{"id":23,"date":"2006-11-11T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T23:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-02-22T20:48:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T01:48:36","slug":"the-view-from-the-mountaintop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The View from the Mountaintop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time in Churubusco lately, and I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to visit the Mountaintop several times in the last few weeks. The Mountaintop is a coffee shop, not unlike Higher Grounds or (get behind me Satan!) Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>But for downtown Churubusco it&#8217;s something special. The coffee is quite good and the baked goods are very good (is &#8216;very&#8217; better than &#8216;quite&#8217;? I&#8217;ll let you decide.) The baristas are friendly and efficient. Can&#8217;t overemphasize the importance of efficiency when you&#8217;re needing that caffeine jolt to rejoin the human race.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s are half price latte days, and their tall latte with an extra shot is as good as anything you&#8217;ll get anywhere. Pair it with a chocolate chip nut cookie and you&#8217;ll emerge a better person.<\/p>\n<p>My only issue with the Mountaintop is their lack of exterior lights\/signage. Being an early riser I&#8217;m unsure when I pull up whether they&#8217;re open or not.<\/p>\n<p>(Posted from the view from the Mountaintop here in 2008)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re added some bright signage, so as you&#8217;re approaching on 33 from the north you know they&#8217;re open and you can swing in for a delightful treat in the heart of downtown Churubusco!\u00a0 Oh, but they&#8217;ve discontinued half price Wednesday&#8217;s, so don&#8217;t drive to &#8216;Busco to save a buck and a half on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time in Churubusco lately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}