People Places food: afternoon tea cocktails dublin food friends meeting reunion rubgy the lord mayors lounge the shelbourne hotel wine
by ciaranorton
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Tea and sympathy
Quick post because I think I am emotionally scarred following a viewing of The Godfather Part II followed by Scarface within 24 hours. But before I let the bloodshed of organised crime into my celluloid life I was a very respectable girl this weekend, the type who goes to afternoon tea in The Shelbourne.
The tea was in honour of meeting up with two of my greatest and bestest friends who I never get to see because we are TERRIBLE at organising anything that suits everybody. So to celebrate meeting finalmente we went to the Shelbourne and pretended that we are the type of ladies who eat sandwiches without crusts. When we got a little too boisterous for the Lord Mayor’s Lounge (me: “Tara, is there a real-live human playing that piano?”) we adjourned to the bar and missed greeting the returning Irish Rugby team by seconds. Not that we let that dampen any spirits. I couldn’t be without my friends; if only every Saturday was like this.
There were salmon and brown bread delights but we ate them before the camera had time to catch up…..
While a story I had already heard was explained (LOTS of catching up…) I took pictures of the delicious Strawberrytinis (I know…) we ended the afternoon with.
