{"id":11264,"date":"2014-03-09T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2014-03-09T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:23:24","slug":"firebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11264","title":{"rendered":"Firebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to take Brian on a proper date after making him sit through The Chalk Garden last weekend. Plays are not really his cup of tea. He was a good sport about it, though. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/12845339114\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7345\/12845339114_1c1592edb8.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We started out date night with dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firebirdsrestaurants.com\/\"  title=\"Firebirds\" target=\"_blank\">Firebirds<\/a>. Brian had never been there. His parents tried it for the first time on their last trip to Wichita and really liked it so I figured he probably would too.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/13000209364\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3454\/13000209364_7848b0991e_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of their signature drink.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/12999209163\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7328\/12999209163_7c35e08062_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of our food.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/12999223435\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2652\/12999223435_7bf5002889.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We started out with crab cakes. Their crab cakes have great flavor but what I really like most about them is how chunky they are. There&#8217;s huge hunks of crab meat and not much filler. Just the way a crab cake should be.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/12999377205\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3194\/12999377205_f555c0024d_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their bread reminds me of an extra large <i>pandesal<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/12999966254\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2837\/12999966254_4000f0c21b_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian had the smokehouse chicken sandwich. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/12999591755\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2312\/12999591755_57950bcb26.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really wanted the crab cake salad because Darcy really liked it the last time we were there. However, I had to pick something else since we had crab cakes for our appetizer. Ended up getting the Colorado chicken salad which is really good too. It&#8217;s not as good as my favorite chicken salad at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360wichita.com\/Restaurants\/Steakhouses\/RedRockCanyonGrill.html\"  title=\"Red Rock Canyon Grill\" target=\"_blank\">Red Rock Canyon Grill<\/a> but I thought it was delicious and I&#8217;d order it again.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/13000214844\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7381\/13000214844_b8dfae0059_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:15px; padding-top:5px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/329\/1782273\/restaurant\/Firebirds-Wood-Fired-Grill-Wichita\" ><img alt=\"Firebirds Wood Fired Grill on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1782273\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I ate light because I was saving room for dessert. I&#8217;ve been having sweet cravings lately. <\/p>\n<p>The big daddy chocolate cake really hit the spot. The cake is so huge that Brian and I couldn&#8217;t finish it. I had to take the rest of it home.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t overly impressed with Firebirds when my coworkers and I ate there for lunch a while ago, but I was really pleased with our experience the other day. Our server was attentive and friendly and the food was good. Brian really liked it. Our dinner at Firebirds was a great start to our date night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to take Brian on a proper date after making him sit through The Chalk Garden last weekend. Plays are not really his cup of tea. He was a good sport about it, though. We started out date night with dinner at Firebirds. Brian had never been there. His parents tried it for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[713,7],"tags":[1731,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11264"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}