{"id":395,"date":"2007-06-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=395"},"modified":"2007-06-17T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T21:30:00","slug":"strange-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/strange-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/561894975\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1079\/561894975_50c370d30f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/561894975\/\">Pasta and gnocchi<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Last night Phyllis and I got ready for dinner a bit late, so it was past nine before we emerged from the metro a bit southwest of <i>Termini<\/i> in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing the area, we didn&#8217;t know any restaurants, so we had to trust our luck.  The first place we tried wouldn&#8217;t let us sit outside (they claimed the police had forbidden it &ndash; I wonder whether it had anything to do with the huge gay parade that took place yesterday too).<\/p>\n<p>The second place looked more like a bar with a seating area on the pavement, but it looked OK, so we went for it.<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis ordered a <i>caprese<\/i> salad and a pasta dish, and I asked for gnocchi followed by a pizza <i>capriocciosa<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I was therefore a bit surprised when the waiter arrived with two pizza plates, one containing the salad (neatly arranged in a thin stripe on the middle of the plate), and the second my pizza.  After we finished that, we got the pasta and gnocchi, again arranged on pizza plates.<\/p>\n<p>The food actually was quite nice, but I don&#8217;t really think a big pizza is the best starter, nor is gnocchi with <i>speck<\/i> the ultimate last course.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasta and gnocchi Originally uploaded by viralbus Last night Phyllis and I got ready for dinner a bit late, so it was past nine before we emerged from the metro a bit southwest of Termini in Rome. Not knowing the area, we didn&#8217;t know any restaurants, so we had to trust our luck. The first place we tried wouldn&#8217;t let us sit outside (they claimed the police had forbidden it &ndash; I wonder whether it had anything to do with the huge gay parade that took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}