{"id":305,"date":"2010-10-03T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2010-10-03T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:13:21","slug":"hellers-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Heller&#8217;s&nbsp;Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to trying the closest non-regional restaurant to the flat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellerskitchen.co.uk\/\">Heller&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a>. It&#8217;s not the best location, and previous attempts in the same spot have generally only lasted a year or so, but hopefully they&#8217;ve got a good formula &#8211; essentially a fairly convention bar menu (burgers, wraps, brunches) but with a bid daily specials menu with a soup, a couple of starters, and some excellent main courses. Oh and deserts. Don&#8217;t forget the deserts.<\/p>\n<p>Starter: scallops and black pudding with a cauliflower sauce &#8211; really intense flavours, the sauce was only a drizzle, but worked well. Main &#8211; excellent venison, rubbed with some spices prior to cooking, and served as small chunks, with the centre of each nicely pink. Served on mash with a dark gravy. Desert &#8211; vanilla cheesecake with a strawberry coulis; a really nice biscuit base, huge amounts of real vanilla in the cheese, and a thin layer of coulis on the very top. All the courses were well presented, but the food is the only aspect that feels fancy &#8211; a very relaxed environment and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Need to go back and try the Sunday brunch fry-up, as a change from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toastedinburgh.co.uk\/\">Toast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to trying the closest non-regional restaurant to the flat, Heller&#8217;s Kitchen. It&#8217;s not the best location, and previous attempts in the same spot have generally only lasted a year or so, but hopefully they&#8217;ve got a good formula &#8211; essentially a fairly convention bar menu (burgers, wraps, brunches) but with a bid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-edinburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}