Bath, UK ~The Roman Baths, and The Pump Room

My dad mentioned that a friend of his loved English teas in the UK. Since our trip to London and the UK was a short three days, we had a difficult time squeezing in an afternoon tea.  Luckily, while visiting the Roman Baths in Bath, UK on a tour, Mike and I decided to stop by the Pump Room for a quick afternoon tea.

Sugar Cubes. Every time I see sugar cubes I think back to a book I read about horses and how this little boy used to sneak his horse some sugar cubes. 

I ordered the Traditional Pump Room Tea. 

My assortment of pastries, scones, and finger sandwiches!

Mike was really hungry and did not want to eat finger sandwiches and scones, so he ordered a ham sandwich and potato wedges.

A love ketchup. We had to ask for ketchup during our tea service.  It was brought to us in a little bowl.

The Pump Room Restaurant

The Roman Baths, Stall Street, Bath

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London~Fish and Chips

Whew! That was a quick view of our food experiences in Paris in a nutshell. Moving on to the less exciting London food experiences.

Mike was adamant that we had to eat fish and chips at a pub and drink some kind of local beer.  Here's his beer.

The customary Fish and Chips with mushy peas with mint. 

Here's the dish I ordered...and then quickly gave to Mike.It's called "Welsh Rarebit" and is supposed to be composed of toast covered in mixture of butter, cream, and cheese. Well it was covered in all that goodness, except I was not expecting the strong Dijon Mustard almost horseradish taste to come with it. 
Mike was surprised I would order it because, your natural instinct is to think that this is some kind of rabbit (the words look almost like "welsh rabbit").  Come on, it's basically cheese toast. Plus I saw it in a cookbook and wanted to try an authentic version of it before I attempted it at home.