflower, Red Berries, Lemon & Ginger, Grapefruit Orange & Lime, Honeybush, Rooibos, Camomile or Peppermint RARE TEAS £9.00 Assam Hazelbank An aristocratic Assam from a stately tea garden near the River Brahmaputra, renowned for its richness. Darjeeling Bannockburn Second Flush Darjeeling is plucked in May and June. It is widely sought after and considered to be the finest quality produced during the entire season. Jasmine Tai Mu Long Zhu Also known as “Dragon Eyes”, Tai Mu Long Zhu means “green tea pearls from the Tai Mu mountain range”. It has been hand-rolled for over 100 years and when infused provides a mellow flavour, with a hint of jasmine and a pale liquor. Yunnan Golden Needles A full bodied malty black tea with an abundance of golden tips, an indication of fine plucking standards. The leaf has been carefully rolled resulting in the needle-like appearance. TREGOTHNAN BLACK TEA £34.00 Tucked away on the banks of the River Fal in Cornwall is the Tregothnan Estate, home of Lord Falmouth’s family since 1335. Secretly developed over the last eight years and heralded as the “Next Darjeeling”, the perfected tea has become in short order one of the world’s most sought-after.[/quote]For the record when I have a brew somewhere like morrisons I nick a tea bag out of one pot, fill he next one with hot water and also fill a mug with hot water tooSo I get about 3 mugs of tea for under a quid, and still feel that's a cheek
Sir_Gaylord_Retardo
Outrageous behaviour!!You bloody tea leaf.
DavidHarveysMonkey
It was free. In my house.I don't like milk.The Cha ChartsIn order1) Green Tea2) Earl Gray3) Whatever else they have
kaydubya
Top teas:Jasmine teaYorkshire goldEarl GrayAll without milk as it ruins the taste, may aswell shit in it. :DThough I do have one sugar in normal tea, cut myself down from the two that I was brought up on.
Rudi
Pyramid BagsLemon TeaThe One The Monkeys Drink
kaydubya
Rudi wrotePyramid BagsLemon TeaThe One The Monkeys Drink
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ToBQc-XXvRA
DavidHarveysMonkey
I used to work with a bloke who had SIX sugars in his tea. Derek Ridgers. Chewbacca sized international photo-weirdo who did Getting Away With It fetish club page in loaded.
Rudi
My old feller wont drink tea from a dark coloured mug No idea why not.
kaydubya
Rudi wroteMy old feller wont drink tea from a dark coloured mug No idea why not.
Neither will I!You can't tell how brewed it is in a dark mug.Needs to be white and thin. Tea in thick mugs isn't as nice either.
Rudi
kaydubya wroteRudi wroteMy old feller wont drink tea from a dark coloured mug No idea why not.
Neither will I!You can't tell how brewed it is in a dark mug.Needs to be white and thin. Tea in thick mugs isn't as nice either.
Is that why?I thought he was just being awkward.
kaydubya
Yeah, it's impossible to see how weak or strong it is.I;m dead finiky about tea. I'll pretty much only drink it if I make it myself. :/
Harvest
david harvey's monkey wroteI used to work with a bloke who had SIX sugars in his tea. Derek Ridgers. Chewbacca sized international photo-weirdo who did Getting Away With It fetish club page in loaded.
Could he tell if you made him one and it only had five in?
DavidHarveysMonkey
The Mrs has arrived back from the shop earlier with 'Love Tea'. What she doesn't realise is I've already had a few cups of 'S lump on the settee watching Champions League Farting Tea'.BTW it smells like most of the other herbal teas that smell like a melted candle.
Young_Marxist_at_Tescos
david harvey's monkey wroteI used to work with a bloke who had SIX sugars in his tea. Derek Ridgers. Chewbacca sized international photo-weirdo who did Getting Away With It fetish club page in loaded.
Most I ever heard about was five, by Peter Perrett out of The Only Ones. Linked to his other favoured tipple perhaps?
uppercut
I think Lapsang Suchong is bloody lovely.I had a mug on the go and a mate reckoned it smells like burnt brakepads though.
Blue_Lou_Boyle
I've not had a brew all fucking day!!