The Hotel Windsor

Overview

Serving up high tea in Melbourne for over a century, The Hotel Windsor is a true institution, complete with elegant, delicate ribbon sandwiches.

Served out of its restaurant One Eleven Spring Street, the space is adorned with glittering chandeliers, velvety chairs and stretches of Victorian-style carpet. It's a brilliantly traditional space where you can sample cakes, scones, savoury bites and some of the many speciality teas — think peppermint and lavender herbal teas and The Hotel Windsor's famous afternoon blend.

If you're there outside of that time between lunch and dinner and want to have, well, lunch or dinner (or breakfast), the restaurant also has an a la carte menu and a pre-theatre menu to order from.

The Spring menu includes French sparkling wine on arrival, mushroom tarts with truffle oil, lamb and rosemary sausage rolls and a braised beef cheek tart with mashed potato. When it comes to the sandwiches, you'll experience smoked salmon with capers, curried eggs with aioli and a classic chicken Waldorf.

For something sweet at The Hotel Windsor, you'll enjoy honeydew melon, milk chocolate mousse, lemongrass ganache and blueberry-baked cheesecake. Finish it all off with strawberry jam and cream scones, and feel like royalty.