Do you have a daughter who is getting to the age where she is looking for something beyond a Princess character meal?  Are you meeting a friend for quiet conversation?  Do you need to steal a quiet moment for yourself, away from the parks?  The Garden View Tea is for you!

 

 

 The menu offers a selection of tea services, depending on how much and the type of food you’d like.  Teas are also available individually, or a la carte.  For children, there is the Mrs. Potts tea with hot chocolate.  My daughter ordered the Mrs. Potts tea ($13.00), and our server suggested that she pick her tea sandwiches (choices are: tuna salad, ham and cheese and PBJ on white bread) so she’d get exactly what she wanted.  I didn’t individualize my sandwich order for the Grand Tea ($35.00).  When the sandwiches arrived, I saw that one of the sandwiches was egg salad which is not one of my favorites.  I quietly remarked this to my daughter, and the server took away the egg salad, and brought me back a sandwich of my choosing.  Very nice service, indeed!

 

The service is beautifully served, in courses.  The tea pots were covered in rich burgundy velvet tea cozies, embroidered with Grand Floridian name in gold.  The sandwiches were of a generous size and quantity, and delicious. My Grand Tea also included a properly made scone and a jam tart. The Mrs. Potts tea included a choice of 2 pastries (yes, 2!) from the pastry tray.  Picking just 2 was difficult, because they were all so incredible.  In the end, my daughter chose the cream puff swan, filled with vanilla mousse custard, and the chocolate covered éclair.

 

 

We were celebrating my daughter’s birthday, and she was presented with a single long stemmed pink rose when we left.  Our server told us that these roses are from the gardens of the Grand Floridian, and are a special variety.  At the exit of the restaurant, Mrs. Potts’ image is set in marble in the floor of the mail walkway of the Grand Floridian Hotel.  Chip is also immortalized nearby.