{"id":534,"date":"2012-02-26T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/?p=534"},"modified":"2012-03-05T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:09:07","slug":"new-york-minute-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2012\/02\/new-york-minute-27\/","title":{"rendered":"New York minute\/Late February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The almost good: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themermaidnyc.com\/uws\/mobile\/menu.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mermaid Inn in the neighborhood<\/a>, where we booked early-bird dinner with other oldsters who like to hear each other talk at the table but where the Tuesday special was no bargain even at a cut rate with booze option. Maybe it\u2019s because we\u2019ve been eating too many perfect Luke\u2019s lobster rolls, but this one had only the skimpy fries to recommend it: The bun was burned and the meat had zero flavor even though I had to keep chewing because it was like a mouthful of rubber wine corks. The waiter was nice enough to offer to replace the beer that came with it for $22 with wine for $2 more. And he was even nicer to inform us we had arrived just in time for happy-hour prices on wines. The kitchen also worked wonders with my consort\u2019s trout, adding enough accessories to mask its farmed nature. But our shared shisito peppers were greasy, yet again. I didn\u2019t try our friends\u2019 food, but no one objected to the free chocolate pudding. WIGB? Absolutely. There are many reasons the place is always packed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The almost good: Mermaid Inn in the neighborhood, where we booked early-bird dinner with other oldsters who like to hear each other talk at the table but where the Tuesday special was no bargain even at a cut rate with booze option. Maybe it\u2019s because we\u2019ve been eating too many perfect Luke\u2019s lobster rolls, but&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2012\/02\/new-york-minute-27\/\">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":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafood","category-upper-west-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}