{"id":382,"date":"2020-07-13T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?p=382"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:24:58","slug":"mint-girl-goes-to-verandah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2020\/07\/13\/mint-girl-goes-to-verandah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mint Girl Goes to Verandah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/verandahrestaurant.com\/\">Verandah<\/a> recently and tried the chef tasting menu there. Here are some of my favorite parts about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. The Flavors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The flavors were very vibrant and came through well. The spices were added perfectly to create a stunning and tasty masterpiece.  This food was familiar to me but still very exotic and on a new level. Paneer and gulab jamun always remind me of home, but when I tried them in Verandah, it was like rereading my favorite book and finding a new thing in the midst of it that I wasn&#8217;t able to figure out before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2.  The Presentation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This was fine-dining at its best. The service was impeccable and the food was plated perfectly. My favorite plating was the dessert course. The way it was arranged looked marvelous and delicious. It was also my favorite course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6151-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Indulgence<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I really liked how they provided special mocktails with different courses. They paired perfectly and added a nice sweetness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-2.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6131-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Freshness<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The vegetables and greens on the plate were all home-grown, adding to the fresh taste of the dishes. They also provided a crunchiness, that made eating them all the more delicious. I especially liked the edible flowers for decoration. They looked really nice and acted as a palette cleanser. A special mention to the chocolate mint decorating the dessert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these elements tied together really nicely and made my dinner at Verandah a 5 star experience.  I highly recommend everyone trying the chef tasting menu at Verandah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Verandah recently and tried the chef tasting menu there. Here are some of my favorite parts about it. 1. The Flavors The flavors were very vibrant and came through well. The spices were added perfectly to create a stunning and tasty masterpiece. This food was familiar to me but still very exotic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2020\/07\/13\/mint-girl-goes-to-verandah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mint Girl Goes to Verandah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,15,41,127,16,1],"tags":[190,193,96,192,194,11,191,189],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking","category-food","category-houston","category-lists","category-review","category-uncategorized","tag-delicious","tag-flavors","tag-food","tag-freshness","tag-indulgence","tag-mint-girl","tag-presentation","tag-verandah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}