Enjoy a Festive Afternoon Tea in 2025

Enjoy the Christmas Carol Festive Afternoon Tea at The Angel - a nod to Dickens' many stays at The Angel and the coching inn's appearance in The Pickwick Papers.

This festive Afternoon Tea includes a selection of savouries, warm scones with homemade jam and clotted cream and sweet treats, served in their relaxing lounge.

From Mrs Cratchit's mince pie to Lady Clutterbuck's croquette (slow cooked lamb) there are lots of tasty savouries – the menu encompasses many fictitious characters featured in Dickens’ novels. For sweets there is Bob's Bailey's Maderia Cake, Charles' white chocolate and cherry cheesecake and Fezziwig's Basket (brandy gingersnap) and more!

From ‘Butter fingers’ to ‘Hot Sausage and Mustard’ to Victoria sponge and ‘‘Cold Jelly & Custard” – the menu encompasses many fictitious characters featured in Dickens’ novels.

£35 per person or try Tiny Tim's Tipsy Tea for £45 per person.

Book now on The Angel website.

Join Procopio's Pantry from the December 3 to December 21 for their Christmas Afternoon Tea, available by pre-booking.

With a tasty menu featuring cauliflower cheese soup, pigs in blankets sausage roll, smoked salmon pate, chilli cheese scone and sweet treats including gingerbread, Black Forest chocolate brownie and victoria sponge you won't leave Bury St Edmunds hungry!

You can enjoy all of this and more for £26.99 per person, with a £5 deposit required to confirm the booking.

Visit their website, message them on social media, call 01284 750028 or pop in and book.

Harriets Festive Afternoon Teas are available now!

Whether you’re catching up with old friends, celebrating your book club’s Christmas gathering, planning a special treat for grandparents, or arranging a festive office get-together, they'd love to welcome you this season.

Your tea stand will be brimming with all the seasonal favourites:
 a selection of delicate finger sandwiches
, a tempting patisserie selection of festive cakes and mini treats
, freshly baked scones with Cornish clotted cream and Harriets’ strawberry jam — all served with their Special Blend Tea or freshly brewed Blended Coffee.

And for the little ones, the Children’s Afternoon Tea makes their visit every bit as magical.


Book your table now, because the countdown to Christmas tastes even better with a guaranteed table full of scones, cake and tea shared together!

Email burystedmunds@harrietscafetearooms.co.uk or call 01284 756256 to book.

Lotties Festive Afternoon Tea Has Now Dropped!

They've Gone Extra This Year With Warm Waffle Bites Dipped In Hot Chocolate & Churros In Dulche De Leche. It’s Giving Festive Winter Vibes.

£21 per person.

Book Your Slot Now at Lotties website.

Indulge in the festive magic with The Priory Hotel's Festive Afternoon Tea, perfect for creating unforgettable moments with loved ones this Christmas.

Daily Throughout December!

Afternoon Tea £15.95

Sparkling Afternoon Tea £21.95

Book at The Priory Hotel website.

Indulge in festive magic with Ravenwood Hall's Festive Afternoon Tea — perfect for creating unforgettable moments with loved ones this Christmas.

Tuck into a selection of finger sandwiches including Suffolk ham & egg mayo, smoked salmon & chive cream cheese, brie, cranberry & rocket, and butter roast turkey & chestnut stuffing. Followed by sweet treats such as brandy mince pies, traditional stollen cake, and Baileys & hazelnut cream eclairs. Topped off with blueberry & cinnamon orange scones.

Available daily throughout December.

Afternoon Tea £24.00

Sparkling Afternoon Tea £31.50

Click here to book.

From Wednesday 19th November to 23 December, The Folk Cafe in Fornham St Martin just outside Bury St Edmunds is offering their Folk Festive Afternoon Tea.

Included in the Folk Festive Afternoon Tea: A selection of sandwiches, cranberry scone with clotted cream and Folk compote, Folk Christmas sausage roll, half a large Folk scotch egg, mince pie, gingerbread cookie and tea, coffee or soft drink.

The afternoon tea can be adapted to be vegetarian and suit other dietary needs, please add this to your notes on your order.

£30 per person. Afternoon teas are served between 2-4pm from Wednesday to Saturday.

To book visit The Folk Cafe website.

For large bookings and any other queries, please email the team on hello@folksuffolk.com.

Enjoy a very special Christmas Afternoon Tea at The Swan Lavenham with their brand new unique English Fine Bone China afternoon tea crockery - a collaboration with local artist and illustrator Lienne Birch, owner of Posy.

The new range - including teacups, saucers, teapots, serving plates and the plates used on The Swan’s afternoon tea stands - has been produced by Roy Kirkham & Co., one of the UK’s last remaining fine bone China specialists in Stoke-on-Trent. Known for crafting bespoke ceramics for Liberty of London, Buckingham Palace and the Royal Opera House, the collaboration brings together three pillars of British design: heritage, artistry and craftsmanship. Each piece of crockery is decorated with hand-drawn illustrations inspired by centuries of stories woven into the fabric of The Swan and the building’s history.

These include a ball of wool - honouring Lavenham’s medieval prosperity as one of England’s wealthiest wool towns, and the history of The Swan’s own Wool Hall, Tudor slipper - referencing the 550-year-old lady’s shoes discovered in The Swan’s walls, placed for good luck during construction and “487” and RAF insignia - a tribute to the 487th Bombardment Group of the US 8th Air Force and the RAF servicemen who frequented the Airmen’s Bar during World War II. Sgraffito details - based on the 15th-century wall markings preserved in Room 47, the Fleur-de-Lys - an emblem found on The Swan’s exterior and the Glass Boot - celebrating the legendary “Boot Record” drinking challenge of WWII servicemen are also preserved in the China designs. And finally, there is a nod to the 9–5 clock – linked to Dolly Parton, who stayed at The Swan in the 1980s and described her visit as “one of the best times of her life” and the Bell and the Piano - echoing the treasured tenor bells and the musical traditions that have long lived in the building’s spaces.

Christmas Afternoon Tea is available for £30 per person, Prosecco Afternoon Tea is £39pp, includes a glass of Prosecco per person, and Champagne Afternoon Tea is £47pp, which includes a glass of Moet Champagne.

Book now at The Swan at Lavenham website.

Bedford Lodge Hotel & Spa's Festive Afternoon Tea menu is back for 2025.

Available everyday throughout December, this afternoon tea menu has a subtle festive twist. Indulge in a section of traditional finger sandwiches including Turkey & Cranberry Mayonnaise on Granary, before enjoying our home made Newmarket Sausage, Sage and Bacon Roll and Pumpkin Arancini. Also included are our delicious home made scones served warm with Tiptree Strawberry Jam, Clotted Cream and Lemon Curd, along with a festive selection of cakes including White Chocolate & Grapefruit Bauble, Mulled Wine Trifle and Stollen, plus more sweet treats.

Afternoon tea can be enjoyed in our two AA rosette Squires Restaurant or in our Roxana Bar by our roaring log fire.

Click here to book.

£40.00 per person including a selection of teas or cafetière coffee.

Why not really make an occasion of it and upgrade to Champagne Afternoon Tea £52.00 per person including a glass of Billecart-Salmon Champagne.

This can be booked alongside your Afternoon Tea by using the ‘Book A Table’ button at the top of the page.

A deposit of £20 per person is required at the time of booking.

For groups of 10 or more call our Events Coordinator on 01638 663175 or email conference@bedfordlodgehotel.co.uk