York Option: Afternoon Tea in a Railway Carriage
Overview
Join us for a fabulous afternoon tea in a beautifully restored railway carriage, with soup, a selection of home-made sandwiches, fruit scone with preserve & cream and delicious cakes. All served with your choice from a wide selection of loose leaf teas. The scones are baked to a traditional Yorkshire recipe and served with delicious vanilla-infused cream as well as homemade preserve.
It's a wonderful setting for a delicious afternoon tea. A gluten free tea is available on request.
This event is an optional extra on the York Celebration Weekend, but open to anyone.
Includes
Luxury afternoon tea with soup, a selection of sandwiches, traditional cakes and pastries, scones with clotted cream and jam, refillable tea.
Location & Itinerary
Please note that the menu changes seasonally, and may vary slightly but will be similar to this...
Menu
Minted pea and watercress soup, served with a quail's egg
Red Leicester and cherry tomato tartlet
Finger sandwiches:
Glazed ham with piccalilli
Cucumber with chive cream cheese
Hot smoked salmon with an asparagus purée
Scone baked to a traditional Yorkshire recipe, served with vanilla infused cream and homemade berry preserve
Blood orange posset
White chocolate and raspberry blondie
Lemon tart
Yorkshire Gold tea bread
Banoffee mousse in a chocolate cup
Your choice of tea
Vegetarian or gluten free option available on request. We cannot guarantee that products are free from nuts or traces of nuts.
Sorry, but there is no wheelchair access to the carriage.
Meet at 2pm at the steps up to Countess of York. The Countess of York is within the National Railway Museum in the outside area next to The Great Hall. If arriving at the main entrance to the museum (free entry), turn right down the steps after passing the welcome desk, under the tunnel and then up the steps to where the Countess of York carriage stands outdoors.
If you are arriving by car it is easier to come into the museum by the entrance opposite the car park and walk through The Great Hall and take the exit near to the Eurostar.
The museum is behind York Station, a short walk from the city centre in square AA4 of the York City Map.
If you are coming in for the day, the easiest way to get there is by rail.
If driving, you can use the museum's visitor car park on Leeman Road. Do not pay for parking but let your host know when you arrive at the restaurant carriage that you have parked there and you will be given a ticket for free parking.
Host & Everything Else
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