{"id":733190,"date":"2010-05-25T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:56:03","slug":"iberian-pig-the-litmus-test-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733190","title":{"rendered":"Iberian Pig: the litmus test restaurant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3320\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3320\" title=\"ggdine1127+3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/05\/ggdine1127%2B3-300x196.jpg?resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"Pork Tenderloin with cherry-Rioja reduction, spiced walnuts, piquillo peppers and crispy shallots (AJC Staff)\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pork Tenderloin with cherry-Rioja reduction, spiced walnuts, piquillo peppers and crispy shallots (AJC Staff)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Have you been to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iberianpigatl.com\/\"><strong>Iberian Pig <\/strong><\/a>in Decatur? Do you love it? Or is it not for you? I&#8217;m beginning to think the answer to this question says a lot about what you look for in a dining experience.<\/p>\n<p>Three times this week people have told me how much they love this restaurant. When I ask them what they enjoy about it, they tend to respond globally. &#8220;The vibe is great,&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;s such a nice surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do they love the food? Absolutely, even though one fan failed to recall a single dish from the place. Another loved the meatballs stuffed with dates and peppers. A third mentioned the pork tenderloin (above) in cherry sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Then these people ask me if I&#8217;ve been to the Iberian Pig. Yes, I respond noncommittally. But only once, so I don&#8217;t know it well at all.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, my wife and I live around the corner from the Iberian Pig. We walked over once for some wine and a few small &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pork Tenderloin with cherry-Rioja reduction, spiced walnuts, piquillo peppers and crispy shallots (AJC Staff) Have you been to the Iberian Pig in Decatur? Do you love it? Or is it not for you? I&#8217;m beginning to think the answer to this question says a lot about what you look for in a dining experience. Three [&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-733190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733190","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=733190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}