I took my mum for the M&S Mother's Day afternoon tea, what we got for a tenner was incredible
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTeeny sandwiches, cakes, scones and a pot of tea - those are the things that immediately spring to mind when I hear the words afternoon tea.
Expensive is another one. Because let's face it, quite often you'll find you're not quite getting your money's worth from the £20 a head, or however much you're shelling out.
And when you factor in Mother's Day to any booking, the price usually shoots up even higher. So when I heard that Marks and Spencer is doing afternoon tea for a tenner a head, I was keen to sample the goods. Join our FREE Manchester Family WhatsApp group by clicking here I obviously had to take my own mum along for the occasion and, not wanting to miss out on some nanna-mother-daughter time, my eldest decided to come too.
Three generations, each of us with a suitably sweet tooth. If you're going to put something to the test then you may as well do it properly, and a busy Saturday afternoon at the new Trafford Centre store was probably the ultimate 'if it can go wrong it will go wrong' scenario.
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