{"id":9297,"date":"2013-01-13T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2013-01-13T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:19:14","slug":"romanos-macaroni-grill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=9297","title":{"rendered":"Romano&#8217;s Macaroni Grill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8366370764\/\"  title=\"20130109_174517.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8219\/8366370764_432b53b694.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"20130109_174517.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several folks from training class decided to go to Romano&#8217;s Macaroni Grill for dinner on Wednesday night. It was a nice opportunity to relax and visit with the other students. I learned so much, not just in training, but also from the other students. I learned about Tabata from Jennifer and nightly rituals like drinking a glass of champagne in the evening to celebrate the day and doing 20 push ups before bed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the obligatory food photos from that evening for your enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8365355741\/\"  title=\"20130109_181022.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8464\/8365355741_d83c4ca330.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" alt=\"20130109_181022.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8365364923\/\"  title=\"20130109_181439.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8231\/8365364923_40b05c4a36.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"20130109_181439.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8366475930\/\"  title=\"20130109_183640.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8047\/8366475930_7050941b68_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20130109_183640.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8366477482\/\"  title=\"20130109_183715.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8080\/8366477482_15186b8056.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"20130109_183715.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:15px; padding-top:5px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/22\/1347919\/restaurant\/Phoenix\/Romanos-Macaroni-Grill-Goodyear\" ><img alt=\"Romano&#x27;s Macaroni Grill on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1347919\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;padding:0px;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The food was really good. A couple of people ordered appetizers to share with the table so I got to try the goat cheese stuffed peppadew peppers and Italian nachos. Both were yummy. <\/p>\n<p>I had the chicken scaloppine. It was so good that I was tempted to finished it all. We used to have a Romano&#8217;s Macaroni Grill in Wichita, but it closed several years ago. There&#8217;s a Barnes &#038; Noble there now. It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;d been to the restaurant and I&#8217;d forgotten how good the food is. I wish they&#8217;d reopen a location in Wichita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several folks from training class decided to go to Romano&#8217;s Macaroni Grill for dinner on Wednesday night. It was a nice opportunity to relax and visit with the other students. I learned so much, not just in training, but also from the other students. I learned about Tabata from Jennifer and nightly rituals like drinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,21],"tags":[1249,1907,2033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297"}],"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=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}