Last Sunday E and I topped off our exhausting shopping efforts at the Upmarket with a visit to the recently opened Koko Black in Claremont.
It was lunchtime and I was a little unsure as to whether we would be able to find anything savoury at a chocolate salon! They luckily had a couple of sandwiches on the menu and we combined those with a Queen of Hearts high tea.
We had a choice of drinks with our high tea. There were so many interesting options on the menu and E went for a chocolate chai. It needed to be strained and was so thick that she could not pass it through the strainer! I was concerned about a sugar overload - I had to run around later in the afternoon - and stayed conservative with a pot of English Breakfast Tea.
Our stack of loveliness had two tiers. The bottom, savoury tier included toasted sandwiches with fillings of roasted vegetable and also pastrami & gruyere, and mini tarts with fillings of tomato as well as leek. The top sweet tier had a selection of five of the sweet treats that tantalised us from the display cabinet. Our selection included a cream filled lamington, creme brulee, lemon tart, chocolate opera cake and an orange tart. My favourite was the creme brulee. It had a nice top that you cracked through to get to the runny vanilla centre. Bliss!
The Queen of Hearts was $37 for two people, including the drinks. We were very impressed with the spread and I thought it was great value for money. It was all very tasty and so well presented. We made sure to bring a few sweet treats home for C! I got in trouble for not bringing him anything home from E's and my visit to the Sherbert Cafe.
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