Tiers of Joy Afternoon Tea Set at Lime (3 Upper Pickering Street - Parkroyal on Pickering, Lobby level)

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Afternoon Tea: 3-6pm daily

Note: Afternoon Tea can only start a bit later from 3.30pm on Sundays as they have a super long lunch Sunday buffet up till 4.30pm, hence the whole ambience will be quite noisy till 4.30pm) Try to come during Mon-Sat if possible.

SGD42++* includes a high tea set and one serving of specialty coffee and TWG tea
SGD48++* includes a high tea set and unlimited servings of specialty coffee and TWG tea


*Each set serves two people

Visited on 2nd April 2017 (Sun). Lime restaurant has recently revamped their afternoon tea menu from those english afternoon tea to a more local flavor, creatively infused with sweet and savoury local flavours. 

 

Top Tier Desserts: 

Carrot Cake / Passion Fruit Meringue Tart

Coconut Pandan Mousse / Peanut Butter Chocolate Cup with Gianduja Chantilly

This peanut butter chocolate cup is a beautiful dessert! 

The 2nd nicest dessert besides the coconut pandan mousse.

And this is the coconut pandan mousse tart! The main attraction among the whole tier. A very fragrant and soft mousse cake that will definitely leave you a deep impression.

This was my first time seeing a carrot cupcake! There were shreds of carrots inside the cupcake!

2nd Tier Savoury: 

Peking Duck Duxelles encased in Profiterole

Snow Crab & Green Apple Open-faced Sandwich

Shaved Serrano Ham Open Sandwich with Pickles

My Favourite: Snow Crab & Green Apple Open-faced Sandwich

3rd Tier Savoury: 

Expression of Nasi Lemak / Ayam Percik Shepherd's Pie

 

This is their version of Nasi Lemak, very unique rice ball. Spicy and aromatic!

Latte Macchiato

Cappucino

Overall impression: Price wise, the wide selection of tea and coffee makes it fairly reasonable and Lime restaurant is definitely one of the most value for money high tea place!

Overall, I can feel the improvements. They have improved their service as well! There is a sense of effort in the high tea items as you can see they have come up with unique items this time round which you can't find at other place. The quality of the high tea items were quite good! But personally, I still prefer a Traditional English afternoon tea. Nonetheless, this is still a very relax place for high tea at affordable price!

Afternoon Tea Buffet at L'Espresso (22 Scotts Road - Goodwood Park Hotel, Lobby Level, Singapore 228221) Reservation: 6730 1743

Visited on 20 Aug 2016. English Afternoon Tea at L’Espresso has been popular since the 1970s. L’Espresso is a cosy and relax cafe at daytime and a chic lounge by night, complete with a poolside terrace area. This spacious and breezy terrace has also become an ideal location for wedding solemnizations. 

Guests can also enjoy delightful set lunch and dinner menus, as well as gourmet dim sum and sensational cocktails in the evenings.

The buffet spread is an assortment of dainty sandwiches, salads, savouries, pastries, desserts, chocolate fountain and of course, traditional English scones.

English Afternoon Tea Buffet (with 2 servings of coffee or tea; from a selection of premium coffee and TWG tea)

Monday to Thursday
2pm to 5.30pm
$45++ per adult; $22.50++ per child

Friday to Sunday, eve of and on Public Holiday
1st seating: 12pm to 2.30pm; 2nd seating: 3pm to 5.30pm
$48++ per adult, $24++ per child

English Afternoon Tea Buffet (with a glass of Laurent-Perrier champagne and 2 servings of coffee or tea; from a selection of premium coffee and TWG tea)

Monday to Thursday
2pm to 5.30pm
$68++ per adult

Friday to Sunday, eve of and on Public Holiday
1st seating: 12pm to 2.30pm; 2nd seating: 3pm to 5.30pm
$72++ per adult
A bottle of Laurent-Perrier champagne: $125 per bottle

Dim Sum & Sips
Available from 6pm to 10.30pm daily

Happy Hour
Available from 6pm to 9pm daily
1-for-1 on all Housepour & Draft Beer

Please note that prices may vary during festive periods including the month of December, New Year Day, Chinese New Year and other special occasions. Kindly check with the restaurant when placing your reservation. Child price is for children 6 – 11 years of age. Prices are subject to 10% service charge and 7% Goods and Services Tax.

Open Concept Kitchen

Finger Sandwiches

Crossiants:

Poached Chicken, Avocado & Bacon

Prawn & Mango Salad

Smoked Salmon

Chilli Con Carne in Tortilla

Pork Goulash in Hotpot with Brioche

Creole Salmon with Citrus Crust

Potato, Leek & Bacon Pie (Left)

Gluten-free Pasta with Garlic, Prawn & Cream 

Traditional English Scones 

Bread & Butter Pudding with Vanilla Sauce

The textures of the scones here were those soft type. Quite disappointing.....

Dessert Station

Raspberry Earl Grey

Carrot Cake

Chocolate Dulcey Mousse

Mango Dream

Passionfruit Meringue Tart

Cassis Slice

Baked Cheesecake

Crunchy Hazelnut

Green Tea Pistachio

Banana Cake

Orange Panna Cotta

Chocolate Eclair

Chocolate Brownie

Creme Brulee

Chocolate Fondant

Strawberry/Chocolate/Vanilla Ice-Cream from Movenpick

TWG Tea Selection

Vanilla Bourbon Tea

Fine Coffee Selection

Cafe Latte & Cafe Hazelnut

Overall Impression: The whole place was quiet for the first seating compared to few years back which were full house always. None of the food was really good except for those finger sandwiches that I think were the nicest there.

Some of the desserts were not bad while the rest were barely decent. Seriously we were very disappointed in everything including the beverages here. I've been to so many high tea places and this is actually one of the worst......

There were a few points of our disappointment at L'espresso:

At this price of $48++ per pax, other hotels offer free flow premium coffee and tea selection for high tea but L'espresso has a limit of only 2 rounds, yet the pot of tea was so small. I finished the small pot of tea and 1 coffee within one hour and got thirsty.

The quality of the food especially desserts, were average at best. Even the top caramelized sugar on the creme brulee was not torched properly, the whole creme brulee was so soft. At this price of $48++ per pax, nothing was impressive. The desserts were mostly petite size cakes, very boring. They should have a mixture of desserts including shooter glass types or a live crepe station. The movenpick ice-cream was not even kept frozen. Most hotels include sorbet at this price, but not at L'espresso.

The coffee offered here doesn't taste nice too, seemed very normal type of coffee.

Service was so so, only the service from the male manager is good.

In my opinion, this high tea buffet is not worth $48++ per pax at all. We paid a total bill of $113 for 2 pax which is definitely not justifiable. Will not come back again unless the price is reduced to $35++ per pax for the same quality of food, desserts and drinks.