{"id":388,"date":"2009-06-27T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-06-27T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T19:28:32","slug":"mermaid-cafe-a-crown-jewel-of-the-eastside-nay-of-madison-better-yet-of-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/mermaid-cafe-a-crown-jewel-of-the-eastside-nay-of-madison-better-yet-of-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Caf\u00e8, a Crown Jewel of the Eastside; Nay, of Madison; Better Yet, of Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastsiders are loving their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mermaidcafemadison.com\/\">Mermaid Caf\u00e8<\/a>, and this just in from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasyna.org\/\">Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood Ass&#8217;n<\/a> President, Dan Melton, proves it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lisa, owner of The Mermaid, on Winnebago, guarantees her Sunday Special this Sunday will &#8216;knock your socks off&#8217;. \u00a0A regular at the counter asks, &#8216;Any kind of socks? \u00a0Even wool socks?&#8217;. &#8216;Yes, Lisa assured him, even winter socks. I ask, &#8216;On Sunday do you have to wear socks?&#8217; &#8216;Only if you want &#8216;m knocked off,&#8217; Lisa said.<\/p>\n<p>This sock-off-knocking special, apparently, will be a Singapore Curry, involving local potatoes, mint, and a mango pickle on the side. Atwood area restaurant owners are taking their food creations to a sublime, whole nuther[*] level.    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yaaaaaaa, the sandwiches are supreme. But the espresso drinkies ascend to otherworldly. My \u00fcber-finicky friend from Milan declared their cappuccino to be superior to any he had ever had anywhere in Italy. Mind you, nothing ever pleases him. So the fact that he&#8217;s been singing the praises of Mermaid&#8217;s cappuccino ever since should say something about their espresso eminence!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and, btw, there is no free parking available. Yet the place is packed 7 days a week. Hmmmm. City planners, Transit &#038; Parking Commissioners, Zoning Administrators, Economic Development Gurus, are you taking note? The number one means of access to the shop? Walking. #2? Bike. #3? Probably a tie between bus &#038; deathmobile. Time to wake up to the new possibilities O Ye Powerbrokers of Madison.<\/p>\n<p>*I always wondered how to spell &#8220;whole nuther&#8221;!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mermaid Caf\u00e8&#8217;s supreme sandwiches &#038; otherworldly espresso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,15,18,9,52,204,56,12,11,13,123],"tags":[17,205,197,203,208,199,200,55,196,202,33,198,30,206,201,34,207],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-bicyclebicyclingbicyclist","category-creative-business","category-energy-efficient-places","category-entertainment","category-food","category-health","category-madison-politics","category-places-that-dont-suck","category-politics","category-public-transit","tag-bicycle","tag-city-planners","tag-city-planning","tag-economic-development","tag-economic-development-gurus","tag-espresso","tag-italy","tag-madison","tag-mermaid-cafe","tag-no-parking","tag-parking","tag-sandwiches","tag-transit-parking-commission","tag-transit-parking-commissioners","tag-winnebago-street","tag-zoning","tag-zoning-administrators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}