{"id":397,"date":"2011-07-03T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T17:51:30","slug":"restaurant-news-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Food news and events July 3, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Italian restaurant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=981\" target=\"_self\">Nostrano<\/a> is adding lunch service, beginning Wednesday. The menu will feature items that incorporate ingredients from Co-owner and Chef Tim Dahl&#8217;s personal garden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to start executing a menu with all of the diverse flavors the warmer months have to offer,&#8221; Dahl said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really get more local than this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lunch will take place during the week from 11 a.m. &#8211; 2:30 p.m. Reservations will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Continuing on the success of its monthly Iron Chef competitions, downtown American restaurant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=964\" target=\"_self\">8 Seasons Grille<\/a> is now offering a private version, called Your Personal Iron Chef. For $50 ($75 with wine pairings) per person, Executive Chef Nick Baertschy will take a secret ingredient and make a multi-course meal for your group of up to eight.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>In less than 24 hours since the fire at 24 N. Webster St., multiple fundraisers were created for the residents (and Underground Kitchen) that were displaced. Events include a benefit concert July 29 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=393\" target=\"_blank\">High Noon<\/a>. For a complete listing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=213573798684996\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how several restaurants on the block surrounded by E. Main Street, Webster Street, E. Doty Street and King Street closed around the same time, and now they are re-opening around the same time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=1077\">Francisco&#8217;s Mexican Cantina<\/a> replaced La Mestiza, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=1073\">Tipsy Cow<\/a> replaced King &amp; Mane, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=1078\">Red Sushi Grill<\/a> replaced The Haze and <a href=\"http:\/\/therigbypub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rigby<\/a> will replace the Casbah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Italian restaurant Nostrano is adding lunch service, beginning Wednesday. The menu will feature items that incorporate ingredients from Co-owner and Chef Tim Dahl&#8217;s personal garden. &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to start executing a menu with all of the diverse flavors the warmer months have to offer,&#8221; Dahl said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really get more local than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[20,16,112,62],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-and-events","category-news-and-observations","tag-american","tag-downtown","tag-fundraiser","tag-italian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}