?> {"id":2684,"date":"2010-03-25T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T02:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:39:18","slug":"craftbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/2010\/03\/craftbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Craftbar"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Josh celebrated his birthday recently, which is always a traumatic experience for him (but next year will be even worse I bet!), so to ease his pain his parents took all of us out to a nice dinner at Craftbar. We ended up at Craftbar for the same reason that we went to Walls\u00e9<\/a> for his dad\u2019s birthday, namely that most upper scale restaurants don\u2019t take parties that are larger than eight people. Why this is the case, I still don\u2019t know. It\u2019s quite annoying though, because we tend to be a party of nine, and just missing the cut off is really very frustrating, and means that our choice for restaurants is very limited.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Craftbar was able to seat us at a prime dinnertime, and after eating at Craftsteak<\/a> in Las Vegas, I was eager to taste more of Tom Colicchio\u2019s Craft empire. Josh and I were the first to arrive at the restaurant, surprisingly, so we settled at the bar to wait for the rest of our group. Josh ordered a scotch while I selected a pear cider from Sweden. The cider had a lower alcohol content and was nicely sweet and fruity. It went down like soda, and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.<\/p>\n