{"id":1842,"date":"2008-06-15T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2008\/06\/15\/black-bear-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T20:19:54","slug":"black-bear-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2008\/06\/15\/black-bear-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/2008\/20080613blackbear_large.jpg\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/2008\/20080613blackbear.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 13, 2008 &#8211; Click on image for higher resolution version.<\/p>\n<p>While I was looking for a place for us to celebrate our 30th anniversary as well as Jack&#8217;s birthday, I came across the website for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoeats.com\/blackbear\/index.html\">The Black Bear Restaurant,<\/a> a four-star restaurant a short distance from Colorado Springs of which I had never heard.  The Chef&#8217;s Table (a fixed price meal) seemed interesting, so Jack made reservations.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it slightly odd that there was no photo of the restaurant building on the website, and when we made the drive to Green Mountain Falls, I could see why:  it certainly didn&#8217;t look like any four star restaurant I had ever seen before. Stated bluntly, it looked like a dive.<\/p>\n<p>Appearances are deceptive.  We chose the six course meal, and it was some of the best food I have ever had.  We had fennel salad, which was very spicy; bison stew; caramelized onion frittata; a creamy pasta dish; Limousin steak and potatoes; and chocolate.  I think it may have been the best steak I&#8217;ve ever had.  The portion sizes were quite restrained, so we were full when we left, without being stuffed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13, 2008 &#8211; Click on image for higher resolution version. While I was looking for a place for us to celebrate our 30th anniversary as well as Jack&#8217;s birthday, I came across the website for the The Black Bear Restaurant, a four-star restaurant a short distance from Colorado Springs of which I had never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2008\/06\/15\/black-bear-restaurant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Bear Restaurant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-colorado","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-tI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}