Reform Social & Grill introduces kids afternoon tea for mini Londoners

Earlier this autumn a friend asked where to go for a children’s afternoon tea in London and I didn’t really have a great answer. The only children’s afternoon tea I’d been to had been the fab monthly events that used to take place at The Kensington Hotel. But soon after my friend was looking for the right restaurant I heard about a new offering from Reform Social & Grill, a large, traditional afternoon tea hotel restaurant near the shops in Marylebone High Street, which has now launched a Mini Afternoon Tea menu.

We were invited in to try the new menu, and it didn’t take long before Baby Girl realised what she wanted to order after spotting someone else in the restaurant with a pink tin filled with sandwiches and treats. Baby Girl was super excited to receive her pink tin, munching away on a gingerbread man, jam sandwich and more, and Daddy T and I tried a traditional afternoon tea menu and an afternoon tea menu with a modern twist with canapés instead of finger sandwiches.

We loved being able to introduce Baby Girl to the British afternoon tea tradition in a fun way, but we soon realised the two of us were not particularly fun anymore. It turned out we’ve become the kind of grown ups who go for a champagne afternoon tea and skip the champagne due to me breastfeeding and Daddy T driving.

Reform also offers afternoon tea with free flowing champagne at certain times of day, which many of the guests around us seemed to enjoy, but for us it was all about trying something new with the family in a traditional setting we wouldn’t usually have found ourselves in. It was all about drinking tea, eating yummy scones and feeling a bit British!

Tags: Afternoon tea, Kids afternoon tea, London, Marylebone, Reform Social and Grill