{"id":311919,"date":"2010-02-12T09:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2010-02-12T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T14:19:04","slug":"first-look-west-cobb-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/311919","title":{"rendered":"First Look: West Cobb Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2444\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2444\" title=\"photo 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/26-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried pickles with honey mustard and ranch ($4)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What it is:<\/strong> A casual restaurant with extremely friendly prices and huge portions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcobbdiner.com\"><strong>West Cobb Diner<\/strong><\/a> opened in a former Atlanta Bread Company in mid December and has been packed ever since. Set about 4 1\/2 miles west of Marietta Square, it&#8217;s a part of town that has long needed better dining options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s there:<\/strong> Who isn&#8217;t? Lots of older couples, lots of young couples. But the main constituency seems to be families of all ages. It was big news on Yelp.com and the diner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000374084212&#38;ref=search&#38;sid=508766967.436935909..1\">Facebook page<\/a> when changing tables were installed in the restrooms. The weeknight rush seems to crest between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. If you arrive after 7:30 p.m., you&#8217;ll have better luck getting a table without waiting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2445\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2445\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/112-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fried green tomatoes with shrimp remoulade ($5)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried green tomatoes with shrimp remoulade ($5)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2446\" title=\"photo 3\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/36-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Crab cake sliders with remoulade ($8)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab cake sliders with remoulade ($8)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What the room&#8217;s like:<\/strong> Bright, and really not a lot different from its former incarnation. The waiting area in the former cafeteria line is kind of a holding pen. Best to &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fried pickles with honey mustard and ranch ($4) What it is: A casual restaurant with extremely friendly prices and huge portions. West Cobb Diner opened in a former Atlanta Bread Company in mid December and has been packed ever since. Set about 4 1\/2 miles west of Marietta Square, it&#8217;s a part of town that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}