{"id":4559,"date":"2011-06-22T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2011-06-22T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T09:14:53","slug":"afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley-piccadilly-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/afternoon-tea-at-the-wolseley-piccadilly-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-01.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a birthday treat, I was taken to the famous Wolseley cafe\/restaurant at 160 Piccadilly, Mayfair W1 for afternoon tea a while ago to fill my face with tea and scones. In style.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-02.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Situated in a grand, 1920s building that once served as a Wolseley car showroom (hence the name), the interior is styled in the Viennese tradition, with grand pillars, arches and stairways.<\/p>\n<p>The car business failed to shift enough motors, and was declared bankrupt in 1926. Barclays Bank took over the building a year later, and some of the original fittings &#8211; including a post box and stamp machine &#8211; are still on display today.<\/p>\n<p>A few years after Barclays vacated the building in 1999, the interior was restored and refurbished and reopened as The Wolseley in November 2003.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-03.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We ordered Earl Grey tea and scones (with lashings of jam and clotted cream, natch) and enjoyed rather a splendid hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some photos:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-04.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-05.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I *love* scones and clotted cream, and these \u00a0were very tasty indeed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-06.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea at The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>More info:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe\u00a0Wolseley Restaurant.<br \/>\n160 Piccadilly, Mayfair,\u00a0London, W1J 9EB<br \/>\nTel: 020 7499 6996<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;biw=1099&amp;bih=678&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Wolseley+london&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=uk&amp;hq=Wolseley&amp;hnear=0x47d8a00baf21de75:0x52963a5addd52a99,Westminster,+London&amp;cid=0,0,6003543345049875234&amp;ei=VUABTpOVKYG2hQfi0_y_DQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_result&amp;ct=image&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CDQQnwIwAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Map<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewolseley.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a birthday treat, I was taken to the famous Wolseley cafe\/restaurant at 160 Piccadilly, Mayfair W1 for afternoon tea a while ago to fill my face with tea and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[102,10,264],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-cafe","tag-london","tag-tea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tea-wolseley-piccadilly-london-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}