{"id":385535,"date":"2010-03-03T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:02:09","slug":"buckhead-restaurant-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385535","title":{"rendered":"Buckhead Restaurant Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2636\" title=\"brwjpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/brwjpeg-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"brwjpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/>It&#8217;s one thing when inexpensive places participate in $25 restaurant week specials. That usually translates into more food than you really need.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another thing when restaurants where you expect to spend $100, such as steakhouses, throw a bone to the masses with a restaurant week special. That means a salad, salmon or chicken, and a scoop of ice cream for dessert while you watch the people at the next table dig into their porterhouses.<\/p>\n<p>But<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brwatlanta.com\"><strong>Buckhead Restaurant Week<\/strong><\/a>, which starts this Saturday, March 6, offers plenty of enticements from the sweet spot &#8212; interesting menus at those places that are just a bit too expensive for weekday dining. Consider these $25 three-course menus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At <strong>Aria <\/strong>&#8211; Lobster and Sweet Potato Soup with sweet peppers, leeks, peanuts, basil and lime; Zinfandel Braised Short Rib of Niman Beef with celery whipped potatoes, parsnips and tender carrots; Valrhona Chocolate Cream Pie with chocolate sauce and soft whipped cream.<\/li>\n<li>At <strong>Bluepointe <\/strong>&#8211; Volcano Roll or &#0133;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing when inexpensive places participate in $25 restaurant week specials. That usually translates into more food than you really need. It&#8217;s another thing when restaurants where you expect to spend $100, such as steakhouses, throw a bone to the masses with a restaurant week special. That means a salad, salmon or chicken, and [&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-385535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385535","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=385535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}