{"id":372864,"date":"2026-03-30T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372864\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:23:10","slug":"my-afternoon-at-wicklows-victorian-tea-room-loved-by-downtown-abbey-and-bridgerton-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372864\/","title":{"rendered":"My afternoon at Wicklow\u2019s Victorian tea room loved by Downtown Abbey and Bridgerton fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Fans of the period shows have been flocking to the parlour from all over the world\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wicklow People reporter Eoin Mac Raghnaill with Norma Tracey and Audrey Whelan from Victorian Tea Times on Arklow Main Street. Photo: Michael Kelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/793da5c0-7f25-440d-8e94-83dc49382c99.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Wicklow People reporter Eoin Mac Raghnaill with Norma Tracey and Audrey Whelan from Victorian Tea Times on Arklow Main Street. Photo: Michael Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Standing in a quaint Wicklow tea parlour, sporting a top hat and bearing a cane, with Strauss playing softly in the background as I recited poetry to the proprietor dressed in full Victorian attire, all thoughts of the regular lunch hour rush faded, replaced by the unhurried elegance of a bygone era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A sense of authenticity was evident from the moment I crossed the threshold at Victorian Tea Times on Arklow\u2019s Main Street, where every minute detail, from the velvet sofas and ornate candelabras to the embossed wallpaper, tiered silver cake stands and antique serving trolley, has been carefully curated to provide an utterly immersive experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of the period shows have been flocking to the parlour from all over the world Wicklow People&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,5718,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-372864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}