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Where to Find the Best Kids’ High Tea in Sydney

June 24, 2020 / High Tea, Sydney / 0 comment

Where to find the best Kids’ High Tea in Sydney

Take your tiny diner out and enjoy scones, cakes and treats galore at these gorgeous kids’ high tea offerings in Sydney. Pinkies up!

Gunners’ Barracks, Mosman

The Children’s High Tea is a gorgeous affair, featuring fairy bread, kid-friendly pastries and some hot chips for good measure. High tea comes with a hot chocolate or juice, but kids can also select from the tea menu if they like. The nearby Bradley’s Head is great for exploring afterwards.

gunnersbarracks.com.au

InterContinental Sydney Double Bay

The kids’ high tea is very thoughtfully designed, with a great selection of kid-friendly food including fairy bread, a chicken & cheese toastie, brownie, watermelon lollypop, banana and chocolate cupcake, macaron and strawberry fondue. It’s extremely reasonably priced at $25 .

Read more about our high tea experience at the InterContinental Sydney Double Bay.

https://doublebay.intercontinental.com/

Gatehouse Tea Rooms Parramatta

Located in historic Parramatta Park, the Gatehouse Tea Rooms are the perfect spot for introducing kids to high tea. Their “High Tea for Tin Lids” is for littles 3-12 and includes mini cheese sandwiches, fairy bread triangles, mini cupcake and assorted sweet bites plus a juice or soft drink. Run off the sugar afterwards in Parramatta Park on the awesome playgrounds.

Read more about our high tea experience at the Gatehouse Tea Rooms.

gatehousetearooms.com.au

InterContinental Sydney

High tea takes place in the elegant Cortile dining area, at the InterContinental Sydney. The “Children’s Tea Party” is served daily from 11am-5pm and includes quintessential Aussie treats, including a lamington, fairy bread, macaron, cupcake, gingerbread man, scones, mini quiche and rainbow slider. The high tea comes with a milkshake or iced tea.

Read about our high tea experience at the InterContinental Sydney.

icsydney.com.au

Shangri La, Sydney

Pastry chef Anna Polyviou creates a wonderland of delights for kids with her special themed high teas. Past night teas have included Barbie and Easter.

Read about our high tea experience at the Shangri La, Sydney.

shangri-la.com

Tea Room QVB

One of Sydney’s most iconic venues, the QVB, is famous for their high tea. Kids can also enjoy dining in style with the Children’s High Tea, including a range of finger sandwiches, scone with strawberry and raspberry jam and clotted cream, choice of tea, hot chocolate, juice or soft drink. Afterwards, take kids to the gorgeous toy shop on the top floor.

Read more about our high tea experience at the QVB.

thetearoom.com.au

The Langham, Sydney

The Langham offers some delightful themed high teas, usually during the school holidays. Past high teas have included Easter, Shopkins and Barbie themes. Kids can also enjoy the standard high tea throughout the year.

Read more about the Classic Afternoon Tea with Wedgewood.

langhamhotels.com

Tea Cosy, The Rocks

Kids can enjoy a special Kids’ Devonshire Tea which includes one plain scone, served with strawberry jamand double thick cream, with a babycino. The babycino is pretty fancy, and the scones are the best in Sydney.

Read more about our experience at the Tea Cosy.

theteacosy.com.au

Sofitel Sydney Wentworth

This iconic Sydney hotel holds themed high teas throughout the year, especially during school holidays. Past teas have included Beauty and the Beast and Frozen.

sofitelsydney.com.au

Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour

The Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour hosts the most divine Claris-themed high tea at various times of the year. Check their website for updates on when the Claris high tea will be back.

Read about our Claris high tea experience.

sofitelsydneydarlingharbour.com.au

Boronia House, Mosman

Kids aged 3-12 can enjoy the Little Ladies High Tea, which includes ham and cheese finger sandwich, scone with cream and jam, fairy bread, Remi’s homemade chocolate chip cookie, chocolate fondue with fresh fruit, homemade sweet treat of the day, mini pancake stack with maple syrup and a choice of T2 tea, hot chocolate, iced chocolate, fruit juice, pink lemonade or soft drink.

Read more about our high tea experience at Borona House.

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Sir Stamford at Circular Quay

The Sir Stamford regularly runs special themed high teas, however they also offer a standard kids high tea menu for children aged 5-12. The high tea is very similar to the adult one. When we visited, it included sandwiches, scones and sweets including a brownie, macaron, chocolate mousse cup and cheesecake square, plus a glass of juice or hot chocolate.

Read more about our high tea experience at the Sir Stamford.

stamford.com.au

Radisson Blu, Sydney

The Radisson Blu offers a special “Kids in the City High Tea”, which is designed by kids, for kids. The kids high tea includes a selection of sweet and savoury delights with by a special mocktail, juice, soft drink, or tea. Prices start at $25 per child under 10.

Read more about our high tea experiences at the Radisson Blu.

radissonhotels.com

Burnt Orange, Mosman

Overlooking Middle Harbour, Burnt Orange is a gorgeous spot for high tea. Their children’s high tea (for kids under the age of 12), includes a selection of treats including banana raspberry musk sticks and sour snakes, house-made chocolate freckles, kid-friendly sandwiches and scones. Kids will also receive fresh fruit and a choice of flavoured of pain milk, hot chocolate or juice.

Read more about our high tea experience at Burnt Orange.

burntorange.com.au/high-tea/

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Barbie Princess Power High Tea at The Langham Hotel Sydney

April 14, 2015 / Cheese, Indoor Play, Sydney, Sydney Life / 10 Comments

I was a Barbie kid myself, so it’s been an enjoyable case of history repeating to see my own preschooler getting out my old Barbie dolls and playing with them at the same age that I did. Barbie and I experienced so many adventures during our time together, and I love watching Cheese take the same Barbies (and a few new ones who have much better hair than mine) on her own magical outings.

One such outing that almost too good to be true was the Barbie Princess Power high tea at The Langham Hotel Sydney. The Langham has recently re-opened after a significant renovation and this was our first visit since the launch. Boy does it look good. The old hotel was beautiful, and the renovation has given everything a facelift to make it brighter and shinier.

The Barbie high tea was held over two weekends during the school holidays. It was more than just a high tea, it was a special event for kids who love Barbies, and their parents who love good food.

The high tea was split into two rooms. One with activities and one with tables set up for enjoying the high tea. The activities room had a paparazzi style media wall set up for some photo ops, a nail salon and an activity table with stickers for the kids to decorate their own superhero masks.

Inside the dining room, the new Barbie movie was set up to play on a large screen while we enjoyed our high tea. At each child’s place was a gift bag containing a Barbie doll, plus a blank mask for colouring in, and a poster that, when turned over, had more colouring and activities. The tables had containers filled with textas and pencils, so the kids has plenty to play with while waiting for their high teas to arrive.

The thoughtful staff confirmed who at our tables were vegetarians, and asked the girls if they would like a hot chocolate? With TWO marshmallows? Would they ever.

Next came the platters of food – top tier full of sweet delights like red velvet cake, pistachio cake, and macarons, the next tier plan and raisin scones with jam and cream, and the bottom tier savoury, with sandwiches, wraps, mini burgers, pumpkin tarts and heart-shaped fairy bread.

With one vegetarian adult and child, and one non-vego adult and child, we had quite the variety of food. It was hard to tell what was meant for who, so we let the girls choose what they felt like eating, and then ate the rest ourselves.

As you’d expect from a hotel as gorgeous as the Langham, the food was exquisite. The scones were some of the best I’ve ever tasted. The sandwiches were fresh and light, and the desserts full of flavour, with perfect pastry crusts and light creamy fillings. It was a delicious high tea.

As the event wound down, the girls were getting tired from all of the excitement, which was our cue to leave. Cheese was getting over a bad cold and was very tied and grumpy – hence the next pic we asked the concierge to take outside the Langham as we were leaving, where she refused to get in the picture. A big thanks to the concierge with the wicked sense of humour who captured my cranky daughter in the photo anyway. Does this sum up life with a threenager, or what?

We had a wonderful time at the Barbie high tea, and will absolutely be back for the Langham’s next event for kids.

Barbie Princess Power High Tea at The Langham Hotel
89-113 Kent St, Millers Point,
Sydney NSW 2000
Prices: Children’s high tea is $65 children with gift, $70 adults with glass of bubbles
Get directions.

Afternoon Tea By The Sea: House Eatery By George

October 6, 2014 / CBD, Cheese, Circular Quay, Sydney, Sydney Food / 2 Comments

After seeing the show Fluff at the Sydney Opera House recently, we stopped at the new House Eatery By George to try their afternoon tea. With a killer view and perfect location for shows at the House, it’s the perfect place for a nice lunch if you want to make it a special day out.

I’m a sucker for afternoon teas, and and on a mission to try every tea spot in every city I visit. Big goal. The House Eater Afternoon Tea consisted of three tiers, with a tray of 6 soft little finger sandwiches, two giant scones with butter and jam (no cream!), and a selection of sweets on top (two macarons, two slices of what I think was coffee opera cake and two lemon coconut cakes. The afternoon tea also included a choice of coffee or T2 tea. At $33 per person, it’s a reasonable price for an afternoon tea in Sydney, particularly taking into account the spectacular location.

I requested vegetarian sandwiches for myself and Missy E, and was told by the waitstaff that she would request it with the chef. I was not entirely sure what this meant, and if I would be served meat or not, and it looked like, when the tray came out, that I was basically lucky that some of the sandwiches were vegetarian by happy coincidence. Note to diners with special dietary needs: this is not the afternoon tea for you!

While the service was a little … spotty (for example, we had to flag down another staff member to ask for water to be brought to the table), the food was really delicious. The egg salad and cucumber sandwiches were fresh and light. The huge scones were fluffy and tasty. I would have liked cream instead of butter, but they were still great the way they were served.

I managed to get through my coconut-lemon cake (fresh and light) but that was it – I was too full for the rest. The wait staff obligingly boxed up the rest of the desserts we couldn’t finish for us to take home.

For Missy E, we ordered the Kids Afternoon Tea, which consisted of two finger sandwiches (egg and ham and cheese), a scone, mini biscuit and babycino for $7. I thought it was great value and would have suited me for tea for one. It was way too much food for Miss E to eat, but she did enjoy picking at most of it to give it a try.

After lunch, take little ones to the Royal Botanic Gardens next door to run off their energy. It’s one of my favourite spots to take Miss E because it’s one of the few places to take kids to play that makes everyone happy. Plenty for kids to do, and plenty for adults to enjoy as well.

Highchairs: Unsure.
Stroller storage: Yes – outdoors, there it plenty of room for strollers.
Easy access: Yes.
Change tables: No.
Kids’ menu: Yes.

The House Eatery By George
Colonnade on the Western Broadwalk
Sydney Opera House
Prices: $$$
Hours: Open 7 days a week from 11am till late Monday – Sunday.