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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-time-for-tea-and-cake">TIME FOR TEA (AND CAKE)</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="594" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.24.18.png" alt="Flower Fairies Afternoon Tea " class="wp-image-1503" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.24.18.png 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.24.18-300x178.png 300w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.24.18-768x456.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Flower Fairies Afternoon Tea </figcaption></figure>



Time to raise those pinky fingers! Treat yourself to one of the new floral-themed afternoon teas being rolled across the capital this May, including the <a href="https://afternoontea.co.uk/uk/london/mayfair/park-room-at-grosvenor-house/menus/flower-fairies-afternoon-tea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Flower Fairies Afternoon Tea</a> at Grosvenor House (launches 13 May, £70pp). Tuck into pastries with enchanting names like fairy dust, the lavender fairy, apple blossom bliss and woodland whispers in the Park Room which overlooks Hyde Park. 



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="668" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/chelsea-flower-show-afternoon-tea-001-retouched.jpg" alt="The Goring afternoon tea " class="wp-image-1509" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/chelsea-flower-show-afternoon-tea-001-retouched.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/chelsea-flower-show-afternoon-tea-001-retouched-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/chelsea-flower-show-afternoon-tea-001-retouched-768x513.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Bloomin&#8217; Lovely Afternoon Tea </figcaption></figure>



We&#8217;re also appreciating the <a href="https://www.thegoring.com/the-goring/bloomin-lovely-afternoon-tea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bloomin&#8217; Lovely Afternoon Tea</a> (£80pp) launching at The Goring (available until 26 May) in celebration of Belgravia In Bloom and the Chelsea Flower Show. Served in The Veranda overlooking The Goring Gardens, highlights include blackcurrant and hibiscus scones, strawberry and violet cheesecake, raspberry, blueberry and lemon verbena tartlet; and a chocolate and mint cake. Add a glass of Bollinger Rosé Champagne (we will if you will). 



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="671" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.27.48.png" alt="No 16 Chelsea Flower Show Garden " class="wp-image-1507" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.27.48.png 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.27.48-300x201.png 300w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-14.27.48-768x515.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Chelsea Flower Show Afternoon Tea </figcaption></figure>



Not to be out done, No Sixteen hotel&#8217;s <a href="https://www.firmdalehotels.com/hotels/london/number-sixteen/the-orangery-at-number-sixteen/chelsea-flower-show-afternoon-tea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chelsea Flower Show Afternoon Tea</a> (£50p) includes tasty treats like ricotta and courgette flower vol-au-vents and delicate finger sandwiches followed by floral-inspired desserts, including gooseberry and elderflower pavlova, orange blossom and pistachio mille-feuille, and viola and white chocolate macaron. Yum. Available 20 &#8211; 26 May. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-awesome-exhibitions">AWESOME EXHIBITIONS </h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="534" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Evolution-garden-tile.jpg.thumb_.768.768.jpg" alt="Natural History Museum garden " class="wp-image-1525" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Evolution-garden-tile.jpg.thumb_.768.768.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Evolution-garden-tile.jpg.thumb_.768.768-300x160.jpg 300w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Evolution-garden-tile.jpg.thumb_.768.768-768x410.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Image @ Natural History Museum </figcaption></figure>



Big news! The Natural History Museum in South Ken has announced it&#8217;s launching an <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/galleries-and-museum-map/our-gardens.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Evolution Garden</a> this summer (18 July), complete with dinosaurs. Yep, wannabe paleantolgoists and explorers can follow in the footsteps of early man, including a Jurassic Garden with fossils, herd of grazing Hypsilophodon, ancient ferns and a huge bronze diplodocus. Outside, interesting AND free – summer holiday gold. 



Muddy will be click clacking our way to Tate Britain this month to see new exhibition <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/women-artists-in-britain-1520-1920" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920</a>. (16 May &#8211; 13 Oct). From the Tudors to the First World War, it&#8217;s a fascinating insight spanning 400 years of women&#8217;s journey to be recognised as professional artists, including works by Angelica Kauffman, Julia Margaret Cameron and Gwen John. 



We&#8217;re also keen to see <a href="https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/gardening-bohemia-bloomsbury-women-outdoors/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors</a> at the Gardening Museum on Lambeth Palace Road (15 May &#8211; 29 Sep, £15) which will focus on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they loved. Set to be one of the summer&#8217;s must-see exhibitions, you&#8217;ll discover insights on writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa Bell, whose garden and studio was at nearby Charleston; arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, who presided over Garsington Manor; and garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West and the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. Oh and there&#8217;s a great café there too. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-foodie-news">FOODIE NEWS </h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="500" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Unknown-1-1.jpeg" alt="Mildreds Pimlico " class="wp-image-1535" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Unknown-1-1.jpeg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Unknown-1-1-300x150.jpeg 300w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/Unknown-1-1-768x384.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Image @ Mildreds </figcaption></figure>



Waaaay back when being vegetarian and eating out in London meant having to order a side salad or picking meat out of a pasta dish, Mildreds launched in Soho. Cosy, atmospheric and serving only delicious plant-based food, it felt ahead of its time when it opened in 1988, but now the rest of the capital&#8217;s caught up. In fact so many of us are now veggie and proud Mildreds has expanded, including a shiny new just-opened 120-seater <a href="https://www.mildreds.com/victoria/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mildreds</a> restaurant in Pimlico, where you can chomp on a spinach pea aloo tikki burger to your heart&#8217;s content. What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s also running a fortnightly <a href="https://www.mildreds.com/off-the-books/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">supper club</a> at its Dalston restaurant, May (16 &amp; 30) meals will be inspired by Nikkei cuisine, think fried ginger soya plant chick’n, ginger teriyaki, avocado burnt chilli and cucumber lime salsa in a baby gem cup. Wow. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-making-scents">MAKING SCENTS </h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1020" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/040_230111_FRAGRANCE_HM_CHARLOTTE_ALT_CM_2403__1_.jpg" alt="Charlotte Tilbury fragrance alunch " class="wp-image-1544" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/040_230111_FRAGRANCE_HM_CHARLOTTE_ALT_CM_2403__1_.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/040_230111_FRAGRANCE_HM_CHARLOTTE_ALT_CM_2403__1_-294x300.jpg 294w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2024/05/040_230111_FRAGRANCE_HM_CHARLOTTE_ALT_CM_2403__1_-768x783.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



Darlings, get ready to head east for the arrival of Charlotte Tilbury pop-up <a href="https://www.charlottetilbury.com/uk/content/fragrance-event?_gl=1*1gszsse*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=a7c4035a94f91a57124c656100645177&amp;gclsrc=3p.ds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Future of Fragrance Experience</a> at Protein Studios in Shoreditch (10-19 May). The celebrity favourite make-up artist and entrepreneur will be spritzing away at her immersive experience showcasing six new fragrances based around moods. More Sex caught Muddy&#8217;s eye, which is described as &#8216;powered by emotion-boosting molecules &#8211; sexual accord, velvety musk, leather accord, and sandalwood&#8217;. Blimey. The event&#8217;s free to attend but you&#8217;ll need to book a ticket via the website.

London newsflash! Floral afternoon teas, art exhibitions & more

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