Afternoon Tea · Cheshire & Manchester

Bloody Luxury Afternoon Tea in Cheshire & Manchester

Cheshire & Manchester

Luxury afternoon tea in Cheshire for a girls' day out

From a Bollinger-and-thermal-garden estate to a Georgian hall with a Rasul chamber, a Champneys country house and Manchester's original grand hotel Tea Room overlooking St Peter's Square, four proper reasons to get dressed up for cake — no garden-centre stands in sight.

Across the North

Luxury afternoon tea for a taste of the Ritz, without leaving the North

Marble, chandeliers and proper grand-hotel service aren't a London exclusive — the North has its own former railway palaces and civic headquarters doing genuine grandeur, no trip south required.