Off to Harvey Nichols for a Great Gatsby afternoon tea Pink Lady in hand and channelling your inner Clara Bow, you can then get started on the food. The pot of tea that's included starts to seem rather redundant at this point, as once you're half way through the lobster rolls and "Blini Gribiche" - blinis topped with scrambled eggs and capers - it's easy to feel supercilious towards anything so commonplace. Luckily, not much else is ordinary: the scones with clotted cream and champagne jam, though slightly out of place in the theme of this spread, are afternoon tea staples done so well by Harvey Nichols that I don't begrudge their inclusion by a crumb. The real stars of this tea, though, are the cakes. "Inspired by decadence, glamour and wealth" they are a sight to behold, balanced on their black and gold art deco cake stand like flappers perched on the steps of a nightclub. The coconut and white chocolate macaroons are sprayed with an iridescent pearl shimmer and the pineapple upside-down cake, looking a good few social classes more elegant than its name suggests, is topped with a sparkling, ruby-coloured fruit gem. They taste pretty fabulous too, as does the bootlegger rum chocolate and coffee cake: a cunning way to disguise alcohol during the Prohibition era, I presume, though I'd bet their icing-layering techniques weren't as polished back then. In a vain attempt to cleanse the palate after such decadence (and to ensure the booze levels remain high), the penultimate offering is a gin rickey jelly, a slightly sickly lemon gin concoction with lime cream, served in a martini glass and sprinkled with mint jelly and another glossy maraschino. "Apparently very healthy these days," claims the head waiter with a wink. The meal, for a mere "tea" it certainly is not, ends with a charming touch, as we are served a "cigar" from a custom-made Gatsby cigar box. It is in fact a peanut butter filled wafer rolled in cocoa powder, and is the perfect final mouthful before I either Charleston off down Sloane Street, or collapse under the table from a surfeit of bootlegger rum cake. Harvey Nichols Roaring Twenties Afternoon Tea is at the Fifth Floor Season restaurant until 31 July, serving tea daily from 3pm-5pm. To book, please call 02072355250