Mention: Salt Lake Magazine - A Birthday Tradition: High Tea at the Grand America
A visit to the Grand America for Afternoon Tea is the perfect way to celebrate a birthday and make memories with loved ones.
Salt Lake Magazine
July 28, 2025
Iam a proud cool auntie with mostly nephews. My niece and I are close and have always enjoyed doing sophisticated lady things together. Every year since she was five years old, weve gone to The Grand America high tea for her birthday. We get dressed up, she borrows my fancy (costume) jewelry, and we have tea, or in her case, hot chocolate, and we have Afternoon Tea in the lobby lounge. Just the two of us.
We are approaching six years of our ladies who take tea tradition, and I will continue it as long as she is interested. Its a chance for us to talk about everything from table manners to food preferences, and more recently, shes been discussing her schoolwork, aerialist classes, and her friends.