Saturday at Rochelle Adonis.

Saturday the 14th of August was one of the busiest days that we have had at Rochelle Adonis, in a long time. We are sure that this was the result of the beautiful weather and the smell of chocolate brownies and high tea goodies wafting from the kitchen.

We had over 40 people in for high tea, plus all our orders and we had to serve all of you that wanted to grab some takeaway!! It was very exciting and we loved every minute.

One of the groups to come in today were celebrating a birthday.. Su (seated/middle) chose our store to celebrate her birthday so we put our best on for her....

This included tropical trifle, nougat ice cream and chocolate slice, tangello puddings, cucumber sandwiches, roast vegetable and brie galettes and a selection of other sweeties.

The girls brought champagne with them, which accompanied all of the food beautifully.

Pineapple petit fours, chocolate almond genoise slice, nougat and chocolate slice

Tropical trifle and chocolate almond genoise slice

Scrumptious cucumber sandwiches

Tangello pudding pudding with tangello sorbet and candied oranges

Roast vegetable galette with brie

 

As the afternoon continued on, more people stopped by for lunch and to pick up cakes and confections. We had three orders for people that were having brunches on sunday, here is a selection of the goodies that we sent home with them...

 

 and finally... had two dark signature cakes, with the galaxy finish for two very lucky birthday people...

 

So by the time that 4pm came around and we shut the doors, counted the empty champagne bottles (five), cleaned out the fridges and stopped for a minute to reflect on the day we were all so exhausted. However we still had one very important thing to celebrate ourselves. Congratulation to Jade, who has completed the first and arguable one of the hardest parts of her apprenticeship... (sticking out the first three months)

We are now lucky enough to have her on board for the next two years. Congratulations again Jade on making it this far, we look forward to seeing all the wonderful things that you are going to achieve in your career.. 

We leave you with three more bottles to add to the tally..

We hope that you had a great weekend.....

The origins of High Tea

The tradition of High Tea began in the mid 1700s and was originally an afternoon meal for the workingman. It was taken standing up or sitting on high stools, hence the term ‘high’.

Originally tea was served with cakes, scones and even cheese on toast. Slowly this afternoon meal became an important event on the social calendars of ladies and gentlemen, rather than a meal for the workingman.

The tradition began to evolve and even serve a practical purpose. It allowed the upper classes to have a substantial meal before an evening of parlour games or attending the theatre.

It has been suggested that at around this time, John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, devised the idea of placing meat and other fillings between two slices of bread and the cucumber sandwich was born.

With great thanks to the British Empire the tradition of High Tea has spread around the world with some of the most famous places to have high tea being at the Ritz in London and in Paris at Mariage Frères in the Marais and Laduree.

Here at Rochelle Adonis we have evolved the high tea even further, creating inspired occasions four days a week. We believe that in life, people are busy and stressed enough without adding structure and pressure to something such as 'tea'. We want our customers to take time out of their daily ritual to enjoy the beauty and simplicity of a high tea at Rochelle Adonis. We too attempt to escape from the 'norm' as we are bound by our production requirements in all other aspects of the business. The high tea is a chance for our kitchen to create something that they would love to see and eat. Its a chance for all involved to break away from all that we know and move towards what we dream about.

If you would like to find out more, or make a booking. Please call 9227 0007.

To all of you that are coming in tomorrow, we look forward to meeting you...

*information in part, courtesy of the Carrington NSW.