I'm giving the Deq afternoon tea one star. Seating...

I'm giving the Deq afternoon tea one star. Seating promptly started at 3pm, tea arrived first but we didn't get our first dish until 3:30. There are three rounds of dishes, the quiche, the savories then the desssets. The quiches were good, the rest of the savories were alright, most tasted stale. The sweets were literally inedible, it was either too sweet, sour (arguably subjective) or stale (objective). Service was extremely slow even though there were only a handful of small tables seated, people who arrived after us even left before us. We got our dessert dish at 4:40pm when our tea was already cold and close to the end of the seating time which was 5pm. For the amount paid and the reputation of the hotel and its restaurants, the quality in food was absent and service extremely poor. I will not go there again. Not commenting on how the rest of the hotel operates, just the afternoon tea.