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| Paint job echoing Louis' Blue and Gold Rolls Royce |
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| The window flocks them in |
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| Step this way |
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| Essential Bits and Bobs |
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| Dress Code |
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| Inner Sanctum |
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| Untouched Beauty |
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| Sugar Lump Mountain |
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| Something from the Hot Plate Sir ? |
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| Hand Ledger |
# 17 Dancing Queen
So You Like Cake ?
Well eat this.
There is a secret gem of a Hungarian tea room nestled in the leafy throws of Hampstead village, who serve cake on tray stilts as if Cake as we know it has gone out of fashion.
Walk on in and take a pew in a beautifully preserved rich wood panelled room with Chesterfield style leather seating and watch the action unfold before you. Aprons shuffle behind clandestine theatre-esque velvet curtains and the sense of concealment sets the tone for a show stopping spectacular.
Like a mini stage set, fellow diners are mesmerising - some in a decidedly geriatric but sharp as a button fashion - busily discussing the topics of the day.
When the cakes arrive a discernible hush pings around the room and all eyes are on the lucky table. The choice of cake is so extensive and resplendent you can see the panic set in, as punters grapple with their taste-buds trying to make the final decision.
Washed down with a cuppa served in the queens own silver, and poured into floral patterned bone china, it really doesn't get any better than this.
Surprisingly in such a beautiful tea house, in such an affluent borough you might expect hefty prices, you couldn't be more mistaken, as orders are boxed and bowed for less than the five shillings you might find in the Artful Dodger's silk purse.
Of course like any good fish and chip shop it is not the price that wins the day but the steady flow of customers who provide rich reward to any savvy business; as can be seen by the Louis gold and blue Rolls Royce parked outside whose spray job mirrors the facade of the tea room. Nice touch.
It can get chock-a-block so pick your time to visit this unique cake emporium carefully.
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