Langham Afternoon Tea at The Winery - Langham Hotel Auckland

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The Winery - TIFFIN Afternoon Tea

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Your rendezvous with good taste is The Winery

Welcome to the perfect meeting place. This central Auckland bar features luxurious, upholstered high-back chairs and an impressive international beverage list matched by exceptional service in a serene setting.

Sit back and relax with your favourite drink in The Winery lobby bar, where a wide range of light meals, wines and cocktails are served for your pleasure. The Winery is also the location of the daily Tiffin Afternoon Tea experience.

Tiffin at The Langham - an enchanting new afternoon tea ritual
Tiffin at The Langham is the most enchanting way to spend time with friends, family and loved ones with a selection of delicious afternoon tea treats and an extensive range of the world’s finest tea and Champagnes.

Tiffin is the new word that The Langham, Auckland has chosen to best describe the delicacy, decadence and delight of taking one of life's most enchanting pleasures - afternoon tea. To celebrate the launch of Tiffin at The Langham, our expert pastry chefs have created an exquisite new afternoon tea experience that surpasses all other afternoon teas in the land, and takes the afternoon tea experience at the five-star hotel, to an even higher level!

To further complement the Tiffin experience, The Langham is launching two exclusive finest quality teas as blended exclusively by The Langham hotel's international Master Tea Blender, Mr Alex Probyn. These are The Langham Blend and the Palm Court Exotic Blend and have been artfully created especially for Tiffin. Tea connoisseurs will also be able to purchase these gorgeous teas in pretty 80g presentation tins at NZ$24.95 at the hotel and are ideal for gifts.

Tiffin – the ideal celebration to share

There is no finer way to celebrate friendship than the ritual of taking afternoon tea. We can arrange bookings and gift vouchers for an experience that will delight family, friends, colleagues and clients alike. Tiffin at The Langham is served from 12 noon to 4.30pm daily.

Tiffin at The Langham
NZ$36 per adult Monday to Friday
NZ$39.50 per adult Saturday, Sunday and all public holidays
Children aged 5-12 years are half price. Children 4 years of age and under are free of charge.

Champagne Tiffin at The Langham
NZ$61 per adult Monday to Friday
NZ$64.50 per adult Saturday, Sunday and all public holidays

Reservations are recommended. Telephone (09) 379 5132 or email The Winery.

The History of Afternoon Tea

The tradition reputedly started by Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford in the 1840s and first served at The Langham, London in 1865, is perfected every afternoon in the sumptuous surroundings of The Winery.

For the men of 19th century London it was commonplace to enjoy long extensive lunches punctuated with discussions of business and politics. By the 1840s this trend had resulted in evening meals becoming smaller and being served later, usually around 8.30pm in the evening. Women, as a result, were left with a very long break between meals as they waited for their husbands to return home for the evening meal. Enter our heroine, Lady Anna the 7th Duchess of Bedford (1783-1857). Tradition states that it was the Duchess who, finding herself hungry and experiencing a “sinking feeling” in the afternoon, began to have her servants sneak her a pot of tea and a few breadstuffs.

Soon, the Duchess, who was one of Queen Victoria’s ladies-in- waiting, began to invite friends to join her in her rooms at Belvoir Castle for an afternoon meal ofcakes, sandwiches, assorted sweets and, of course, tea. By 1865, The Langham, London, as the first grand hotel of Europe, was also the first to offer 'afternoon tea' the concept had taken hold. This tradition continues today in the form of Tiffin which is served every afternoon at Langham hotels the world over. The Langham, Auckland is delighted to be the home of Tiffin in New Zealand but The Langham, London can lay claim to being the original home of afternoon tea - with a bit of help from the Duchess of Bedford of course.

Reservations
For reservations telephone (09) 379 5132 or email The Winery. Please note if payment is made by credit card a surcharge of 2% applies. Payment by cash or eftpos does not attract the surcharge.