{"id":188,"date":"2005-02-25T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/02\/breakfast-in-paradise\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:23:33","slug":"breakfast-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/02\/breakfast-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"breakfast<\/p>\n

Mmmmmm. This is the place I had a power-breakfast with DB<\/em> this morning, which consisted of 1 egg, beans, 2 toast, 3 hash browns, mushrooms and tomato. That was the last breakfast of my 42nd year. Will they let me extend my mid-life crisis do you think? It’s really proving most enjoyable, especially the breakfasts.<\/p>\n

There must be a hundred caf\u00e9s up and down the Holloway Road, but only 3 or 4 I will eat in. There’s a caf\u00e9 just south of Paradise which I won’t name but which I will not enter, despite the charm of it’s proprietor, the good mix of customers and the pleasant enough North London metropolitan ambience. Twice I’ve got the most appalling food-poisoning from that place, once running in bowel-panic from a business meeting, sweat suddenly pouring down my face, grabbing desperately at pants while trying to find nearest available lavatory. Never again.<\/p>\n

Paradise is clean, well-attended, and like all caf\u00e9s around here must be to survive, excellent value, offering a good meal for under 4 quid. You can buy a beer there, good tea and coffee, and a wonderful variety of grilled, fried, roasted and casseroled dishes, with a few choice sweets, mostly of the warm and filling kind, and often involving custard.<\/p>\n

I haven’t told anyone but I’ve been entertaining fantasies about the waitress, mostly of the warm and filling kind, and often involving custard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mmmmmm. This is the place I had a power-breakfast with DB this morning, which consisted of 1 egg, beans, 2 toast, 3 hash browns, mushrooms and tomato. That was the last breakfast of my 42nd year. Will they let me extend my mid-life crisis do you think? It’s really proving most enjoyable, especially the breakfasts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,1],"tags":[431,313,432,780],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-funky-original","tag-breakfast","tag-food","tag-paradise","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}