{"id":24750,"date":"2021-08-23T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24750"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:06:39","slug":"sunday-fun-day-at-the-belmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24750","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun-Day at the Belmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51379772912\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51379772912_0eaa43a827.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Belmont is hands-down our current favorite happy hour destination. They have this drink there called &#8220;rackhouse&#8221; that is like an old fashioned and Brian absolutely loves it.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51381547320\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51381547320_4dccc0617e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes wish he would look at me like he&#8217;s looking at this this drink. =P<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51380774343\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51380774343_6f8c9ce256_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No happy hour trip to the Belmont is ever complete without the cheese course.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51381584105\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51381584105_3d7211e29d_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have tried all of the specialty cocktails they make at the Belmont and they are all very good. The &#8220;calumet&#8221; is my favorite but I also like the &#8220;violets femmes&#8221; (pictured above without the signature flower). I know the flower is just for decoration but this drink is never as good without it.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51379862192\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51379862192_6e1b7a846e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We decided to get dessert this time which was a shortbread cookie with chocolate mouse and strawberries. It was good but I think I would have preferred an actual strawberry shortcake and had this on a moist sponge cake (pound cake?). If only I knew how (or had a desire) to make my own stuff then we wouldn&#8217;t have to go out and rely on the food that others make. Until next time, GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belmont is hands-down our current favorite happy hour destination. They have this drink there called &#8220;rackhouse&#8221; that is like an old fashioned and Brian absolutely loves it. I sometimes wish he would look at me like he&#8217;s looking at this this drink. =P No happy hour trip to the Belmont is ever complete without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1863,3346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24750"}],"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=24750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24755,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24750\/revisions\/24755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}