On Sunday, the bloke and I paid a visit to Madd Cafe near Leicester Square. I had a voucher to use for macaroons and brownies and a bottle of Prosecco. We were the first customers to enter for the day, and we had the place to ourselves. Comfortable sink-in couches or tables were clustered around the cafe, and we choose to sit on the couch with a small table at the back of the cafe.
The cafe doubles as the entrance to the theatre, which is currently showing "Ghost Stories", which is marketed as a horror show with laughter. On my visit to the toilets, which is located in the theatre part of the venue, I noticed some dismembered mannequins and mannequins tied up with construction tape! They did not look real, so it was not that frightening.
The decor is modern vintage and "Alice-in-Wonderland"-esque. Roses and a tea-garden feel with plants/bushes and bird cages are dotted around the front part of the cafe. The light shades above the bar area are top hats (perhaps the 'Mad Hatter' has a large selection of spare hats). This is appropriately named "Madd Hatter's Cafe", and I felt a little bit like I was Alice in "Alice in Wonderland".
The cafe serves tea, coffee, and alcohol. The tea is MASSIS brand and loose leaf varieties are available. There's also a large selection of coffees and lattes in different flavours, such as candy floss, butterscotch, gingerbread, chocolate, and coconut. Hot chocolate, iced tea, lassi, and smoothies are also available. I was interested in trying the hot chocolate, but I was "sweeted out" with the goodies that we received.
For the desserts, Madd Hatter's Cafe sells cakes and cupcakes, and there's afternoon tea set menus available as well as the "Brownies, Macaroons, and Prosecco" option that we indulged in. This option could be enjoyed without the Prosecco and with two other drinks instead.
The "Brownies and Macaroons" included five different brownies and eight macaroons. The brownies were light and not rich at all, so they went down easily. However, they all tasted the same and did not have much flavour. I am glad that they were not too rich, though, as we never would have been able to finish them. The brownies came in different "flavours", but essentially they were all the same type of chocolate. We had two plain ones, one with raspberries on top, one with pistachio on top, and one with cranberry (or strawberry) on top. We were actually never told the flavours of the brownies or macaroons.
We had the following flavours of macaroon: two chocolate, a mango, a vanilla, a pistachio, two raspberry/strawberry, and a passionfruit (I think). We sipped our glasses of champagne and enjoyed our brunch snacks. Thankfully, we both had an English breakfast before partaking in Prosecco. I am not sure that we would have survived all of that Prosecco otherwise.
The afternoon tea was okay, and the macaroons were nice. I found that the brownies were disappointing because they all tasted the same, and it would have been good to have different flavours of brownies. This cafe is known for its tea, so it would have been nice to have a cup of that to try with the Prosecco option. Nonetheless, we had a nice morning.
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