Shoppers en route to Harrods in London can check out the season’s styles as they appear decorated atop cakes and cookies in the Berkley Hotel’s “Pret-a-Portea.” There’s Alexander McQueen’s new silver boot atop a gingerbread biscuit and an Yves St. Laurent smoking jacket trimmed with chocolate sable cr?me. Past collections have included Jimmy Choo boot cookies. The teas include a huge number of herbal and fruit varieties (€68; www.theberkeley.co.uk).
At the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, the “Practically Perfect Tea” features Mary Poppins-themed cookies, cakes and tea sets, as well as sing-alongs from Disney’s hit Broadway musical (€24 for adults, €14 for kids; waldorf.com).
In Paris, models wearing fashions from Givenchy, Chlo?, Celine and Yves St. Laurent mingle at the Bristol among guests sipping tea and champagne and nibbling cakes decorated to match the couturiers’ collections (€30; lebristolparis.com). But no one makes pastries like Christophe Michalak at the Plaza Ath?n?e, where treats include a banana-split macaroon and a pineapple and exotic-fruit sorbet assembled to look like an atomic-age concoction (€13 per pastry; www.plaza-athenee-paris.com). There’ll be no room left for supper.
