{"id":527722,"date":"2010-04-14T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2010-04-14T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:30:29","slug":"decatur-dining-doings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527722","title":{"rendered":"Decatur dining doings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2991\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2991\" title=\"METneighborhoods3\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/METneighborhoods3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Decatur\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Decatur<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>In yesterday&#8217;s Wednesday column I looked at how Decatur is starting to move past its kid-friendly restaurant scene and into a livelier scene. What are your favorite Decatur restaurants? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some unseen switch on the zeitgeist machine has been quietly flicked on in Decatur, and this little not-quite-suburb inside the Perimeter is poised to emerge as one of the metro area&#8217;s liveliest dining neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a decade-long process that I&#8217;ve observed from my home near the town center. Soon after we moved here in the late 1990s, word began circulating that a new restaurant had opened up on the moribund and borderline-sketchy square. Called the Food Business, this spot distinguished itself from the handful of nearby cafes with an explicitly child-friendly policy. The brightly colored, three-level restaurant served a thoughtful kids&#8217; menu along with its casual contemporary bill of fare, and stocked highchairs aplenty.<\/p>\n<p>Others followed suit. Taqueria del Sol &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Decatur In yesterday&#8217;s Wednesday column I looked at how Decatur is starting to move past its kid-friendly restaurant scene and into a livelier scene. What are your favorite Decatur restaurants? Some unseen switch on the zeitgeist machine has been quietly flicked on in Decatur, and this little not-quite-suburb inside the Perimeter is poised to [&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-527722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527722","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=527722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}