{"id":4814,"date":"2009-05-21T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2009-05-21T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:51:59","slug":"justice-is-served-with-a-side-order-of-vareniki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"Justice Is Served With A Side Order Of <i>Vareniki<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great joys of spring and summer in Minnesota is our small proliferation of restaurants with patios.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8221;m glad to see that the PiPress&#8217; list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_12410904?source=most_viewed\">top 25 restaurant patios<\/a> includes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moscow on the Hill, 371 Selby Ave., St. Paul; 651-291-1236; moscowonthehill.com: This Russian restaurant&#8217;s enclosed patio is one of the best-kept secrets<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, doy, it&#8217;s enclosed.\u00a0 But the Cathedral Hill joint is one of the great joys of life in Saint Paul in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not all is well.\u00a0 One of the real signal joys of life in Minneapolis &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeganspub.com\">Keegans Pub&#8217;s<\/a> smoking patio, out back &#8211; is under attack from city bureaucrats who want to assess fees on summer-only seating as if it were indoor, year-around real estate.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bald-faced attempt to shut down the cigar patio, and it&#8217;s further evidence that Minneapolis is a deeply stupid city.<\/p>\n<p>More on <em>that <\/em>story coming shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great joys of spring and summer in Minnesota is our small proliferation of restaurants with patios. So I&#8221;m glad to see that the PiPress&#8217; list of the top 25 restaurant patios includes: Moscow on the Hill, 371 Selby Ave., St. Paul; 651-291-1236; moscowonthehill.com: This Russian restaurant&#8217;s enclosed patio is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}