{"id":8621,"date":"2013-02-02T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2013-02-02T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:10:35","slug":"alexanders-restaurant-elgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8621","title":{"rendered":"Elgin, IL &#8211;  Alexander&#8217;s Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(First review from our new Chicago contributor, keep &#8217;em coming). \u00a0Your fairly standard Chicago local diner fare, open early for the local business coffee crowd, and just off the tollway for travelers. Probably does a brisker business since a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crackerbarrel.com\/\">Cracker Barrel<\/a> relocated out of the area.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t vary from the norm, went with bacon and eggs, at 5.99, including hash browns and toast. \u00a0Coffee extra. \u00a0Order was prepared promptly and done to the table&#8217;s specifications.<\/p>\n<p>We liked the fact that there was butter on the table, and coffee refills came in abundance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/alexanders.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8631\" title=\"alexanders\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/alexanders.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/2\/860226\/restaurant\/Chicago\/Alexanders-Restaurant-Elgin\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/860226\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Alexander's Restaurant on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alexanders Restaurant Elgin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(First review from our new Chicago contributor, keep &#8217;em coming). \u00a0Your fairly standard Chicago local diner fare, open early for the local business coffee crowd, and just off the tollway for travelers. Probably does a brisker business since a local Cracker Barrel relocated out of the area. We didn&#8217;t vary from the norm, went with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8621\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elgin, IL &#8211;  Alexander&#8217;s Restaurant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,16,34],"tags":[918,1297,1853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621"}],"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=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}