heavenly bodies

 Made it to the MET 2018 costume exhibit again this year.  We only saw the 5th avenue MET exhibit  but it was pretty wonderful as usual.

The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.

Serving as the cornerstone of the exhibition, papal robes and accessories from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen outside The Vatican, are on view in the Anna Wintour Costume Center. Fashions from the early twentieth century to the present are shown in the Byzantine and medieval galleries, part of the Robert Lehman Wing, and at The Met Cloisters.

M&S afternoon tea

  An unplanned tea can sometimes be the best tea or at least a pleasant surprise.  We went into a Marks & Spencer store for eyeglass cleaner, which led to us going down to the food hall to get the funky flavored potato chips that I love to eat and then somehow ended up sitting down to afternoon tea.  I'll  have to remember this for future trips as my go to place for a good affordable afternoon tea.  

London - Afternoon tea - photo

As for new afternoon tea destination goal,  I went with the The Halken Bar,  a modern spin on the traditional afternoon tea. Amazing! Spectacular! out of this world!  Everything was so good on a much higher level than anything we've ever had before.  Hart to go back to traditional afternoon tea after this experience. 

Catalan cream, Passion fruit cake, ametsa cheesecake, mango torrija

charcoal smoked pineapple, churro and beet flakes

Txangurro in a shell

 

tomato and raspberry soup, garlic pintxo,  Txangurro in a shell ,egg and waffle 

txistorra granary sandwich

back to sketch

My goal is to hit at least one new afternoon tea destination on each visit to Great Britain.  Yet, I found myself back at Sketch.  

 infamous bathroom pods