Then the leaves are rolled to bruise them, chopped, oxidised and slow-dried before being blended into Classic Tea, Afternoon Tea, Earl Grey and Green Tea.

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Open all day for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, expect classic British cooking with interesting twists such as Dover sole served with a cider sauce or Scottish mackerel with tomato sorbet.

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Classic butler service was reintroduced, the famous Afternoon Tea room had its original glass cupola restored, the Savoy Grill was redone under the watch of Chef Gordon Ramsay, the lobby, the house cars, every element was fully updated and brought to the highest standards.

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Initially refusing to capitulate to Earl Grey purists, only four months later the tea company reintroduced the original under a new label - Earl Grey The Classic Edition.

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