{"id":1669,"date":"2007-12-27T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2012-11-13T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:20:05","slug":"we-went-to-alis-kabab-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1669\/we-went-to-alis-kabab-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"We Went to Ali&#8217;s Kabab Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/2149033214\/\" title=\"Ali's Kabab Cafe in Astoria by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2064\/2149033214_68f7a1df93_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" alt=\"Ali's Kabab Cafe in Astoria\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Ali&#8217;s Kabab Cafe, Astoria, New York, 2007 December<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/2149033214\/in\/photostream\/#\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/2149033214\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\">Light box enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ate at Ali&#8217;s Kabab Cafe in Astoria on our last night in New York, a tiny place that consists of a kitchen squashed in with a few tables.  Marty&#8217;s brother, Rob, a frequent patron, has raved about it to us for years.  And for good reason.  Ali&#8217;s made me love food again.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a Bourdain and Zimmern video on it at Youtube.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WBFDvyi6p64&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WBFDvyi6p64&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We walked blocks through sleet and rain to Kabab.  And emerged hours later, happy and satisfied with life.<\/p>\n<p>(Originally published 12\/27\/2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali&#8217;s Kabab Cafe, Astoria, New York, 2007 December Light box enlargement We ate at Ali&#8217;s Kabab Cafe in Astoria on our last night in New York, a tiny place that consists of a kitchen squashed in with a few tables. Marty&#8217;s brother, Rob, a frequent patron, has raved about it to us for years. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[249,87],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-new-york","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}