Step into Fortnum & Mason, London's opulent 18th-century department store, and get lost in gourmet groceries, exquisite teas, and lavish hampers.
"This vast department store and Piccadilly institution has an entire floor devoted to tea, and an ever-enticing food hall filled with fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and crustacea, delicatessen delicacies, baked goods, pantry provisions, and of course their famous hampers. Make it past the lower floors and Fortnum’s delivers the complete spectrum of luxury goods. Their jewellery department in particular hosts the British Fashion Council’s Rock Vault, an initiative that brings together pieces from the most innovative in the industry. There’s also a champagne bar, two restaurants, ice cream parlour and vault for private dinners. Notoriously, Fortnum’s is also simply known as ‘the grocers to the Queen’." - dn&co.
"A historic venue offering a highly civilized parade of delicate sandwiches, glossy pastries, and scones served alongside clouds of clotted cream and preserves and fat pots of tea."
"This one ticks all four boxes, a Jubilee-edition cookie tin in the shape of a merry-go-round that is also a rotating music box, with strawberries-and-cream shortbread inside. This is plainly a rip-off of a non-Jubilee product from Fortnum & Mason, but it’s also much less expensive." - Rachel P. Kreiter
"High Tea at Fortnum & Mason In the shadow of Buckingham Palace lies Fortnum & Mason, the department store with a royal warrant famed for its loose-leaf tea, luxury picnic hampers and sweet treats, including an excellent selection of macarons. You can buy all of these inside the store, as well as browse the gentlemen’s department,and cast your eyes up to the spectacular atrium, but the real highlight of a trip here is the afternoon tea, served in a gilded Diamond Jubileee TeaSalon, opened in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. An accompanying piano player sets the tone: at high tea, you can expect a charming display of finger sandwiches, individual pastries and cakesfrom the cake carriage, and scones served with Somerset clotted cream and Fortnum’s lemon curd. The extensive champagne list is also not to be ignored."
"Fortnum & Mason, St Jamess. This vast department store and Piccadilly institution has an entire floor devoted to tea, and an ever-enticing food hall filled with fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and crustacea, delicatessen delicacies, baked goods, pantry provisions, and of course their famous hampers. Make it past the lower floors and Fortnum’s delivers the complete spectrum of luxury goods. Their jewellery department in particular hosts the British Fashion Council’s Rock Vault, an initiative that brings together pieces from the most innovative in the industry. There’s also a champagne bar, two restaurants, ice cream parlour and vault for private dinners. Notoriously, Fortnum’s is also simply known as ‘the grocers to the Queen’."
