Operation Mincemeat, A Tea Worth Keeping Secret
In The Drawing Room – once the quiet heart of the Old War Office – a new afternoon tea unfolds, drawn from one of the most daring deceptions of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat fooled an enemy and helped turn the course of history. Now its story is told the only way a great secret should be: slowly, and over tea.
Each cake draws on the people, places and flavours of 1943 – Sicily, Spain, Scotland – so that an extraordinary chapter of British ingenuity arrives, quite literally, by the slice.
Tea is served in the room the War Office kept for its quietest conversations – mahogany sash windows opening onto the passing Household Cavalry, a carved stone fireplace, a grand piano through the afternoon. This is where careful words once shaped a war. The ritual The Drawing Room now keeps is gentler: scones and clotted cream, a live pianist from four o’clock, and history close enough to touch.
The tea itself is the tale, told in five cakes.
A briefcase concealing its secrets.
A propeller and a fabricated identity.
A love letter to a fiancée who never was.
Opening hours
Daily 12.00 – 5.00pm
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General information
Contact number : +44 020 3907 7500 or restaurants.london@raffles.com
