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The morning menu stretches from freshly baked pastries to Scottish smoked salmon and cream cheese on toasted muffins, and includes the Pekoe Florentine (£6), where the expected hollandaise is replaced (presumably with calorie-counting yummy mummies in mind) with fresh spinach and a dressing of olive oil.
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Orange Pekoe, a speciality tea room and cafe in the modern style – all jazzy, expensive wallpapers and tastefully deployed vintage chintz – exudes that gentle atmosphere.
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Incidentally, Orange Pekoe might specialise in fine teas 60 loose leaf or flower teas, £3.60 a pot but it isn't pretentious.
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Likewise, others in my ten, such as Santa Maria Pizzeria in Ealing, Hereford Road Restaurant whose set express lunch is another steal, Mr Christian's, Orange Pekoe in Barnes, or Sally Clarke's Kensington deli-cafe.
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Away from the concert hall he is a very different character: after dinner he eschews my proffered Auld Johnston (that most prized of all Scottish malts) and asks instead for a pot of Orange Pekoe.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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I got Miz Liberton some nice Orange Pekoe and a couple of soda crackers to nibble on.
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Serve with a Moroccan Mint tea, good green tea or a good quality Ceylon Orange Pekoe tea (nothing to do with actual oranges) (Twinings produces excellent Ceylon Orange Pekoe leaf tea) with milk, sugar and little lemon slices.
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And btw, the otter kittehs were named Honey (gurl) and Pekoe (boi) by their new hoomins.
abort!! abort!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Try our Orange – flavoured Pekoe, challenging competition at the head of Flowery Teas; and various cautions to the public against spurious establishments and adulterated articles.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Pekoe with milk and whisky, who does messuages and has more dirt on him than an old dog has fleas, kicking stones and knocking snow off walls.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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