So, what’s Teddy Bear tea you could be questioning? It has grow to be an annual vacation custom in San Francisco, the place households are invited to collect for Teddy Bear Tea within the winter wonderland of The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom. While kids take pleasure in a particular tea expertise of sizzling chocolate, scones, teddy bear candy treats, and diverse sandwiches, they’re entertained and engaged with a vigorous vacation present carried out by an animated elf and vacation characters that includes sing-a-longs, skits and storytelling. And, as you enter the ballroom, Christmas Trees line the sides in addition to vacation decorations and an enormous sized teddy bar that greets you as you get off the elevator.
It’s a enjoyable occasion, particularly with youngsters in tow, for it truly is a phenomenal expertise for youths to expertise. It is vigorous and animated and a possibility for youths to interact with different youngsters, all in a pageant vacation environment.
As for the menu? For youngsters, they’ve egg and English cucumber sandwiches and a grape and berry fruit cup in addition to cookies, brownies, cannoli and berry cheesecake. The adults menu is a little more decadent. Their savory menu included a Classic Egg Salad sandwich with avocado aioli and fried shallots on wheat bread, Lemon Cucumber with roasted pepper feta, kalamata olives and mint, a French Onion tart with creme fraiche, thyme and aged parmesan, smoked salmon mousse with wild Alaska Salmon Roe, cornichons and dill on rye bread and Tuscan Prosciutto with goat cheese, lamp chopper and winter spiced apple butter on brioche bread. Yum, proper?
For sweets, that they had cinnamon scones with lemon curd and Devonshire cream, Red Velvet Tea Cake with a cream cheese frosting (one among my favorites), Chocolate Caramel Tart, French Macaron and a Raspberry Bear Claw. It was all so divine. Additionally, they provide gluten free and vegan choices as properly.
Below is a enjoyable video sequence on our expertise. For extra data, together with the best way to reserve for the following season, go to the Ritz Carlton San Francisco occasions web page.