Unfortunately visited today with a friend for the ...

Unfortunately visited today with a friend for the afternoon tea for her special birthday. After being highly recommended by a few people and never having been before I had high expectations. On arrival we waited to be attended to and another group came in and all but 1 went straight outside. He was dealt with before us and they encouraged us to stay inside. But being a sunny, dry day we sat outside. The other party not only were given drinks before us but also had their food before we even received a drink. We waited for 3/4 hr to have any attention at all. When we finally received the food it was very disappointing. Especially the cakes only 1 out of 5 was enjoyable. We didn't complain because we had already made comments about the time we had to wait. It was disappointing because it was something we were looking forward to and my first outing since the start of lockdown. Excuses were made about short staffing........