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Alex: When one (I) thinks of hight teas, it’s generally a bunch of ladies sippin’ on some English breakfast as they laugh and scoff down some scones, talk about stereotyping much? There was none of that to be seen at the insanely magnificent Cortile Lounge at the Intercontinental Sydney. For starters, I am not a tea drinker, while I appreciate all the different flavours and what not, I’ll generally never drink one…anywhere, unless I’m sick. So when I heard about the somewhat infamous ‘High Coffee Experience‘ at the Intercon I was intrigued amused and uncomfortably excited. I hadn’t even had any coffee and I had the shakes! The Cortile Lounge offers both High Tea and High Coffee packages but for anyone who is serious about their coffee and enjoys a good amount of quality food that isn’t a buffet, then read on because this is gonna knock ya socks off! Before we began our seating – Head Pastry Chef Youssef Arderdour (who before starting at the Intercontinental worked with Alain Ducasse) informed us that the idea behind …