{"id":33,"date":"2008-05-07T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-08-17T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:14:43","slug":"dining-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Dining Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been visiting old favorites lately, and in every case, they remain favorites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eddie Merlot&#8217;s<\/strong>.\u00a0 Everything a fancy steakhouse should be.\u00a0 Expensive, good wine list, good service, impressive surroundings, and flawlessly prepared steaks.\u00a0 A place to go when you want to impress your company, or when you want to pat your self on\u00a0the back for your good fortune in being able to afford such a place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cerulean.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Located in\u00a0the somewhat precious Village at Winona, it continues to impress by serving up an eclectic\u00a0menu of tapas, sushi, and main courses.\u00a0\u00a0 The wine and beer list, like the food, is eclectic and interesting.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been there a half dozen times over nearly two years and it remains innovative and fresh.\u00a0 My current selection as the best restaurant in the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catablu.\u00a0 <\/strong>Perhaps less ambitous than in the past, but what Catablu does, they do very well.\u00a0 I had the smoked duck flatbread appetizer and it was one of the best things I&#8217;ve eaten.\u00a0 The entire meal was flawless, executed at a leisurely special night out pace.\u00a0\u00a0 The place is beautiful, a shining example of the possibilities for urban renewal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been visiting old favorites lately, and in every case, [&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-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}