Afternoon Tea Awards 2025 - Award of Excellence 

Hotel Café Royal raises a glass to David Bowie with an Afternoon Tea composed in his honour. A celebration of flavour, fantasy and flairs, the menu nods to the rock deity’s many eras and incarnations ten years after his passing. Available now until 12th February 2026.

Menu heroes include “The Berlin Years” finger sandwiches made with pastrami smoked in-house, a groovily striped “Midnight Orange” chocolate éclair and a “Lemon Static” mousse sporting bowie’s signature lightning bolt.

Famously, the singer only sipped Japanese green tea and an expertly sourced selection appears alongside loose-leaf oolongs, darjeelings and the finest French champagnes. Decadent and distinctive, Ziggy Stardust would have approved. After all, it was within these very walls where Bowie gave him a final sendoff at a lavish 1973 affair with the Beatles and Mick Jagger by his side. This definitive moment in Hotel Café Royal's history continued its long-standing dialogue with the best of British culture.

As gilded features decorate the mirrored room and artistic ceilings, delightful delicacies, sumptuous sweets, and overflowing champagne and teas make the entire service one to remember. Plus, with live piano and an intimate setting, you will find yourself transported to a time gone by, one where patrons of old waltzed through the halls of this hallowed building.

The historic Hotel Café Royal in the West End is home of award-winning Afternoon Tea on Regent Street. The grand hotel offers Londoners and visitors to the city the perfect spot for a special occasion or simply to indulge for an afternoon.