Heysen Road, Hahndorf, hansheysen.com.au, open daily except Mondays 10am-4om, adults $10, students $5, under-14s free Jane Howard, culture journalist Coffee Branch serves the best coffee in Adelaide (on ice, if you need it in summer) and, if you get there early enough in the morning, beautiful pastries.
Afternoon tea is a favourite past-time of Hong Kong women, so grab your girlfriends, chat over cups of tea and splurge on some beautiful pastries that taste even better than they look.
(I know pig fat makes a beautiful, flaky pastry, but it seems an odd ingredient in something more bready like a scone).
One with zest and flourish, eating beautiful food, expecting pastry to be topped with a fanned-out apricot.
The ample platter, ordered the night before with a tag on the door, included a beautiful basket of pastries, freshly squeezed orange juice and a fruity yogurt and granola parfait.
This Japanese tea salon serves beautiful, precisely made pastries, like zangetsu, a soft ginger-flavored pancake folded over a filling of sweetened azuki bean paste, etched with a pattern of chrysanthemum petals.
This tea salon has a menu of unusual Japanese dishes, but the highlights are the beautiful, meticulously fashioned pastries, like zangetsu, a soft ginger-flavored pancake folded over a filling of sweetened azuki bean paste, etched with a pattern of chrysanthemum petals.
The pastries are up-to-date French and are excellent: this style of pastry, while beautiful, can be insipid, but these were delicious.
But the tarte tatin for two that it accompanies is a beautiful thing, all chewy caramelised pastry, and apples that quiver and fall apart when nudged with a spoon.
Many boys are taught not to cry, but you both know that it can make you feel better, right?" They nodded, giant flakes of pastry covering their beautiful compassionate faces, the table, their books, the floor.
