OBSERVATORY HOTEL HIGH TEA
Chris and I had Part 1 of our 5th Anniversary today. Part 2 comes on Thursday, with Tetsuya's :) We weren't actually meant to celebrate today, it was meant to be next Saturday.. but I realised yesterday that I'll be flying half-way across the world then, so had to move it forward a week. A bit of a bummer, but at least we still get to celebrate! Anyway, started off with a jog to Artarmon - since the weather today was UNBELIEVABLY gorgeous. My goal is to jog 100% of the way, instead of 30% jog and 70% walk.. a full jog would take me about 15 mins and I think that's reasonable, but I can't get my stamina up yet :(
The Observatory Hotel
89-113 Kent Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Went to The Observatory Hotel for high tea, which I found at WISHLIST. They're constantly booked out so we were really fortunate to get a seat at such short notice! The hotel is beautiful, just pure luxury and all the staff are friendly yet discreet. We were served chilled glasses of Moet & Chandon, which just went down like a dream. I loved the atmosphere.. really cosy and English and the armchairs we sat on were so plush! The silver-tiered stand appeared magically and oh the SMELL!!! That freshly-baked smell was totally make me salivate :)~ It was very very very very hard for us to be posh and eat slowly and delicately when the food was so good and we wanted to scoff it all :P
The beautiful room
Camera shy!
Cheers to our 5th Anniversary
The tiered platter
Smoked salmon, cream cheese & chives, egg & mayonnaise, ham & cheese
Walnut/almond/pistachio cupcake - not too fussed about this, as I don't like nuts
Peach tart - amazing!! The tart base was soo buttery and divine
Hazelnut and chocolate tart - scrumptious
Freshly baked scones - the strawberry jam was UNBELIEVABLY good,
easily the best I've ever had. And wonderfully rich gorgeous cream
English Breakfast tea with honey.. mmmmm...
I also liked their bathroom so I took a pic, how classy am I :P
Pretty room
We ate for about 2 hours.. then went to watch The Island afterwards. I really enjoyed it!! I love sci-fi new aged fandangled kinda stuff, so this was right up my alley. After that, decided we weren't that hungry, so we didn't get anything to eat before leaving the City. Big mistake!! We promptly got hungry half hour later and nothing around was open :X So ended up with Lean Cuisine for dinner, haha. Weird celebration :P At least it was pretty good, I got the healthiest one I could find and it actually was quite tasty.
My favourite part of the day wasn't actually sitting down and having lovely high tea (though that was pretty amazing).. it was actually when we were standing outside. He had his arm wrapped around me, totally enveloping me.. and I had my head rested against his shoulder, nuzzled up to his neck. And I love it when he does that.. it's like my head totally clears out and it honestly feels like absolutely nothing is wrong in the world and everything is absolutely perfect and nothing can ever go wrong. It's hard to describe.. just that kind of feeling that makes you wish it could go on forever.. it's just nice :)
The Observatory Hotel
89-113 Kent Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Went to The Observatory Hotel for high tea, which I found at WISHLIST. They're constantly booked out so we were really fortunate to get a seat at such short notice! The hotel is beautiful, just pure luxury and all the staff are friendly yet discreet. We were served chilled glasses of Moet & Chandon, which just went down like a dream. I loved the atmosphere.. really cosy and English and the armchairs we sat on were so plush! The silver-tiered stand appeared magically and oh the SMELL!!! That freshly-baked smell was totally make me salivate :)~ It was very very very very hard for us to be posh and eat slowly and delicately when the food was so good and we wanted to scoff it all :P
The beautiful room
Camera shy!
Cheers to our 5th Anniversary
The tiered platter
Smoked salmon, cream cheese & chives, egg & mayonnaise, ham & cheese
Walnut/almond/pistachio cupcake - not too fussed about this, as I don't like nuts
Peach tart - amazing!! The tart base was soo buttery and divine
Hazelnut and chocolate tart - scrumptious
Freshly baked scones - the strawberry jam was UNBELIEVABLY good,
easily the best I've ever had. And wonderfully rich gorgeous cream
English Breakfast tea with honey.. mmmmm...
I also liked their bathroom so I took a pic, how classy am I :P
Pretty room
We ate for about 2 hours.. then went to watch The Island afterwards. I really enjoyed it!! I love sci-fi new aged fandangled kinda stuff, so this was right up my alley. After that, decided we weren't that hungry, so we didn't get anything to eat before leaving the City. Big mistake!! We promptly got hungry half hour later and nothing around was open :X So ended up with Lean Cuisine for dinner, haha. Weird celebration :P At least it was pretty good, I got the healthiest one I could find and it actually was quite tasty.
My favourite part of the day wasn't actually sitting down and having lovely high tea (though that was pretty amazing).. it was actually when we were standing outside. He had his arm wrapped around me, totally enveloping me.. and I had my head rested against his shoulder, nuzzled up to his neck. And I love it when he does that.. it's like my head totally clears out and it honestly feels like absolutely nothing is wrong in the world and everything is absolutely perfect and nothing can ever go wrong. It's hard to describe.. just that kind of feeling that makes you wish it could go on forever.. it's just nice :)