{"id":453,"date":"2008-03-21T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/dinner\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:01:00","slug":"dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went out to dinner last night at Macaroni Grill. Normally, one of my favorite restaurants – but this visit was less than stellar. For one, the bread. The bread at the Grill is awesome – that’s the only word to describe it. Say it with me: Awesome. This time? Not so awesome. A little overbaked and bland.<\/p>\n

Next, the Simple Salmon. I’m going to quote right from the menu on this one:<\/p>\n

“Simple Salmon: Seasoned grilled salmon fillet served with grilled tender-crisp asparagus and broccoli.”<\/p>\n

Now, do you see the words “Covered in uncooked chunks of tomato” anywhere in that description?<\/p>\n

Neither did I, but that was the reality I faced. I was able to scrap them off onto my bread plate (since I didn’t need that, clearly) and work past them. Still “tainted” my fish, but a bunch of lemon juice squeezed from the lemon in my tea helped a bit.<\/p>\n

The server kept breezing past us, asking if everything was okay – but leaving before we could give an answer. <\/p>\n

Will I go back? Most likely. The asparagus and the broccoli were good and the fish was okay. But I’m going to be more particular and insist on a really Simple Salmon.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a busy and hopefully short day ahead of me – better get back to it.<\/p>\n

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Went out to dinner last night at Macaroni Grill. Normally, one of my favorite restaurants – but this visit was less than stellar. For one, the bread. The bread at the Grill is awesome – that’s the only word to describe it. Say it with me: Awesome. This time? Not so awesome. A little overbaked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}