{"id":131,"date":"2009-11-09T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-11-15T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:46:31","slug":"new-york-minute-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2009\/11\/new-york-minute-9\/","title":{"rendered":"New York minute\/Earlyish November 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty good: Salumeria Rosi, where I stupidly insisted friends in from Chicago celebrating a birthday meet us when they have their own favorite places that would have been far less $$$. The reservation team was so accommodating, as I kept calling to up and down the number in our party, that I felt obligated to show up, and at least we were not held to the \u201cneed the table back by 9:30\u201d warning I heard on first reserving. And because the space is so tight, it was very easy to talk when talking was half the point of the evening. The food, not surprisingly, was all exceptional, particularly the bean salad, the lasagne, the Tuscan ribs, the asparagus and arugula salads and the sliced meats. But the portions are seriously dainty, and the stressed waitress was in no mood to advise three neophytes on how much to order. (I would have been happy simply sniffing.) We did get a candle in one of the desserts, though, and the wine was decent enough to reorder. (Points off for only serving San Pellegrino &#8212; our friend needs, not wants, another brand.) In retrospect, though, if I was going to seize the evening, we should have gone to Kefi. WIGB? Probably. But not hungry, or with friends. <strong>283 Amsterdam Avenue near 73d Street, 212 877 4800. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty good: Salumeria Rosi, where I stupidly insisted friends in from Chicago celebrating a birthday meet us when they have their own favorite places that would have been far less $$$. The reservation team was so accommodating, as I kept calling to up and down the number in our party, that I felt obligated&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2009\/11\/new-york-minute-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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":[32,55,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-plates","category-tuscan","category-upper-west-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}