On Sunday afternoon, the outdoor dining area in front of Le Macaron Pastries and Desserts at the Courtyard on Lady Musgrave Road was transformed into a scene of pink tablecloths and delicate tea-party cutlery for the French-inspired pastry shop’s Parisian high tea brunch. “My patisserie background is based in France as this is where I had studied and I wanted to incorporate this in a brunch. I decided to do Parisian high tea brunch as a blend of traditional British afternoon tea, using traditional French food and desserts,” Barclay told Food. Barclay’s French patisserie training inspired the carefully curated menu, blending traditional British afternoon tea with French techniques and flavours to create items that were both elegant and approachable. Joining her friend at the tea party after receiving the invitation, Kerry-Ann Watkis, called the tea party the perfect occasion to get cute and unwind.