The Berkeley Hotel London Brings Back Prêt-à-Portea

AMERICAN President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging them to fully reopen the US-UK travel corridor, in light of the effectiveness of vaccination programs on both sides of the Atlantic.

And that’s now looking more and more like a possibility by mid-summer.

So, with caution, it’s surely a good time to consider all those things that we, as committed Anglophiles, have been missing since the lockdowns last March decisively halted transatlantic travel.

Now surely, epicurean indulgences might seem a tad frivolous at such a moment as this. But then again, what better time for frivolity and indulgence than at the other end of fifteen months of fear and anxiety?

And what has become one of London’s most whimsical recurring events is The Berkeley Hotel‘s annual fashion tea collaboration, which takes a staid old tradition, and decisively fabs it up.

The Berkeley, of course, is the storied Knightsbridge