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07.03.2024 - 21:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Teeny sandwiches, cakes, scones and a pot of tea - those are the things that immediately spring to mind when I hear the words afternoon tea. Expensive is another one.
Because let's face it, quite often you'll find you're not quite getting your money's worth from the £20 a head, or however much you're shelling out. And when you factor in Mother's Day to any booking, the price usually shoots up even higher.
So when I heard that Marks and Spencer is doing afternoon tea for a tenner a head, I was keen to sample the goods.
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I obviously had to take my own mum along for the occasion and, not wanting to miss out on some nanna-mother-daughter time, my eldest decided to come too. Three generations, each of us with a suitably sweet tooth.
If you're going to put something to the test then you may as well do it properly, and a busy Saturday afternoon at the new Trafford Centre store was probably the ultimate 'if it can go wrong it will go wrong' scenario.
I did think the lunchtime crowd may have died down by the time we arrived about 3pm, but we were lucky to get a table it was that packed.
Ordering was simple enough though. There are screens at the front that allow you to select your food and drink which is brought straight to our table.
I wasn't expecting so much choice for the afternoon tea, but it takes you through the various elements, where you can pick your preferences along the way.
It starts with sandwiches, with a choice of the classic selection, the seafood selection, or the gluten free option with the popular M&S Cheddar Cheese New Yorker.
You then pick from either a fruit scone, a Devon scone or a cheese scone and can even pick what sort of tea you
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