High Tea now offered at Angel's Cafe in Ferndale
Angel's Café at 214 West Nine Mile offers a great lunch menu that features chicken, vegan, and pasta dishes as well as entrée salads. Their dinner menu includes chicken, fish, vegan, and pasta dishes and their great accompanying salads. Think Florentine Cheese Ravioli In Bechamela Sauce and you will soon be hungry.
Angel's Café is also serving High Tea from 1 pm until 5 pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays. You will need an advanced reservations for the tea service that includes very proper hot and cold finger food as well as an assortment of soothing teas. The price is $16.95, and gift certificates are available.
The café is regularly open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 am until 3 pm, and from 5 pm until 8 pm. Sunday and Monday are reserved for private parties.
Click here for a map. Additional parking is available behind the building north of Nine Mile in the Ferndale Municipal parking lot off Withington Street.
What to try your own High Tea? Here is a collection of recipes for scones to get you started.
Scones from Joy of Cooking
Scones from Betty Crocker
Scones and biscuits from Bed and Breakfast Inns
Scones from Cooks.com
Oatmeal scones from Epicurious
More info: Purists may want to explain that there is a difference between
Afternoon Tea (which may include pastries, light sandwiches, and scones) and
High Tea (which generally includes a dinner menu). But, this really isn't England, and American traditions are rather unique.
Click here to learn more about Low and High Tea. You can also learn the proper way to hold the teacup, why you would add milk and not cream, and how to politely stir your tea.