{"id":718193,"date":"2010-04-16T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:10:30","slug":"new-favorite-bocado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/718193","title":{"rendered":"New favorite: Bocado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3010\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 235px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3010\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/16-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avocado and roasted carrot salad with cumin vinaigrette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A few days ago someone turned to me and began, &#8220;I bet you get asked this all the time&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew exactly what was coming next.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, what&#8217;s your favorite restaurant?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do get asked this question often, and I never have a great answer. I love <strong>Bacchanalia<\/strong>, but that&#8217;s more a birthday and anniversary kind of restaurant. <strong>Kyma<\/strong> is great, but it has a certain high-gloss ambiance that doesn&#8217;t necessarily match my standard wardrobe or attitude. I have a bunch of Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese joints I really like. When I impetuously spend more money than I should on dinner, that usually means sushi.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, though, I will say <strong>Cakes &#38; Ale<\/strong> or <strong>Pura Vida Tapas<\/strong> &#8212; the two restaurants that my wife and I like to steal away to when we can go out for a nice dinner that won&#8217;t necessarily mean a three-digit bill. They are both small, personable, chef-run and have menus that change often. We know that we can walk into either place, peruse the &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avocado and roasted carrot salad with cumin vinaigrette A few days ago someone turned to me and began, &#8220;I bet you get asked this all the time&#8230;.&#8221; I knew exactly what was coming next. &#8220;So, what&#8217;s your favorite restaurant?&#8221; I do get asked this question often, and I never have a great answer. I love [&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-718193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30PL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718193","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=718193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}