Afternoon Tea | The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny

Please excuse the shoddy photo above, all images were taken on my Iphone 4 which isn't the best excluding the first photo - Source: www.angelabergavenny.com) 

On Thursday 26th February, I totted along to The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny with a group of four friends to spend the afternoon enjoying a spot of afternoon tea to celebrate of my close friends birthdays. We chose The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny because we'd heard so many great things about their afternoon tea menu and we wanted to do something where we were able to have a natter and catch up. The staff were extremely welcoming, seating us at a round table of 5 seats and presenting us with their Afternoon tea menu. The room was spacious, bright and airy which was lovely and the table was dressed impressively with fine china. We had chance to chat for before they came to take our order. We all chose "Afternoon Tea" on the menu, a choice from a few including "Afternoon Tea with Fizz" for an extra few pounds. Afternoon Tea costs £21.80, which does seem rather expensive for a few cakes, however we were all pleasantly surprised at the amount of food you receive. Afternoon tea consisted of;

• A selection of Sandwiches
• Warm scone with strawberry jam and a choice of clotted cream, whipped cream or butter
• Freshly baked cakes and pastries
• Tea infusions or coffee

We chose our preferred drink and all chose breakfast tea excluding me who chose Early Grey tea. After around 10 minutes of chatting we were presented with 3 cake stands (2 stands between 4 of us), and the third stand was from the gluten free menu. We were happy to see they had catered for gluten free very well and not skimped on cakes just because she was gluten intolerant. We all munched our way through our cake stands and were happy to find most, if not all cakes were home made and the sandwiches were very fresh. We were given cheese, salmon, ham and egg fillings in the sandwiches alongside a slice of quiche on the bottom tier. Moving up the stand, we were given pink meringue, batten-burg cake, coffee cake, chocolate and pecan brownie, custard slice, a cherry bakewell and a few other cakes and on top we were each given an orange trifle. The gluten free stand was very similar but with subtle changes, such as fresh raspberries instead of a trifle. Soon after finishing our stands, a lovely member of staff asked if we would like our warm scones. We waited for 10 minutes and were then presented with a number of freshly baked warm scones with jam and clotted cream. We originally all chose tea to begin with but were offered more drinks - I then chose a hot chocolate. We were all bursting at the seams by the end of the afternoon, we were so full. I would highly recommend afternoon tea at The Angel Hotel. It is the perfect place to spend a relaxing afternoon to enjoy time with your girlfriends whilst being able to taste some amazing pastries and cakes they have on offer. Service was absolutely superb and I would definitely recommend booking a table here before you go anywhere else for your afternoon tea.

Have you been here? If so, what were your experiences?
Where else would you recommend for Afternoon Tea in Wales?

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