{"id":11229,"date":"2010-01-28T03:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2010-01-19T03:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:06:03","slug":"greasy-spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/11229","title":{"rendered":"Greasy spoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/LodgeCoffeeShop_01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I like a good greasy spoon. <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back I went in search of a good old school diner joint. Haven&#8217;t found many good local ones, often food plated up is basic food service quality. Found a small gem though: I ended up at at the Lodge Coffee Shop in Citrus Heights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/LodgeCoffeeShop_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/LodgeCoffeeShop_03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Open since 1958, the Lodge is a mix of interesting interior styles. Some original mid-century ski lodge touches (A-frame building), some <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/1253\">googie<\/a> (a little bit), some 1970s &#8216;harvest-theme&#8217; updates, a splash of 1990s country &#8211; and a fish tank where all the fish are named &#8216;Dave.&#8217; To avoid confusion.<\/p>\n<p>What hooked me was an authentic Chicken Fried Steak with a really good sausage\/bulldog gravy. Not a deep-fried burger, but a breaded cube steak, grilled to order. Like it&#8217;s supposed to be done. The owner works the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/LodgeCoffeeShop_04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Had a few quiet breakfusts there recently. Ate and organized ideas\/projects in my sketchbook. Nice start to my day. <\/p>\n<p>Lodge opens at 6 a.m. [<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?oe=utf-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=The+lodge+coffee+shop+8191+auburn+citrus+heights&#038;fb=1&#038;gl=us&#038;hq=The+lodge+coffee+shop+8191+auburn&#038;hnear=citrus+heights&#038;cid=13636344801332099613\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>]<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Greasy spoon\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/11229\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like a good greasy spoon. A few weeks back I went in search of a good old school diner joint. Haven&#8217;t found many good local ones, often food plated up is basic food service quality. Found a small gem though: I ended up at at the Lodge Coffee Shop in Citrus Heights. Open since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-culinary","category-design-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}