{"id":9090,"date":"2012-10-11T05:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2012-10-11T05:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:21:27","slug":"quickie-smoke-steakhouse-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/quickie-smoke-steakhouse-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICKIE: SMOKE STEAKHOUSE OPENING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>SMOKE STEAKHOUSE OPENING<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a month of soft openings, this new eatery on Melrose, in a space I knew mainly as Casbah back in my club days, had an opening soiree for about a hundred movers and shakers.\u00a0 (And <em>me<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>My friend and I had a screening to get to after, but we happily stopped by for a few.\u00a0 The place is so artistically dark that even Mr. X would be comfortable there!\u00a0 We loved the very clever glass boxes on the ceiling, that each contain three lit <em>real<\/em> candles!\u00a0 What a romantic touch.  They must need a chimney sweep to get up there to light them each night!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9095\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4332.jpg\" title=\"IMG_4332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9095\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9095\" title=\"IMG_4332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4332-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For this particular cocktail party, they served pretty whiskey concoctions and four kinds of passed hors d&#8217;oeuvres.\u00a0 We picky eaters ate only two of them, so there&#8217;s not much to tell you about in the food category, other than to say we enjoyed the refreshing goat cheese filled cucumbers and delicious mushroom risotto balls.<\/p>\n<p>This place has promise, but since they&#8217;re primarily a steakhouse and we didn&#8217;t get to try any meat, I&#8217;ll have to go back to do a real review for you soon.\u00a0 And with the beautiful dark ambiance, Mr. X may even join me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMOKE STEAKHOUSE OPENING &nbsp; After a month of soft openings, this new eatery on Melrose, in a space I knew mainly as Casbah back in my club days, had an opening soiree for about a hundred movers and shakers.\u00a0 (And me.) My friend and I had a screening to get to after, but we happily<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/quickie-smoke-steakhouse-opening\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}