{"id":680561,"date":"2010-03-02T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:31:35","slug":"revisit-the-oceanaire-seafood-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680561","title":{"rendered":"Revisit: The Oceanaire Seafood Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2685\" title=\"photo 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/3-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>A friend recently asked me for a restaurant recommendation with these parameters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Midtown<\/li>\n<li>Going with older family members<\/li>\n<li>Price not a huge concern<\/li>\n<li>Good service<\/li>\n<li>Nothing too unusual or exotic<\/li>\n<li>Nothing too stuffy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I asked her to name a restaurant that had worked successfully for this group in the past, and she mentioned Bone&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I fed all these criteria into the Kessler restaurant Choos-o-lator, made some robotic beeping noises, and came up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.accessatlanta.com\/atlanta-ga\/venues\/show\/54626-oceanaire-seafood-room\"><strong>Oceanaire Seafood Room<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve never actively loved this restaurant, I&#8217;ve always found it correct at what it does. The 1930&#8217;s cruise liner decor is maybe a little kitschy but makes for a pleasing environment. I think it&#8217;s a quality operation. While our Atlanta branch doesn&#8217;t have a lot of impact on the local dining scene, I know that it&#8217;s quite popular elsewhere &#8212; both in its hometown of Minneapolis and in my old hometown of Denver, where it pulls a downtown after-work drinks crowd.<\/p>\n<p>But I hadn&#8217;t been to our Oceanaire in years, &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently asked me for a restaurant recommendation with these parameters: In Midtown Going with older family members Price not a huge concern Good service Nothing too unusual or exotic Nothing too stuffy I asked her to name a restaurant that had worked successfully for this group in the past, and she mentioned Bone&#8217;s. [&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-680561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680561","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=680561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}