{"id":514,"date":"2008-04-04T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=514"},"modified":"2008-04-04T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T18:16:38","slug":"lunch-at-the-tabard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/lunch-at-the-tabard\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at the Tabard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either Joe or Helena had suggested going farther afield, exploring someplace new for lunch, up north maybe, closer to the circle. So I thought, why not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabardinn.com\/\">Tabard<\/a>? So there we go.<\/p>\n<p>We arrive twelve-fifteenish, twelve-twentyish, sans reservations. Bad move. We hear the hostess explaining probabilities of seating and wait times to a couple ahead of us, and we start planning to go across the street to the Iron Gate or whatever that restaurant is. But I ask anyway if there&#8217;s any room for a party of three. And actually there&#8217;s a likely no-show of a party of three, and she asks us to take a seat, wait maybe ten minutes. So we do.<\/p>\n<p>And of course it&#8217;s the Tabard, that sitting room between the lobby and the restaurant, perfect for hanging out, except that there&#8217;s no fire roaring in the fireplace today. But it&#8217;s only about five minutes later that we get seated. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Joe and I order glasses of pinot grigio; Helena opts for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tempranillo\">tempranillo<\/a>. Says its like a rioja. Tiffanie L. turned her on to it in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>For entrees Helena and I both get the Ni\u00e7oise salad. Joe has some sort of pasta, I don&#8217;t hear exactly what he orders. For extra decadence, Joe and Helena both order dessert, and Joe and I both partake in second glasses of wine.<\/p>\n<p>Joe is the sleepiest back at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either Joe or Helena had suggested going farther afield, exploring someplace new for lunch, up north maybe, closer to the circle. So I thought, why not the Tabard? So there we go. We arrive twelve-fifteenish, twelve-twentyish, sans reservations. Bad move. We hear the hostess explaining probabilities of seating and wait times to a couple ahead &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/lunch-at-the-tabard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunch at the Tabard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}