{"id":541754,"date":"2010-04-23T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2010-04-23T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:46:24","slug":"front-burner-brunch%e2%80%a6at-burger-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541754","title":{"rendered":"Front Burner: Brunch\u2026at Burger King?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3072\" title=\"bk_breakfastapril\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/112-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bk_breakfastapril\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Oh, yes, indeedy. But not here.<\/p>\n<p>The trade publication <strong>Burger Business<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burgerbusiness.com\/?p=4523\">is reporting<\/a> that Burger King has begun test-marketing brunch at stores in Massachusetts and Florida. Flush with the success of its BK Breakfast Bowl (left), the fast food giant has decided to test a menu that skews markedly more upscale than its competition. New menu items include an scrambled egg ciabatta sandwich with cheese, tomato, ham and bacon, as well as a mimosa made with orange juice and Mo\u00ebt Champagne Sprite. But if you really want a Whopper for brunch (and what says brunch more than a Whopper?), you can get one of those, too. I know where I&#8217;m taking my wife for Mother&#8217;s Day brunch!<\/p>\n<p>In other news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ziba&#8217;s Wine Bar<\/strong> has opened in the old Solstice Cafe space on Boulevard in Grant Park. According to its <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/zibaswinebar\">Twitter feed<\/a>, the restaurant is BYOB (or BYOW) until its liquor license goes through.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bobby and June&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8212; the breakfast mainstay in West Midtown &#8212; will close after more than 30 years in business. Owner &#0133;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, yes, indeedy. But not here. The trade publication Burger Business is reporting that Burger King has begun test-marketing brunch at stores in Massachusetts and Florida. Flush with the success of its BK Breakfast Bowl (left), the fast food giant has decided to test a menu that skews markedly more upscale than its competition. New [&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-541754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541754","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=541754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}