Tea and Fairy Cakes at The Walk

LUNCH comes in tiers. The slices of crustless sandwiches lead into the scones with jam and cream, which in turn give way to the tart at the top of the ornate cake stand.

This is proper high-tea stuff, served by a sharp-uniformed waiter. It's the sort of experience tourists pay good money for in London (while labouring under the assumption that the natives dine like this every day).

And yet The Walk, Nottingham's new city centre cafe and teashop, didn't stumble out fully formed from a Wodehouse novel.