The Lobby is located in The Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. You can make reservations for high tea, but I think most people come and wait in line for available tables, which is why it's important to come before 2PM (when afternoon tea starts) as a line is usually formed by 1:30.

The Lobby is located in the common area of the hotel. So once you walk into the hotel, you're pretty much walking into the restaurant. There are chairs and tables decked out in with a small aisle for people to walk across. There's a small orchestra area on the second floor that overlooks the Lobby as the musicians play accompaniment music that suits the mood of afternoon tea. Fancy chairs, pretty silverware - the whole shebang.

We got there around 2PM and were lucky to get a table after only 10 minutes of waiting, despite there being a line in front of us. Some people were choosy and wanted a seat out of the sun, and the workers did try to accommodate them. Once you are seated, you're given the silverware in a very formal manner. Definitely made me feel a bit awkward as I'm not used to eating so fancy.

Afternoon tea set - pretty much what everybody is here to eat. A set for two is a hefty $628 HKD (roughly $90 USD). You can get a nice tea set for around $30-$40 in LA, so I honestly did not think the price justified what we ate. But for the ambience and simply being able to say "I dined at The Lobby", I guess it was okay for a one time thing.

There were three tiers to the tea set along with two tea choices. I have to admit - the tea was really good. I love tea and I could really taste the natural flavors of the Organic Peninsula Blend. I think the waitress recommended this as their most popular, and I can see why! My sister chose something from the Peninsula Tea Collection which was good, too although I liked mine better.

Out of the three tiers, I have to say I liked the scones the best. The raisin scones were still warm when the set arrived at our table. Super flaky and sweet, and adding the clotted cream and jam made it taste heavenly! The best scones I have ever eaten. I saw girls not bothering to eat their scones and I really wanted to eat it for them!

The other tiers were pretty disappointing. They looked nice, but tasted strange and off-putting. The savory sandwiches included a tuna roll, a quiche, cucumber sandwich, and some strange salmon cake. The flavors were okay, but nothing that justified $90.

The sweets included an over-the-top lemon cake, a way too bitter macaron, some weird raspberry dessert, and a coconut dessert. Again, everything LOOKED good, but even I couldn't finish the macaron or the lemon cake. Way too much.

The Lobby Club was around $30 USD. It came with French fries, but the sandwiches were cut without crusts and were so tiny - I'd take club sandwiches from any HK Café in the SGV over this!

The Espresso was frothy and tasted pretty good. You're also given free refills, which is nice. And the waiters will refill your teapot with water as many times as you want, probably why people tend to stay here for hours.

Service is really good for a place in HK. Everybody speaks English at first, but I think if you talk to them in Cantonese, they'll reply in Cantonese. We were even able to see some random movie star who was given pretty nice treatment as he immediately got a table and a drink.

tl;dr - A classy afternoon tea if you're feeling fancy and want the ultimate afternoon tea experience. Expect a really nice ambience with good service, but don't expect too much out of the food. If I ever returned, I'd only want those scones. It's definitely more worth it if you get afternoon tea for 2, but they can also add to the party size depending on how many people want the set. So if you have 3 people, they'll give you 3 of each item, etc. I was disappointed by the sweet and savory tiers, and I definitely think I still need to go to a high tea place in LA before I get my craving satisfied.