{"id":1912,"date":"2013-12-18T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2017-06-17T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:02:42","slug":"2013-best-bite-18-bourbon-bloody-mary-gt-fish-and-oyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/2013-best-bite-18-bourbon-bloody-mary-gt-fish-and-oyster\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Best Bite #18: Bourbon Bloody Mary, GT Fish &#038; Oyster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Each day in December, I&#8217;m celebrating the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2013, posted in chronological order. <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/best-bites-2\/\" title=\"Best Bites\">Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>, or look back at <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2012\/12\/31\/recap-30-best-bites-of-2012\/\" title=\"2012 Best Bites recap\">2012&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2103\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gtfishandoysterbloodymary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gtfishandoysterbloodymary.jpg\" alt=\"Bourbon Bloody Mary with Stu\u2019s mix, Benchmark bourbon, bacon, and pickled quail egg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gtfishandoysterbloodymary.jpg 551w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gtfishandoysterbloodymary-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gtfishandoysterbloodymary-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bourbon Bloody Mary with Stu\u2019s mix, Benchmark bourbon, bacon, and pickled quail egg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s another 2013 Best Bite<\/strong>: I rarely order Bloody Marys, but I was happy to try this one, since the briny mix was produced by my friend Stu (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastingtable.com\/entry_detail\/chicago\/15518\/Dont_have_a_party_without_this_bottle_of_brine.htm\" title=\"Tasting Table\">recently covered by <i>Tasting Table<\/i><\/a>) and it seemed to fit the festive brunch occasion. I loved what the bourbon added to the smoky, peppery base, and could easily see why an entire strip of bacon made sense as a garnish. The pickled quail egg and the rest of the vegetables were nice punctuation marks after spicy sips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gtoyster.com\/\" title=\"GT Fish &amp; Oyster\">GT Fish &amp; Oyster<\/a>, 531 N. Wells St., Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day in December, I&#8217;m celebrating the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2013, posted in chronological order. Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites, or look back at 2012&#8217;s Best Bites. Why it&#8217;s another 2013 Best Bite: I rarely order Bloody Marys, but I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2179],"tags":[12,73,121,173,189,269,586,883,984,1092,1093],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","category-chicago","tag-2013-best-bites","tag-bacon-garnish","tag-best-bloody-marys","tag-bloody-mary","tag-bourbon-bloody-marys","tag-chicago","tag-gt-fish-oyster","tag-picked-quail-egg","tag-river-north","tag-stus-kitchen","tag-stus-this-is-bloody-mary-mix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}