Romantic dates, Uncategorized OBSERVATORY HOTEL HIGH TEA 30 July 2005

Chris and I had Part 1 of our 5th Anniversary today. Part 2 comes on Thursday, with Tetsuya’s πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™

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 πŸ˜›


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 πŸ˜›

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 πŸ˜› 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 πŸ™‚

Let’s Chat!




Let's Chat!

The first time I experienced high tea was when I was in Malaysia. It doesn’t seem to be popular in Canada. I could only find one hotel in Edmonton that serves afternoon tea and they only do it during the summer months. Their last day this year is September 4. We move there on the first – I should make a reservation!

High tea isn’t too popular here either.. not like it is in London anyway. I love it though, what better way to spend your afternoon than eating and drinking? πŸ˜‰

The first time I experienced high tea was when I was in Malaysia. It doesn’t seem to be popular in Canada. I could only find one hotel in Edmonton that serves afternoon tea and they only do it during the summer months. Their last day this year is September 4. We move there on the first – I should make a reservation!

High tea isn’t too popular here either.. not like it is in London anyway. I love it though, what better way to spend your afternoon than eating and drinking? πŸ˜‰

The hotel was just so pretty.. really want to try out their spa next time, we had a peek in there and it looked divine πŸ™‚

Happy Anniversary!!!

We have Lean Cuisine in the US, but not that one! I bet it would rock to visit one of Australia’s supermarkets. πŸ™‚

The scones and desserts look yummy. But, I agree, the hug is always best. And the least calories. πŸ™‚

Congrats again!

Hehe nooo US supermarkets are so much fun! Japanese ones are the best though, I could stay there for hours :)~

The hotel was just so pretty.. really want to try out their spa next time, we had a peek in there and it looked divine πŸ™‚

Happy Anniversary!!!

We have Lean Cuisine in the US, but not that one! I bet it would rock to visit one of Australia’s supermarkets. πŸ™‚

The scones and desserts look yummy. But, I agree, the hug is always best. And the least calories. πŸ™‚

Congrats again!

Hehe nooo US supermarkets are so much fun! Japanese ones are the best though, I could stay there for hours :)~