To celebrate the festive season, Ugly Butterfly are offering an special Winter Afternoon Tea, available from 3rd - 31st December 2024.

Ugly Butterfly is an award-winning fine dining restaurant and bar located in the idyllic Carbis Bay, with floor-to-ceiling glass windows that offer stunning, panoramic views of the Cornish coastline. Adam’s Afternoon Tea celebrates the history and tradition of the iconic British Afternoon Tea, whilst maintaining Ugly Butterfly’s ethos of celebrating the very best of Cornish produce and reflecting the sustainable philosophy, for which the restaurant has become known. The Afternoon Tea is served in the Ugly Butterfly bar from Wednesday – Sunday (12pm – 5pm).

It includes selection of sandwiches, savouries, and sweets that all use ingredients from local suppliers. Alongside a selection of sandwiches that evoke traditional Festive nostalgia, there are savouries that include the likes of ‘Turkey & cranberry’, and 'Sage and onion sausage roll.'

Naturally, no Afternoon Tea is complete without a scone and the Ugly Butterfly tea includes Cranberry & orange scones, baked fresh in-house every day, served with Trewithen clotted cream and Apple & rum jam.

The sweet selection is equally as show-stopping, with treats such as, ‘Chestnut, sea salt biscuit’,  ‘“Ginger, nutmeg cheesecake’ and ‘White chocolate, cranberry, vanilla Lemon pie.'

The Afternoon Tea is accompanied by a selection of teas from Tregothnan Tea, based on the Roseland Peninsula, who planted the very first tea fields in the UK on the Tregothnan Estate which has been maintained by the same family since the 1300’s. There’s a varied selection of bubbles on offer for those who opt for the Champagne Afternoon Tea, from Polgoon Seyval Blanc, Cornwall, to Taittinger Prélude Grand Cru, Champagne, and Krug Grand Cuvee Brut, Champagne. For guests looking to make it a real celebration, there’s also an option to add free-flowing bubbles to the experience.

Afternoon Tea starts at £45pp