{"id":671518,"date":"2010-02-22T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:33:19","slug":"which-is-a-better-dining-city-atlanta-or-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/671518","title":{"rendered":"Which is a better dining city: Atlanta or Charleston?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2574\" title=\"800px-Midtownatlanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/29-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Atlanta (credit: Wikimedia)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestonwineand%20food.com\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestonwineand%20food.com\"><strong><em><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2573 \" title=\"Charleston_historic_homes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/118-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Charleston (credit Wikimedia)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>The Charleston Food + Wine Festival<\/strong><\/em>, <em>which kicks off March 4<\/em>, <em>has not only become the preeminent gastronomic event in the Southeast, but it also shows off this coastal city&#8217;s vibrant restaurant scene to all the top names in the American food world. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People around the country think of Charleston as <strong>the <\/strong>Southern restaurant town. What about Atlanta? How do the two cities compare, and how have they marketed themselves differently? This was the subject of yesterday&#8217;s Sunday Column. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FESTIVAL INSPIRES A DINING DEBATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever had the experience of telling someone you like a certain restaurant and they give you that &#8220;oh, -I-thought-you-knew-something-about-food&#8221; response?<\/p>\n<p>That happened to me a couple of years ago when I was talking to a friend from Charleston soon after I had returned from a vacation there and made enthusiastic comments about a popular Italian restaurant in town. &#8220;We had a really nice meal at Al di La, &#8221; I said, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s always such a pleasure &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charleston Food + Wine Festival, which kicks off March 4, has not only become the preeminent gastronomic event in the Southeast, but it also shows off this coastal city&#8217;s vibrant restaurant scene to all the top names in the American food world. People around the country think of Charleston as the Southern restaurant town. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OGW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}