{"id":30505,"date":"2026-03-17T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30505"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:23:21","slug":"first-time-at-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30505","title":{"rendered":"First Time at Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/55119539598\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55119539598_604b2f923c_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locals, specially West-siders, rave about this restaurant called Twelve which has been around for several years but Brian and I have never been. It&#8217;s just soo far. Well, we finally had a chance to check it out when I went to meet him for lunch one Friday. Since we were already on the West side out town, we figured it wouldn&#8217;t be that much more to go there. However, it really is waay out there. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/55119446708\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55119446708_e73b6d1923.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian and I both love crab cakes so we decided to try theirs. It wasn&#8217;t as good as <a href=\"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30475\" >the one we had at Bonefish recently<\/a>, unfortunately. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/55119337591\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55119337591_bf9053f8c9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian had the French dip while I had the Cuban. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/55118463047\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55118463047_5926d6721a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/55119728700\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55119728700_533054f91c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The food was good but it wasn&#8217;t spectacular. Nothing to write home about. Honestly, Brian and I agreed it&#8217;s not really worth driving out there because we have many restaurants on our side of town that are equally good, if not better. We didn&#8217;t see ourselves making the trek back out there. Specially not coming from our house.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/55119635635\/in\/photostream\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55119635635_f71924e85e_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did enjoy spending time with Brian at lunch, though. That was the best part of the whole experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locals, specially West-siders, rave about this restaurant called Twelve which has been around for several years but Brian and I have never been. It&#8217;s just soo far. Well, we finally had a chance to check it out when I went to meet him for lunch one Friday. Since we were already on the West side [&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":[61,1759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30505"}],"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=30505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30508,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30505\/revisions\/30508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}