{"id":135,"date":"2010-02-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/02\/getting-closer.html"},"modified":"2016-12-18T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T10:58:49","slug":"getting-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/02\/getting-closer.html","title":{"rendered":"getting closer.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00279.jpg\" alt=\"al-fresco\" title=\"al-fresco\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-760\" \/>The quest for good pizza in Dubai continues (bet you didn&#8217;t even know there was one right?) and I think I am getting close now. Today we had lunch at a little restaurant tucked away in the Crowne Plaza hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road. I think this hotel has been here about 20 years, so it&#8217;s not flashy or shiny like a new pair of Jimmy Choo&#8217;s, it&#8217;s rather more like a favourite pair of slippers, comfortable and a little tatty. Well I base this assessment purely on the exterior and the lobby having never actually stayed here, for all I know the rooms could be a train wreck. But I digress.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe pizza was great, first of all they have pork options; real ham not turkey, actual prosciutto and salami; and there is a proper wood burning oven. The crust was thin and perfectly cooked. And as it&#8217;s in the hotel you even have the option of a glass of wine as well. I thought the meal tasty, and good value. Although I have to agree with the Timeout review &#8211; whilst the service was good the food itself took ages to arrive (and the restaurant was by no means full).<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-761\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00278.jpg\" alt=\"pizza\" title=\"pizza\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00278.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00278-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[well done Al Fresco]<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNevertheless I give it 4 out of 5. Well done Al Fresco!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quest for good pizza in Dubai continues (bet you didn&#8217;t even know there was one right?) and I think I am getting close now. Today we had lunch at a little restaurant tucked away in the Crowne Plaza hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road. I think this hotel has been here about 20 years, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}