{"id":10764,"date":"2010-08-08T21:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2021-10-31T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:02:21","slug":"confessions-of-a-chocolaholic-afternoon-tea-at-the-hilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10764","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Chocolaholic Afternoon Tea at the Hilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overindulged at\u00a0the &#8220;Confessions of a Chocaholic Afternoon Tea at the Hilton&#8221;\u00a0 in the Podium Restaurant on the ground floor of the Park Lane Hilton.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10764 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3393.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3393-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3394.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3394-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3397.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3397-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3395.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3395-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3398.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3398-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3401.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3401-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This afternoon tea is good value for money, compared to a lot of the hotel based afternoon tea options in London (\u00a329.50 including a glass of champagne).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The three tier cake stand used looks great and\u00a0I was impressed by the chocolate\u00a0selection, even the gold\u00a0sprinkled\u00a0base was made out of chocolate.\u00a0 There is so much here, making the pretty take away handbags\u00a0a must.\u00a0 The Tea selection was also interesting\u00a0and extensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The open sandwiches were beautifully presented, tasty and fresh. The chocolate spread with Chocolate Chip scones was also a nice touch. Not so keen on the cup cakes though which were rather ordinary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The let down was more on the service side, which although friendly, was really slow. It was hard getting attention and it was nearly a hour before we started!\u00a0 I am also not sure that &#8220;I did not have time to bring the extra sandwiches is a particularly good excuse&#8221; in a hotel of this calibre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The room was pleasant enough but had rather bad acoustics\u00a0and the use of live and canned music really did not work.<\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 5.7<\/p>\n<p>Service 3.8<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overindulged at\u00a0the &#8220;Confessions of a Chocaholic Afternoon Tea at the Hilton&#8221;\u00a0 in the Podium Restaurant on the ground floor of the Park Lane Hilton. This afternoon tea is good value for money, compared to a lot of the hotel based afternoon tea options in London (\u00a329.50 including a glass of champagne). The three tier cake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confessions of a Chocolaholic Afternoon Tea at the Hilton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,192,7,8],"tags":[361,359],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chocolate","category-coffee-tea-and-cakes","category-london","category-uk","tag-podium-restaurant","tag-the-hilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29867,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions\/29867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}