Failed Attempt on Tasting The First High Tea.

I heard the so much hyped about this place called "Brava Parlour" at Arista Hotel, Palembang.
My friend was there last month, and told me the ambience is so cool, almost like Social House at Grand Indonesia, Jakarta.
So, I'm thinking, this place gotta be dope, right?

I searched online about the place, and apparently it's mentioned that they got "TEA TIME".
And once I saw that word.. TEA TIME. I immediately got excited. My mind is imagining about the afternoon tea that I had at Lovejoy's, Crown & Crumpets, and Rotunda at San Francisco, and also TWG Salon at Singapore.

Here's a brief explanation about "tea time". People around the world usually called it with several names; tea time, high tea, or afternoon tea.
Here are some descriptions that I cited from Wikipedia ('cos I'm too lazy to summon the descriptions in my own words);

• Afternoon tea or low tea is a small meal snack typically eaten between 4 pm and 6 pm. Observance of the custom originated amongst the wealthy classes in England in the 1840s.
• Traditionally, loose tea is brewed in a teapot and served with milk and sugar. 
• For laborers, the tea was sometimes accompanied by a small sandwich or baked snack (such as scones) that had been packed for them in the morning. For the more privileged, afternoon tea was accompanied by luxury ingredient sandwiches (customarily cucumber, egg and cress, fish paste, ham, and smoked salmon), scones (with clotted cream and jam) and usually cakes and pastries.
• In hotels and tea shops the food is often served on a tiered stand; there may be no sandwiches, but bread or scones with butter or margarine and optional jam or other spread, or toast, muffins or crumpets.

A few pictures of afternoon tea meals that I had before;

Afternoon tea usually comes with snacks/finger foods type of meal as the companion with the tea.

(Rotunda - Neiman Marcus, San Francisco)

It's usually served in two or three tier of serving. The savory and sweets are placed accordingly. 

(Crown & Crumpets, San Francisco)

Finger (mini) sandwiches.

(Lovejoy's Tearoom, San Francisco)

Now with the expectations according to the above pictures, of course I'm pretty excited to go to Brava, meet my girls, and have a wonderful tea time.

As I walked in, the ambience is nice. Not crowded at all (in fact, nobody's there, ha!). And they played a smooth jazz music which is perfect for relaxing and a long chat time with friends.

I grab a seat with my girls, and the nice lady came to us, offering their menu. I quickly asked about the tea time, and apparently.... SHE'S CONFUSED! What the... 

So I have to described it again, the so-called "tea time" that they promoted in their website. And the lady said that THEY DON'T HAVE ANY PROMO YET ON THE TEA TIME.

Why the heck you put it on your website if you don't have it at all? Then she offered other "promotion" about getting a main course dish, with free tea or coffee, et cetera. NO! I WANT MY AFTERNOON TEA! *sobs*

But to wipe away my disappointment was rather quick. Their "tea mudd" is quite good. I order the kiwi tea mudd, which basically is tea infused with chopped of kiwi fruit. It's refreshing. And after a long and great chat with the girls, I didn't really think about the tea time anymore.

But what I really hope is, they're going to bring the afternoon tea to their menu. If they're not going to, better delete that section on their website. Rather than giving a prospect customers a false hope.

Or maybe I should open my own afternoon tea place?