Le Meurice Tea - Everything's Better In Paris (Paris Restaurant Review No. 6)

We became great fans of afternoon tea on our recent trip to Europe. After having 3 teas in London that we really liked, we felt we needed to try one in Paris, so we picked the one in our hotel, Le Meurice. Given how much more we liked Paris than London, it should come as no surprise that even though London is the tea capital of the world, we liked the tea at Le Meurice better than any we tried in London.

Steve likes the non-tea part of teas the best, but he found his lemon tea to be tolerable, which is a good compliment for him. Lisa had french breakfast tea, which she had never even heard of, but she really liked its flavor, which had a hint of chocolate.

Enough of the irrelevancies, though. The keys to tea for us are the finger sandwiches and the scones. Here the sandwiches were uniformly great. We particularly liked the salmon and were happy that there were no egg sandwiches as there were for us to ignore in London. We were wondering how good the scones would be here, since one would think scones are quintessentially British. However, as with everything else, we loved these scones. They were very large and had an excellent flavor. And our favorite, the clotted cream (which we loved even after we later found out it isn't pasteurized), was again better here than anywhere in London.

The pastries had good variety and were generally ok, but after the tremendous scones, which we had second helpings of, we really didn't have much room for pastry anyway.

If you go to Paris and like afternoon tea at all, or even think you might, Le Meurice is a must try.

The bathrooms were very nice, as would be expected with luxury hotel bathrooms. They were just short of perfect.

Tea for two (and two for tea) was 60 euros and worth every penny.

Our ratings for Le Meurice Tea 228 rue de Rivoli, Paris:

9 of 10 Teaspoons 2.5 of 3 Bathroom Brushes