{"id":24473,"date":"2009-06-10T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.wordpress.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2009-06-10T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:34:14","slug":"atlanta-ga-the-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=24473","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta, GA &#8211; The Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vortex,\u00a0 Atlanta, GA, has been on my \u201cmust\u2026\u2026\u2026..stop\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026eat\u201d\u00a0 list for a long time.\u00a0 Underground whispers, street rumors,\u00a0 gossip have long been around about the famous \u201cDouble Coronary Bypass Burger\u201d,\u00a0 a legend if there ever was one.\u00a0\u00a0 One-half pound of sirloin, topped with two fried eggs,\u00a0 four slices of America Cheese,\u00a0 five slices of bacon, and the bun?\u00a0\u00a0 Glad you asked.\u00a0 A singular delicious grilled cheese sandwich taking the place of each bun half.\u00a0 Yep, two grilled cheese sandwiches for buns.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted with the option of devouring this monster, could I?\u00a0 Would I?\u00a0 Should I?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, turns out at the last moment, someone said \u201ctry and onion rings\u201d, and I knew I couldn\u2019t do the Double and the rings at the same sitting, and when would I be here again?<\/p>\n<p>So it was the ordinary Coronary Bypass Burger, which forgoes the grilled cheese(s) for a regular bun, is missing one fried egg, 1 strip of bacon, and 1 slice of american processed cheese food.<\/p>\n<p>It was incredible.\u00a0\u00a0 And nice pickle!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/vortex-out3.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27\" src=\"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/vortex11.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"vortex1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/9\/121610\/restaurant\/Midtown\/Vortex-Bar-Grill-Atlanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/121610\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Vortex Bar &amp; Grill on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vortex,\u00a0 Atlanta, GA, has been on my \u201cmust\u2026\u2026\u2026..stop\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026eat\u201d\u00a0 list for a long time.\u00a0 Underground whispers, street rumors,\u00a0 gossip have long been around about the famous \u201cDouble Coronary Bypass Burger\u201d,\u00a0 a legend if there ever was one.\u00a0\u00a0 One-half pound of sirloin, topped with two fried eggs,\u00a0 four slices of America Cheese,\u00a0 five slices of bacon,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=24473\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atlanta, GA &#8211; The Vortex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,25],"tags":[530,3663,3664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}