{"id":22,"date":"2006-04-20T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T01:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-04-20T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T01:52:31","slug":"haute-cuisine-vs-damn-good-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Haute cuisine vs damn good food."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a title=\"Wine Spectator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winespectator.com\">Wine Spectator<\/a>, both the magazine and the web site. I enjoy wine immensely and I enjoy reading about famous restaurants and the various cutting edge meals being prepared in them. I&#8217;ve been to a few really good restaurants in my\u00a0time\u00a0and have\u00a0had some outstanding meals. But the stature of a restaurant needn&#8217;t always be rated by stars in a guide book or the pedigree of the chefs. Case in point, Gunner Buc&#8217;s in Mattoon, Illinois. By anyone&#8217;s standard it would be considered a &#8220;hole in the wall.&#8221;\u00a0It&#8217;s a sports bar with the atmosphere of a tool shed. It sits\u00a0along a main road surrounded by soybean fields and natural gas pumps. You order your meal at the grill and then find a seat. You must order something to drink with dinner, be it a soda or a beer.\u00a0 You can hardly look in any direction without seeing sports on a TV, unless you&#8217;re looking at the bar or the\u00a0wall of slot machines. But, atmosphere aside,\u00a0Gunner Buc&#8217;s makes the best damn hamburgers you&#8217;ve ever eaten. I&#8217;ve had burgers all over the world, and none can match the burgers at Gunner Buc&#8217;s. Just goes to prove that you don&#8217;t need to look in a high-end cuisine guide to find\u00a0memorable\u00a0food. Sometimes you just need to head down to the corner bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Wine Spectator, both the magazine and the web site. I enjoy wine immensely and I enjoy reading about famous restaurants and the various cutting edge meals being prepared in them. I&#8217;ve been to a few really good restaurants in my\u00a0time\u00a0and have\u00a0had some outstanding meals. But the stature of a restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}