{"id":7426,"date":"2012-06-12T03:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2012-06-12T03:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:40:47","slug":"irvine-ca-yard-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7426","title":{"rendered":"Irvine, CA &#8211; Yard House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1995 &#8211; A dude moves from Colorado to SoCal, decides to open a restaurant that features a LOT of beer and tunes, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yardhouse.com\/default.aspx\">Yard House<\/a> is born. Today, the chain is spread across America, and features &#8220;more draft beer than any other place,&#8221; American fusion food, and daily doses of classic rock and roll.<\/p>\n<p>And they do it pretty well. I met a colleague for a business lunch at their Irvine, CA location last week.<\/p>\n<p>Kute, kuddly, Katie was our server and did a great job taking care of us.<\/p>\n<p>We both had the pepper encrusted Gorgonzola burgers, that are topped with marsala saut\u00e9ed crimini mushrooms, caramelized onions and baby spinach. A great bun, as well, and accompanied by shoestring fries.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the kitchen &#8220;goofed&#8221; and brought me a side of the truffle fries (with Parmesan and herbs) and kute and kuddly katie &#8220;apologized&#8221; for the mix up, and brought regular fries as well. No apology necessary, Katie, and the truffle fries were great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/yard1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7471\" title=\"yard1\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/yard1.png\" alt=\"Yard House Gorgonzola Burger\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/20\/249164\/restaurant\/OC\/Yard-House-Irvine-Irvine\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/249164\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Yard House - Irvine on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1995 &#8211; A dude moves from Colorado to SoCal, decides to open a restaurant that features a LOT of beer and tunes, and the Yard House is born. Today, the chain is spread across America, and features &#8220;more draft beer than any other place,&#8221; American fusion food, and daily doses of classic rock and roll.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7426\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irvine, CA &#8211; Yard House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,34],"tags":[820,2138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426"}],"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=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}