Where: Buckhead, GA Style: French Bistro Tea Selection: 6 bagged teas Teatimes:Tuesday-Saturday 3-5 Reservations: 24-hour notice Contact: 404-812-9171 Cost:$18 Afternoon Tea Destination Tea Tip: Upon entering the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center, drive towards the rear, to the strip of shops in the lower parking lot, where you’ll find Café Lapin to your right. You may like to request the pretty banquette tucked into a nook at the back of the restaurant for your tea reservation.
Destination Tea Notes: This French bistro serves a decidedly American afternoon tea menu, until dessert, when the petit fours and macarons make their nod to France. While our waiter wasn’t exactly sure of each item’s description upon presenting our tray, he was friendly, attentive and kept our pots replenished with hot water, enjoining us to be at our leisure. We were also grateful to Café Lapin for allowing us to add a friend to our party the morning of our reserved teatime, which understandably cannot always be accommodated.
Le lapin (bunny) mascots watch over simply set café tables.Artwork, mirror and ceramics montages along a lively painted wall
Tea Service
A mini wooden chest of Stash teas awaits us.True to the typical French fashion of taking tea without milk, our individual pots of hot water come with lemon slices. Though we take ours without, surely cream is available upon request.
Scones & Spreads, Savories and Sweets
Et voilà! The tea tray is presented.Served with jam, the homemade cranberry scones were a bit underdone in their centers, but were tasty nonetheless. The banana bread was a major hit.Good form! Bread is sliced thinly and portioned into petite finger sandwiches. The tarragon chicken salad was the favorite, while the pimento cheese struck some of us as sour, and the cucumber sandwiches needed a bit more spread to hold together. Perhaps these were prepared a day early, as the bread seemed slightly stale.Dessert included pistachio and espresso petit fours, macarons, chocolate truffle bites and fruit and nut cookies.
