{"id":546298,"date":"2010-04-28T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2010-04-28T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:14:01","slug":"where-to-go-on-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546298","title":{"rendered":"Where to go on date night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3107\" title=\"Date-Night-Poster-1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/116-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Date-Night-Poster-1\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/>It&#8217;s Saturday night. The $12-an-hour babysitter has arrived and she might actually wash the dishes and not spend all evening on the Internet. The minivan has at least a half tank of gas. A dress has been picked out. A husband has been told to change his shirt with food stains on it.<\/p>\n<p>Date night!<\/p>\n<p>Time for the parents to dine in a restaurant. Drink a bottle of wine. Order a $23 fish entree. Share a chocolate dessert. Spend, oh, $175 for an evening that involves only sitting, eating and conversation as normal. But this time it will be\u00a0 &#8212; not that we don&#8217;t love them &#8212; without kids.<\/p>\n<p>The AJC&#8217;s <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/momania\/2010\/04\/28\/ajc-picks-no-fail-restaurants-for-parent-date-nights-tell-us-your-faves-and-your-horror-stories\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/momania\/2010\/04\/28\/ajc-picks-no-fail-restaurants-for-parent-date-nights-tell-us-your-faves-and-your-horror-stories\/\"><strong>Momania blogger Theresa Walsh Giarrusso <\/strong>set this conversation in motion <\/a>when she asked me and restaurant reviewer <strong>Meridith Ford Goldman<\/strong> about our favorite no-fail, always-reliable, babysitter-worthy restaurants. Theresa was concerned with finding places that offered good value for the money, and where the staff would make minivan-driving suburbanites feel welcome rather than not cool &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday night. The $12-an-hour babysitter has arrived and she might actually wash the dishes and not spend all evening on the Internet. The minivan has at least a half tank of gas. A dress has been picked out. A husband has been told to change his shirt with food stains on it. Date night! [&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-546298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546298","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=546298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}