Halloween ARTea

We continued our Halloween themed weekend today as we headed into Soho to check out the Newburgh Quarter of Curiosity.

We'd heard the street would be filled with spooky treats and shops, including a pop-up flower shop selling Halloween flowers.

The only scary thing about the shop was the lady working who reluctantly opened the door when I asked if they were open and told us all the flowers were dead.

We headed to Choccywoccydoodah instead to check out the gorgeous chocolate skulls and Halloween treats.

Four Winters had created a Dark Serve ice cream especially for Halloween.

The Dark Serve consisted of charcoal chocolate liquid nitrogen ice cream blended with toffee apple, cookies and popping candy, topped with candy floss cobwebs, shards of black glitter, blood-red raspberry sauce and a meringue ghost and gravestone from the Meringue Girls.

Topshop on Oxford Street had been decorated like Hawkins High to celebrate the release of their new Stranger Things collection.

There was a chance to test out our telekinetic ability by moving a coke can with our minds in the shop window.

It was pretty scary being in the window in front of the crowd outside, but not as scary as the actor playing the scientist who was eerily convincing.

I went first and managed to move the can, so I filmed Tom's attempt thinking that everyone would be able to make it move, but sadly he didn't have the power.

The girl after him did manage to move it.

As a treat, we went for a Halloween ARTea afternoon tea at the Royal Lancaster.

The windows in the dining room had been blacked out with eerie music, candles and horror movies playing in the background.

The menu was inspired by horror movies and when the smoke cleared, a black & white afternoon tea appeared.

The sandwiches matched the black & white theme with fillings like halibut with caviar, massacred egg mayonnaise and cucumber with tapanade.

There were also mini black vegetarian Scotch eggs and sushi rolls wrapped in blackened seaweed.

Next our scones were served with Psycho marbled lollipops.

There were dark chocolate and coconut scones topped with blood clotted cream.

For dessert, there were orange & white chocolate macarons, Night of the Living tarts, Black Sunday Battenbergs and Haunted Black Forest mousse.