1. food and drink
2. beverages
3. non alcoholic beverages
4. coffee and tea

Vintage fun
Aernoon Tea at the Hydro Hotel
Commanding a fine posi-on on Eastbourne seafront offering an elevated view of the town’s
beaches and ocean and boas-ng award-winning gardens, the Hydro Hotel offers the perfect
venue for tradi-onal aernoon tea. Enjoy scones with jam and cream and tea with fine
bone china in its Conservatory Lounge overlooking the beau-ful garden where guests might
play croquet.
www.hydrohotel.com
Aernoon Tea at The Grand Hotel
England’s only 5-star seaside hotel commands a superior posi-on on Eastbourne seafront
and the magnificent white building epitomises tradi-onal Bri-sh elegance and is the
perfect place for indulging in tradi-onal aernoon tea.
Choose to enjoy it in the Great Hall with strings playing gently in the background and on the
last Sunday of the month (excluding June, July and December), enjoy the Grand Aernoon
Tea with Shelley Van Leon and the Palm Court Strings Orchestra. Or relax in the elegant
lounge or on the sun terrace during summer. Champagne high teas and special chldren’s
high tea menus also available.
www.grandeastbourne.com
Baking Classes at The Really Scrump"ous Cake Company, Enterprise Centre
Housed in Eastbourne’s Victorian shopping precinct with a sunny glass roof, Really
Scrump-ous Cake Company sells and bakes cupcakes to die for on the premises, as well as
offer cupcake baking classes and cupcake decora-ng par-es to have a go yourself!
Classes run on a Monday and/or Wednesday evening and a min. 4 people are required to
run the class. You each make from scratch 12 cupcakes – bake and decorate them to take
home! All ingredients provided along with tea/coffee. Or opt for the Giant Cupcake Class
and you will bake a giant cupcake to take home with you to decorate yourself at home, as
well as decorate a giant cupcake that has been baked for you, which you will take home.
www.thereallyscrump-ouscakeco.com
Sewing Classes at The Owl and the Sewing Cat, Grand Hotel Buildings shopping parade
Recently opened hot on the heels of the latest trend of ‘make, do and mend’ and the
revival of the sewing machine, The Owl and the Sewing Cat is a beau-ful shop packed full
of contemporary easy sew fabrics and haberdashery equipment and materials. They are
also on a mission to get as many people as possible sewing, and run sewing lessons for
those wan-ng to learn with simple kits also available.
Open Sewing Workshops available for beginners & improvers - £15 per session – come
along and learn to use a sewing machine and make an easy project such as cushions, bags,
bun-ng, aprons or seasonal projects. Experts will be on hand to give you ideas and advice.
Or improvers can come along each week and learn to make a new project picking up new
skills and various techniques each week, such as piping, zips, bu.onholes, appliqué etc.
Demonstra-ons for beginners are also available for free
www.owlandsewingcat.com
www.visiteastbourne.com
Eastbourne Tea Dances at The Winter Garden
Put on your dancing shoes and spend an aernoon tripping the light fantas-c at a Winter
Garden Tea Dance. With live musical accompaniment, this is an aernoon to be enjoyed by
all – whatever your dancing ability.
www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
Tradi"onal Cream Tea at Dickens Tea Co#age, South Street
Eastbourne’s best kept secret, built in 1719, has been a tea room for over sixty years.
Dickens visited when it was a boarding house. Olde world décor with delicious cream tea
lunches and tradi-onal bone china
Enjoy a Corporal Croissant at The Outpost
Enjoy a Colonel Coffee in a quirky moustache mug at this vintage style café at the historic
Redoubt Fortress. With free entry to the fortress parade ground, pop into the café during
a seafront stroll, and enjoy tea and cake surrounded by vintage furniture, paintings and
photography. The Outpost is the perfect venue during one of the fortresses many
re-enactment events.
www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk
Rock n Roll Concert at Eastbourne Bandstand
Enjoy a rock n roll tribute concert at Eastbourne’s iconic 1930s Bandstand every Saturday
night in July and August. The alfresco concerts on Eastbourne seafront promise tribute
nights to a variety of rock n roll favourites, including Elvis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and
Chuck Berry.
www.eastbournebandstand.co.uk
www.visiteastbourne.com