{"id":143,"date":"2004-02-17T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2011-01-28T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T03:06:29","slug":"gourmands-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Gourmands unite."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably not the only one who overate tonight. My sister just celebrated her 8th wedding anniversary tonight at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=191\">Paris Restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What was my excuse? I was at work late (only 2-3 hours later than usual, thank goodness) reaching a minor milestone. Afterward, three of us headed out for dinner and I suggested the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidesteakhouse.com\/\">Ringside<\/a> where they have a great deal on a three-course dinner before 5:30PM and after 9PM. Unfortunately, the menu changed a bit and I was unable to get my usual &mdash; Caesar salad, filet mignon, and creme brulee &mdash; for $25. The filet mignon is off of the specials menu but has been replaced by prime rib. Not a bad switch. My young co-workers had no trouble finishing the dinner, and we also had onion rings. The youngest used his 20-year-old&#8217;s appetite to finish off onion rings, a 24oz Porterhouse, and sorbet. That 24oz steak was impressive, and he had no trouble finishing it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s enough excitement for one night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably not the only one who overate tonight. My sister just celebrated her 8th wedding anniversary tonight at the Paris Restaurant. What was my excuse? I was at work late (only 2-3 hours later than usual, thank goodness) reaching a minor milestone. Afterward, three of us headed out for dinner and I suggested the Ringside where they have a great deal on a three-course dinner before 5:30PM and after 9PM. Unfortunately, the menu changed a bit and I was unable to get my usual &mdash; Caesar salad, filet mignon, and creme brulee &mdash; for $25. The filet mignon is off of the specials menu but has been replaced by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gourmands unite.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}