The Grand Café
"Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea!" Noel Coward once said. Well quite. And what better way to celebrate that great English institution than by splashing out on the Grand Café's afternoon tea? It'll cost a fair few shillings, but after munching your way through the smoked salmon and egg mayo sandwiches, scones and handmade truffles, washed down with Darjeeling and -how indulgent -a glass of champagne, you'll probably not mind economizing on dinner - you'll probably be too fat anyway -. Opulently decorated with lashings of gold leaf and elegant palm trees, The Grand Café is just the place to recuperate after a hard day's sightseeing in Oxford or tiring round of croquet.

