{"id":226,"date":"2016-09-12T01:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2016-09-12T01:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:26:59","slug":"an-evening-at-manuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"An evening at Manuka"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a Tuesday night treat I was taken to a favourite haunt of Evan & Jesika\u2019s.
\nManuka Woodfire Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a delightful restaurant.
\nI loved the ambience and also the staff were fantastic.
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\nEverything is cooked in this woodfire oven.
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\nThey have a cool menu which changes according to the seasons.
\nYou order any selection that floats your boat and it comes out in a random order as it gets cooked.
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This is a new Ginger Beer to me and it went down exceptionally well.
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\nI\u2019m not a huge olive fan but these roasted olives were wonderful, couldn\u2019t stop eating them.
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\nThe baby heirloom peppers were SO good, and the roasted potatoes were very more-ish too.
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\nRoasted cauli with avocado was interesting – actually this is all making me really hungry – I feel like hopping back on the plane and heading there for dinner tonight!!
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\nOf course Evan\u2019s meal was not complete without his portion of meat.
\nI let him enjoy the lamb shoulder.
\nI was more than happy with all the delicious vege dishes \ud83d\ude42
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\nAnd this really tells the story of total satisfaction.
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\nIt was lovely to spend the evening just with these two.\u00a0\u00a0\"img_9523\" \"img_9529\"
\nCan you tell I\u2019m loving my new scarf – don\u2019t think I took it off for days \ud83d\ude42
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\nEven is one of them is a total nutcase!
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\nWe felt we needed to do justice to the menu and sample some desserts.
\nBut actually the first course was enough.
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\nThis was on the wall – it spoke to me.
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Walking back to the car I spotted this cool piece of mixed media in a random shop window.
\nIt says –
\nKindness Matters
\nthe hope and kindness
\nwe give to the world
\nnot only nurtures us
\nbut it becomes
\na gift for someone else
\nto receive for their own healing.
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\nThanks for a lovely end to the day J&E.
\nLove you both muchly xxxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a Tuesday night treat I was taken to a favourite haunt of Evan & Jesika\u2019s. Manuka Woodfire Kitchen. It is a delightful restaurant. I loved the ambience and also the staff were fantastic. Everything is cooked in this woodfire oven. They have a cool menu which changes according to the seasons. You order any … Continue reading “An evening at Manuka”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,23,36,37,17,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}