The Harbour Bar & Terrace

Nice lounge bar looking over the marina, tucked inside the Harbour Town complex. Atmosphere is hotel bar meets cafè. Delicious tiny scones.
A bit out of the way but one of the nicer places in around Imperial Wharf.

«Tea sir?»
«Yes please sir.»
«More sir.»
«Well if you insist sir!»
In my head this is how a conversation for afternoon tea should be. It should also involve loose leaf tea, scones, cream, sandwiches without their crusts, fruit cake and biscuits. Oh… and a lot of tweed.
The Lounge at Wyndham Grand, not only has a perfectly British name, it serves a perfectly British Afternoon Tea with a glass of bubbles for £20. It has all the essential ingredients for a wonderful afternoon tea, apart from the tweed. But as you don’t eat that I suppose we can let them off. Also, no one called me «Sir», which again i think is actually a good thing.
The Lounge has had a bit of a revamp, they have sexed up their bar area with huge comfy sofas and soft lighting. It’s not traditional, it’s modern, sleek and very relaxing. The location is a bit of a bitch to find and after advertising that they had «all types of tea» they didn’t actually have the one I wanted, but apart for that it’s pretty much perfect.

QUESTION: Where can you go to get a five-​star hotel’s afternoon champagne tea for £20?
ANSWER: The Wyndham Grand at Chelsea Harbour.
It’s as simple as that, folks. Because of the Wyndham Grand’s out-​of-​the-​way Imperial Wharf location, you, too, could enjoy the epic spread of afternoon tea (with posh finger sandwiches, two homemade warm raisin scones with clotted cream and jam and a spread of individually sized sweet pastries and other treats — too much food for a single person to reasonably consume, I assure you) along with a glass of bubbly at a leisurely pace whilst taking in the view of the harbour and its (billionaires’) boats.
I’m not entirely sure why the afternoon tea is so cheap, but it is. Tea without champagne is a measly 15 quid. I booked a place for tea online and arrived to a quiet lounge area at 3:00pm, with Sunday brunch winding down in the adjacent restaurant. The table was set, and the polished and besuited server greeted me graciously. The low-​seated couches and armchairs were large and cosy, and my companions and I sipped, munched, supped and gluttonously indulged for THREE HOURS.
Service wasn’t without its faults: the server was a bit nervous for whatever reason, but she was certainly friendly and gracious; my first pot of tea was loose leaf, as one would expect of afternoon tea at a five-​star hotel, but my second pot had a teabag chucked in (although said tea in teabag was aromatic and delicious); water and/​or tea refills weren’t forthcoming, but the server would have fetched these things if asked. Despite these lapses in service (nit-​picky though they are), overall, the experience and value for money were outstanding.
SUMMARY: Go here if you’re a local, you want an indulgent yet inexpensive afternoon tea, you don’t want to combat crowds of tourists who may or may not think that the clotted cream belongs in their teacups.*
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*Although I do know that by posting this review the afternoon tea at the Wyndham Grand may very well become more busy than it was on my first visit, I remain confident that it will maintain its atmosphere of exclusivity due to its less-​accessible location.