Brian H

Review of The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald

This is my wife and I and mine first time at the F...

This is my wife and I and mine first time at the Fairmont hotel McDonald in the Harvest Room for the Royal Afternoon Tea . There were eight people in our party and we were served by Natalie. She was very attentive and sociable which made the tea more enjoyable. She even took the time and offered and took pictures of us.

The first thing to decide was the loose leaf tea. You had a choice of ten teas with some of them having an extra charge between two and $10. I went with the Ontario Ice Wine tea because I usually enjoy white tea. I did not hear anybody complain at our table about the choice of tea they picked.

Our palette was cleansed with blood orange sorbet with basil. We had one vegan person among us and then must be something in this sorbet since she was given a mango sorbet. I asked her later and she said she was quite satisfied with the selections she had as a vegan.

A high tea would not be a high tea without scones. We had apricot, rosemary and classic scones. They were served with Devonshire cream and mixed berry compote. They were delicious and Natalie refilled the compote and the cream as required.

We next had traditional finger sandwiches and I must say that not one of them did I disliked. The sandwiches included organic egg salad, coronation chicken with raisins and salmon to name just a few.

By the time we began on the selection of desserts several of us could not finish the desserts. In fact I took a few desserts home. There were raspberry coconut trifle, chocolate hazelnut beignet, honey lavender cheesecake, whiskey orange truffle and finally Dulce de Ameche tart.

Would I come again? Based on the quality of the food and the service I will most definitely come again!