{"id":690,"date":"2009-07-17T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2009-07-17T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:20:57","slug":"nightwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/nightwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

My review of Nightwood<\/a> now out in the Reader.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t as hard as the Publican blurb<\/a>, but it was close. There’s such a temptation, in assessing \u00a0ridiculously high-profile spots like this, to be contrarian, to pick at every nit. No writer wants to be seen as a sheep, or a shill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And yet — it was really good. Really, really good. This crew obviously knows what they’re doing, both in the kitchen and on the conceptual level. I think the space is beautiful and almost without fail the food totally delivered.<\/p>\n

But, in the name of picking nits, I’ll add one more thing. The other night some friends\u00a0had a more mixed Nightwood experience, in part thanks to a server who appeared totally mystified by the wine list. (When pressed, she apparently dug out her notes from a wine tasting and tried to make a recommendation based on those.) They didn’t really care, that much — at least she got an “A” for effort. But this story reminded me of my server, who, when pressed, could only describe every wine as “food friendly.”<\/p>\n

Which is pretty silly when you think about it in the context of a wine list meant to be served … with food. Where’s the wine on that list that *doesn’t* go with food?<\/p>\n

So, yo, Nightwood servers: Stop calling the wine “food friendly!” Not helpful!<\/p>\n

Otherwise, truly delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My review of Nightwood now out in the Reader. This wasn’t as hard as the Publican blurb, but it was close. There’s such a temptation, in assessing \u00a0ridiculously high-profile spots like this, to be contrarian, to pick at every nit. No writer wants to be seen as a sheep, or a shill.\u00a0 And yet — … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}